Small Business: Immigrants setting up shop in NZ

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The NZ Herald has had several articles recently on this topic; this one has info and a series of links for people looking at small business options:

Small Business: Immigrants setting up shop in NZ

including:

Some useful links for entrepreneurial immigrants, recommended by Mary Dawson, Chief Executive,Auckland Regional Migrant Services:

There are a number of articles and reports issued by the Integration of Migrants Programme led by Massey University.These include reports related to Chinese, South African, Korean, British and Indian business owners, looking at their experiences, issues and barriers.

To assist immigrants to set up businesses, look through the Epic website, recently set up by the Office of Ethnic Affairs.

ATEED is a council organisation that also offers support to would-be small business start-ups including migrants, offering a mentoring programme.

Information on what people need to bring into the country as business migrants, intending to set up a business, the INZ website has all the information.

A commercial website that provides good information for people interested in coming to NZ to establish businesses is at businessimmigrationnz.

and a couple more stories on individuals

Small Business migrants: Yuri Volna

Small Business migrants: Lee Chang Woo - Wok N Noodle