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SA Migration Newsletter
11 / 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.
JOHANNESBURG – Lesotho nationals living in South Africa encouraged to
apply for special permit.
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba visited the Midrand Lesotho
Special Permit Facilitation and Application Centre to hand out permits
to applicants.
Five additional visa application centers have been opened in China.
The Department of Home Affairs has opened five additional centers in
China, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba announced on Wednesday.
Concern over withdrawal of rights of asylum seekers and refugees
Immigration lawyers have accused the Department of Home Affairs of
being in contempt of a High Court order. This comes after the
department withdrew an instruction allowing asylum seekers and
refugees to apply for permanent residence without giving up their
asylum or refugee status. The Department also withdrew an instruction
allowing asylum seekers and refugees to apply for temporary residence
without a valid passport.
On Friday‚ 34 imams in Gauteng graduated as marriage officers‚ which
allows them to perform the ceremony in terms of the Marriage Act and
confers legal status on these unions.
The Cape Town High Court on Friday ordered the Department of Home
Affairs to renew asylum seeker permits of refugees whose applications
it had refused because they initially applied at another refugee
reception office.
The Home Affairs database system that manages refugee and asylum
documentation has been down for almost two weeks across the country.
It will be exactly 27 years after gaining independence that Namibia
will finally phase out the usage and presence of the old South West
Africa/Namibia identification document (ID).
15 suspects including the deputy director of the Department of Home
Affairs in Musina, Limpopo have been arrested on Thursday for issuing
false documents. Photo: Supplied / Hawks SA
Migration International
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Lesotho nationals can now apply for a Lesotho Special Permit 3. Additional visa centres opened in China 4. Home Affairs to be taken to court 5. More imams qualify as civil marriage officers 6. Asylum seekers win right to renew permits in Cape Town 7. Broken Home Affairs system leaves refugees stranded 8. SWA ID to finally phase out in 2017 9. Hawks arrest corrupt SA officials in Beitbridge for document fraud
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