Settlement information
We are responsible for ensuring recent migrants, their employers and the settlement sector, have accurate and accessible information.
The New Zealand Migrant Settlement and Integration strategy supports recent migrants to make New Zealand their home, participate fully in and contribute to all aspects of New Zealand life.
Recent migrants are those who have lived in New Zealand for 5 years or less.
The New Zealand Migrant Settlement and Integration Strategy (the Strategy) is the Government’s approach to effectively settle and integrate migrants into New Zealand. Cabinet approved the Strategy in 2014.
Our settlement work is guided by the Strategy’s 5 key outcome areas: Employment, Education and training, English language, Inclusion, and Health and wellbeing. All 5 outcomes are strongly interconnected and essential if migrants are to settle successfully. For example:
Well-supported migrants:
Each outcome area has specific aims that help migrants to meet their settlement challenges and needs, and a set of outcome indicators (approved by Cabinet in 2014) that we can use to measure progress over time.
We want working-age migrants to have work that matches their skills and New Zealand-ready qualifications — that is, overseas qualifications assessed and recognised by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), and by the professional body.
We want migrants to achieve educational and vocational qualifications.
Understanding New Zealand Qualifications | New Zealand Qualifications Authority
We want migrants to confidently use English in their daily lives.
We want migrants to participate in and have a sense of belonging to their community and to New Zealand.
The proportion of recent migrants:
We want migrants to enjoy healthy lives and feel confident and safe.
Immigration New Zealand leads the work to implement the Strategy and achieve good settlement outcomes for migrants. To ensure we continue to meet migrant needs and improve services we collaborate with others, share best practice and monitor outcomes.
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We work with:
We are refreshing the NZ Refugee Resettlement Strategy (NZRRS) to ensure it continues to effectively support successful settlement in the future, as well as providing the agility to respond to changes in the settlement environment.
The refresh will focus on reviewing the success indicators of both the NZRRS and NZ Migrant Settlement and Integration Strategy (NZMSIS) to ensure they are still fit for purpose. We also want to make sure they reflect successful settlement outcomes sought by government and communities.
The NZ Migrant Settlement Integration Strategy and NZ Refugee Resettlement Strategy Refresh Project
Together we provide settlement information, services, tools and resources tailored to the needs of migrants and their employers.
Information and services are delivered by government agencies, or by third-party providers.
We are responsible for ensuring recent migrants, their employers and the settlement sector, have accurate and accessible information.
Immigration New Zealand works with agencies across government to provide effective settlement services, tailored to the needs of specific groups of migrants.
We allocate settlement funding across government to support services aligned with the New Zealand Migrant Settlement and Integration Strategy (the Strategy).
We want to ensure the settlement information and services we provide are helping to achieve good settlement outcomes for recent migrants.