It's been revealed work visa holders can't yet return to New Zealand... because there's not enough room for them in quarantine

Around 10-thousand work visa holders are estimated to be out of the country... and a big group of them want the Government to let them come home.

Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says the Government has the capacity to quarantine around three-thousand-200 people at a time, or around 250 people per day.

He says it's impossible to allow all work visa holders to come in at once.