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Breaking News !!! â€` online renewal of refugee status and asylum seeker permits /visas

Source: DHA, 26/03/2021

The Directions are hereby amended by the substitution for the date 31 March 2021 referred to in these paragraphs, of the date 30 June 2021, as the date until which the validity of visas and permits is extended
Home Affairs have published the most recent Directions `17H. SERVICES TO BE RENDERED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS UNDER ALERT LEVEL 1

and they have advised â€œ online renewal of refugee status and asylum seeker permits /visas.`

AMENDMENT OF DIRECTIONS ISSUED IN TERMS OF REGULATION 4(8) AND (10) OF THE
REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 27(2) OF THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACT, 2002
(ACT NO. 57 OF 2002): MEASURES TO PREVENT AND COMBAT THE SPREAD OF COVID -19
I, Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of Home Affairs, having issued Directions published
in Government Gazette No. 43162, Government Notice No. 416 of 26 March 2020, as amended,
hereby issue the Directions set out in the Schedule in order to prevent and combat the spread of
COV -19.
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