Entrepreneur Category
To be eligible for residence in New Zealand under our Entrepreneur Category, you need to have successfully established, and be self-employed or working in, a business that is benefiting New Zealand.
You may have applied for, and gained, a Long Term Business Visa or Permit so that you could establish the business, and now wish to apply for residence. Or you may have held a Work Permit granted under another category that allowed you to establish your own business and you now want to apply for residence.
If so, you:
must have established, purchased, or made a substantial investment of at least 25 per cent in a business operating in New Zealand
must have been self employed or, if you’re a part-owner, have worked, in that business for two years before you apply for residence as an entrepreneur
or any partner or children who are with you must not have sought social welfare assistance.
This is what I understand is the situation.
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