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While many New Zealand citizens and permanent residents are taking the opportunity for a few days of relaxation after a tough year, thousands of migrants are still struggling to cope with a pandemic which has thrown their lives into disarray. Others in this group of nearly 200,000 people are in debt, desperate for cash, distressed their friends on work visas have been locked out, distraught at the prospect of “temporariness” without end, and facing severe mental strain because of the pressure they’re under. ‘It’s just getting really hard’ Fifteen-year-old Mehak Sehgal is spending most of her holiday wandering around the house trying not to remember her Dad.