Ne­ces­si­ty is the moth­er of in­ven­tion.

So when there were is­sues sur­round­ing the first day of reg­is­tra­tion for Venezue­lan mi­grants in this coun­try on Fri­day, a busi­ness op­por­tu­ni­ty arose.

And when that op­por­tu­ni­ty knocked, “Copy­man” an­swered.

As his alias im­plies “Copy­man” pro­vides copy­ing, as well as print­ing ser­vices, for the mi­grants.

He de­clined to give his re­al name to Guardian Me­dia dur­ing an in­ter­view on Sun­day, but told us we can call him “Copy­man.”

Copy­man’s mo­bile of­fice was yes­ter­day set up in­side an SUV parked across the road from the Queen’s Park Oval on Have­lock Street in St Clair, where the Venezue­lan reg­is­tra­tion process was tak­ing place.

His of­fice has been op­er­a­tional since 4 am on Sat­ur­day.

And bar­ring any prob­lems with the po­lice, he hopes to be there every day un­til the reg­is­tra­tion process of Venezue­lan mi­grants is com­plet­ed.

“Based on the news re­ports I heard the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty say there were teething prob­lems with the reg­is­tra­tion,” he said.

“And I know a lot of these im­mi­grants do not ac­tu­al­ly have the fa­cil­i­ties to get the stuff like print­ing done and I know they would en­counter lit­tle stum­bling blocks down here, so what I de­cid­ed to do was set up a lit­tle mo­bile of­fice with every­thing, so I would be ac­ces­si­ble and I would be able to fa­cil­i­tate them by print­ing the forms and stuff like that,” he said.

When the Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the area yes­ter­day Copy­man’s mo­bile of­fice was packed with mi­grants lin­ing up to ac­cess his ser­vices.

“I do it at a small cost be­cause ob­vi­ous­ly, you know I have to use sta­tionery and stuff like that,” he said.

When he spoke to Guardian Me­dia, Copy­man es­ti­mat­ed that he had served some 900 mi­grants.

He had about 400 cus­tomers on Sat­ur­day and an­oth­er 500 yes­ter­day.

Yes­ter­day he ex­tend­ed his mo­bile of­fice by in­clud­ing a tent for the mi­grants to shel­ter from the sun and the fore­cast rain.

He has plans for fur­ther im­prove­ments.

“As long as the po­lice do not dis­turb me from here I am plan­ning to im­pro­vise and prob­a­bly make it a lit­tle more com­fort­able be­cause it is a bit te­dious stand­ing all day so I might set up a ta­ble and make it a bit eas­i­er,” he said.

Copy­man re­clined the back seat of the ve­hi­cle and set up a desk­top, com­plete with Wi-Fi there.

He has a print­er and copy­ing ma­chine in the trunk area, as well as a lap­top on the front pas­sen­ger seat for the mi­grants to com­plete their reg­is­tra­tion forms and ac­cess the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion’s web­site.

Be­cause he is able to speak Span­ish the lan­guage bar­ri­er has not been a hin­drance, he said.

“If this was not be­ing done a lot of peo­ple would have left frus­trat­ed and have to come back. This helps cre­ate smooth sail­ing for them,” Copy­man said.