His family are committed to staying until April, but he told reporters on Thursday that his partner will lose her job if she is not back by then.
Maumalo made a tongue-in-cheek request of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern but with an element of reality given his family's predicament.
"If you're listening Jacinda can you open up the borders please?"
“Fingers crossed the borders do open up, and we can come back, and she can go back to work,” Maumalo said.
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Ken Maumalo is hopeful the Warriors will be back playing home games at Mt Smart Stadium post-April 2021.