Residence permit renewed after she had threatened

Source: By Jeanne Marie Versluis, 17/07/2015

Mkuseli Apleni, director general (DG) of the interior, had to be
threatened with arrest before the Polish woman from a South African
businessman could get extend her temporary residence permit.


Dagmara Fraczek Odendaal Photo: Facebook

The Pretoria High Court also Wednesday a criminal order of costs
imposed on the Department of Home Affairs.

This is because Dagmara Fraczek Odendaal (29) three months ago
obtained a court order against the department that were not met.

She is married to Julian Odendaal (38), COO of the Spur restaurant and
fast-food group Captain DoRegos.

Judge Billy Mothle to extend the department ordered on 15 April to
decide within two weeks Dagmara's appeal against the refusal of her
temporary residence permit.

This did not happen.

Elria McMenamin of the law firm McMenamin Van Huyssteen & Botha
Incorporated in Pretoria, their lawyer said only after the couple
submitted the application to the DG in contempt of that court to allow
convicted and allow him to 90 days imprisonment sentence, the
department extended the permit.

Dagmara said in court documents she and Julian met in Britain when he
was a Spur Steak Ranch opened there.

She later came to South Africa. She was in South Africa is based on a
relative's permit.

Before the permit in May last year would decline, could do his
application for extension thereof because its South African work and
her partner a South African.

The department refused to renew the permit and said there were no
documents proving that she and Julian live together and how their
financial responsibilities shared.

The couple McMenamin go speak to appeal the department's decision. The
couple, whose son was born in December last year, said the department
also refused to register his birth due to the pending appeal.

His birth was finally registered in May as a direct result of Mothle's
court in April.

In the appeal, the couple presented their marriage certificate and
wedding photos. Dagmara's vehicle registration certificate and her
husband's medical card, which indicates she is a beneficiary of
medical aid, was also presented.

Julian's tax certificate is presented according Dagmara a beneficiary
of a life insurance policy.

They also wedding photographs submitted to the court.

According Dagmara she and her husband "extreme frustration" experience
because of the department's slowness to her immigration case "serious
and professional manner."