SA Migration Newsletter
10 / 2020 |
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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.
Africans in the process of emigrating, have been living in limbo as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world.
Many South Africans living abroad are losing the right to work, receive healthcare and remain legally resident in foreign countries because the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has been unable to process their passports and other crucial documents in a timely manner, says Democratic Alliance (DA) Abroad Leader, Dr Rory Jubber.
The Department of Home Affairs has spent more than R20 million on deporting illegal immigrants.
• a seven-year legal battle fought by Lawyers for Human Rights on behalf of four people born to SA parents outside the country.
• The case centred on the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2010 and how it applied to people born outside of South Africa before January 2013.
• Justice Sisi Khampepe slammed the Department of Home Affairs, describing its conduct in the matter as `brazenly incompetent`.
STERN WORDS: The Western Cape High Court ordered the home affairs department to `do all things necessary` to allow a man to enter SA for the birth of his child.
A Chinese man was forced to take home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi to court after his department refused to allow the man back into SA ahead of the birth of his child.
A case brought before court on behalf of a group of stateless people, claiming that they lost their South African citizenship by descent when the law was changed, has revealed absolute chaos at the Department of Home Affairs, which had to send a heavyweight legal team to the Constitutional Court on 13 February 2020 to plea for permission to have another chance to overturn a court order they claim will open the floodgates to millions of people who want citizenship to access grants.
The Constitutional Court said two subsections of the South African
Citizenship Amendment Act could be read so that those born to a
South African parent, in or outside SA, could acquire South
African citizenship.
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday ordered the department of
home affairs to register the births of four people that it
declared were South African citizens, and that they be issued with
IDs. SA
Migration International
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. South Africa’s UK visa offices are open again â€` here are the new procedures 3. Home Affairs Called to Assist With Passport Struggles for SA Citizens Abroad â€` Extend Validity 4. Millions spent on deporting illegal immigrants, Motsoaledi reveals 5. Children born abroad with one South African parent have right to citizenship - ConCourt 6. Court tells home affairs to let Chinese man back into SA for birth of his child 7. Citizenship case reveals chaos at Home Affairs as it battles 8,000 lawsuits 8. Four people born outside SA to South African parents granted citizenship
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