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SA Migration Newsletter
06 / 2016 |
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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.
Parliament – The Home Affairs department is considering the use of
family advocates to make it easier for single parents to travel in and
out of the country with children, Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday.
The proposed law's proponents argue that fines are not a sufficient
deterrent to foreigners who overstay their visas.
Foreigners who stay longer in South Africa than their visa allows face
much harsher sanctions under a new immigration law, which lawyers say
is punitive and unconstitutional.
A TABLE View father says he is being punished for not having enough
money, and as a result his Russian wife and daughter are being refused
entry into South Africa.
He decided to forgo the services of an expensive immigration lawyer,
but he says he has been getting grief from South African embassy staff
in Russia and Home Affairs in South Africa.
Migrants and refugees seeking asylum in Sarstedt, Germany, line up
Feb. 26 for lunch at the shelter where they live while their asylum
applications are processed. Germany wants to send more migrants home
and sent a charter plane filled with Afghan migrants back to Kabul on
Wednesday.
Zimbabwe tourism authorities have relaxed visa requirements in a drive
to shore up the tourism sector, following a report ranking the 27 out
of 52 countries on the continent's visa openness index by the African
Development Bank (AfDB).
Fines for expired visas not working…
Now that Parliament has resumed it will not be long before for the
Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs considers public comment and
input on amendments to the Immigration Act re-defining what the
Department of Home Affairs (DHA) terms as "inadequate sanction on
foreign persons who remain in South Africa after their visas have
expired".
The Committee is responding to the fact that it is the Minister`s
opinion that fines on foreigners who overstay their welcome were not
serving as a sufficient deterrent to cease the regular practice of
non-residents to continue their stay beyond the expiry date of their visa.
Under apartheid, most married women in South Africa were regarded in
law as minors, under the guardianship of their male relatives or their
husbands. New laws since 1994 set out to change that. But are the new
laws working? Prof. Chuma Himonga, the National Research Foundation
Chair in Customary Law and Elena Moore of the University of Cape Town
conducted a study to find out.
Their lives have come to a halt as a result of the long wait.
UVONGO man Dave Burton has been battling for two years to get a
required `vault copy` of a birth certificate for his seven-year-old
daughter before the family can go overseas. SA
Migration International
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Home Affairs looking to make travelling easier for tourists - Minister 3. Heavy hand on visa laws 4. Visa frustration for wife, couple`s daughter 5. Discouraged By Delays In Germany, Some Migrants Opt To Return Home 6. Zimbabwe: New visa regulations to boost tourism 7. Home Affairs gets tough on expired visas 8. South Africa: Customary Marriage - Is the Law Working? 9. Trapped in SA by Home Affairs
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