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Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove says he has exercised special powers to speed up the process of bringing the family of Qian Xun Xue, nicknamed Pumpkin, to New Zealand.
The three-year-old girl from New Zealand is currently in the care of a foster family in Australia after her father Nai Yin Xue abandoned her at a Melbourne train station on Saturday morning.
The body of her mother Anan Liu was discovered on Wednesday in the boot of a car registered to Nai Yin Xue. The car was parked outside the family home in Mt Roskill.
Cosgrove says he is doing everything he can to bring the little girl's maternal grandmother to New Zealand.
"We are waiving a whole series of things and my objective is to get these people here," he says.
Speaking from China, Anan Liu's mother told ONE News she hopes at least she and two other companions will make the journey - and she remains determined to take her grandchild home to China to live.
"I'm her closest and most important family member, she's got nobody apart from me, and Anan was my only child and she's my only granddaughter. I will do my utmost to bring her up," she told an Australian broadcaster.
But Qian Xun Xue does have relatives in New Zealand. Her father, who is now wanted for murder, had another daughter who is now in her 20s.
He claimed in a documentary that she had gone missing and he desperately wanted to find her. But his daughter Grace Xue says this is not true.
"In the end I come to the conclusion some people are just not nice and I need to move on with my own life," she says.
Grace Xue says she too felt abandoned by her father as he chased his career, and she too felt his temper.
"[I] wasn't heavily abused - but there was slap in the face, shutting me in the bedroom, lots of yelling," she says.
A warrant is now out for Nai Yin Xue's arrest. After abandoning his three-year-old daughter at the train station he caught a flight to Los Angeles and police in America say they have strong leads to his whereabouts.
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