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IMPENDING AMENDMENTS TO THE IMMIGRATION ACT AND REGULATIONS

Source: Samigration, 13/02/2019

The White Paper on Home Affairs is part of a Parliamentary process
to reformulate Immigration policy for the Republic of South
Africa.

The document therefore only deals with Policy issues so as to
create a platform for short to medium term planning within the
Visa sphere.

It therefore deals with technical issues surrounding the vision
and scope of the Department of Home Affairs and it will be
interesting to see what type of inputs are made by stakeholders in
this regard. We will then update this aspect in a later
newsletter.

Important to also note that formulated Immigration Policy dictates
the basis, in many ways, for reformulated Immigration Law and
Regulation.

The indications are, as per media statements last year 2018, that
there will be changes to the Immigration Act and Regulations
during the first portion of 2019. At this stage it is impossible
to predict, save for what is stated hereunder, what those changes
will actually be.

One of the changes however, that has been announced in the Media
is that certain of the trades, professions and occupations listed
in the Critical Skills Visa list will be amended and supplemented
with an expected Gazetting of the aforesaid ostensibly during
April 2019.

Early indications, also based on Media information is that certain
categories of professions will be removed from the Critical Skills
Visa list with one of the first casualties to be that of Corporate
General Managers.

As soon as further detail becomes available we will do an updated
newsletter, in this regard.

It is welcome to note that certain categories have in fact been
listed to be deleted from the list and these include, inter alia,
Sheep Shearers and Jewellery Makers.

Word coming down the pipeline is that Maths and Science teachers
are to be reintegrated as a Critical Skills Profession and will be
re-introduced onto the list.

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