Feleti Tu’akalau has been a chef for 22 years.
After moving to New Zealand from Tonga, he met his wife and were both living in Auckland as overstayers.
He says living as an overstayer was like being in prison, locked away from all the opportunities that New Zealand had to offer.
“People look at you as a different person but from my experience, you have to treat people the same. At the end of the day we’re all working for our own lives.”
