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SA Migration Newsletter
14 / 2018 |
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 SA Migration
International was created out of the need for a
specialist organization to assist people wishing to immigrate,
volunteer, work, bring family, study or open businesses in South
Africa.
South Africa’s cabinet decided to loosen visa rules and scrap a
controversial travel requirement for children as it seeks to attract
more investment and tourists, according to two people familiar with
the matter.
The measures are among a series of initiatives to be announced by
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday as he intensifies efforts to
revive economic growth, said the people who asked not to be identified
because the information isn’t public yet.
If ever there was a perfect example of South Africa requiring a
burning platform before taking decisive action on the economy, it’s
encapsulated in Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba’s eventual
climbdown on some of the more damaging elements of the destructive
visa regime he implemented on his first sojourn at that department.
It has taken Gigaba three years to implement just some changes to the
visa regime which, as tourism and business lobby groups have pointed
out from the start, are damaging to the economy.
The failure to implement electronic visas will continue to cost the
sector by making it more difficult to attract visitors to South
Africa. Figures provided since the rigorous and ludicrous visa
regulations were introduced is proof of the devastating impact it has
on the South African economy.
In a country like South Africa, facing the problems that we do, there
are issues that politicians should mention, discuss and handle with
extreme care. The issue of non-South Africans, who are often referred
to as “foreign nationals” or “illegal immigrants” is certainly one of
them.
South African Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba today announced
amendments to the unabridged birth certificate and visa regulations.
Here`s a round-up of the changes.
Is history repeating itself with unabridged birth certificates?
South Africa faces an embarrassment of spectacular proportions as
publicity about the new birth certificate regime gives the impression
that immigration officials are relaxing requirements. Irrespective of
what the officials might do in SA, it is at airline check-in desks
overseas where things will implode. The publicity could lead to
tourists in large numbers arriving at airports and being denied
boarding by airlines, who have to follow the letter of the law as
gazetted in 2014, until it is actually amended.
Minister of home affairs, Malusi Gigaba, has confirmed that his
department’s information and communication technology system is
synchronised with the South African Police Service’s systems for
biometric identification.
In a recent parliamentary Q&A session, Gigaba said that the SAPS have
access to the National Identification System (HANIS) system via the
interface between Integrated Justice System (IJS) and the Department
of Home Affairs (DHA).
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured potential investors that South
Africa is working hard to provide a conducive environment for investors. SA
Migration International
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. More details on South Africa’s new visa rules revealed 3. Why Gigaba’s humiliating visa climbdown does not go far enough 4. Making a case for electronic visas 5. As more parties embrace a tough line on immigration, xenophobia becomes a mainstream political tool 6. Round-up of SA unabridged birth certificate and visa amendments 7. WARNING: Do not tell clients birth certificate regs have been relaxed 8. Home Affairs confirms it’s sharing data with the SAPS �` this is the information that is being stored 9. SA provides fertile ground for investment
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