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Deadline looms for Lesotho nationals living in SA

Source: SABC, 21/09/2016

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba is calling for Basotho nationals
living in SA to regularise their stay by 30 September.(SABC)
Undocumented Lesotho citizens living in South Africa have been urged
to take advantage of the remaining days to regularise their stay in
South Africa before the deadline.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says residents have until the end
of September to submit applications.

The Lesotho permit initiative is a special dispensation for Lesotho
nationals who work‚ study or do business in South Africa and arrived
in the country before 30 September 2015.

The permit initiative was launched in February 2016 and will expire in
December 2019. Gigaba says they have simplified the application process.

" We have even taken a step further of allowing the Lesotho government
to establish their mobile solutions here in South Africa in the office
of the visa facilitations so that the Basotho nationals who do not
have smart ID cards from Lesotho and passports can submit their
applications whilst in South Africa without having to return to
Lesotho, those Basotho who do not yet have passports can submit their
applications if they meet all the other requirements , if they have
their Lesotho ID cards , have police clearances, proof of employment
or study or conductive business."

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