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SA Migration Newsletter
14 / 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.
It has taken four years of legal battles �` but now, if you were born in South Africa to foreign parents, you can apply for citizenship. It has been an “agonizing journey” for those who consider South Africa to be their only home.
Although you do not have to use a registered migration agent to lodge your visa application, they might be able to help you if your case is complex or you require immigration assistance.
Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has bemoaned South Africa`s treatment of undocumented immigrants.
Motlanthe said George Bizos had no citizenship and remained stateless for 31 years after the South African government denied him citizenship.
The Public Servants Association of SA has lashed out at the department of home affairs for suspending a senior bureaucrat involved in investigating foreign nationals who allegedly obtained SA citizenship fraudulently.
The Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill seeks to expunge certain criminal records that result from an admission of guilt payment.
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola said the Covid-19 pandemic put the brakes on the introduction of the legislation.*
Concerns are growing about the number of refugees’ and asylum seekers’ documents expiring at the end of October. The Department of Home Affairs has not said how it intends dealing with the disruption caused by Covid-19, insofar as this paperwork is concerned.
The Scalabrini Centre in Cape Town has written to home affairs asking for the department’s plan regarding documents held by refugees that are on the point of expiring.
South Africans abroad are facing a passport renewal nightmare.
SAPeople editor Jenni Baxter sat down with Adrian Roos MP (DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs) and Justin Adams (DA Abroad UK and Europe Chairperson) to discuss the critical situation SA citizens abroad are facing in obtaining their South African passports from Home Affairs and the SA embassies.To assist South Africans abroad the DA, DA Abroad and SAPeople are petitioning the Minister of Home Affairs.
Some of the points raised in the discussion include:
On 17 June 2020, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, represented by Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc, will be heard in the Western Cape High Court regarding certain sections of South Africa’s recently-changed, controversial refugee laws. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. ConCourt: Children Born in South Africa to Foreign Parents Can Apply For Citizenship 3. Why would I use a registered migration agent?/ Practitioner? 4. Former president Kgalema Motlanthe criticises SA`s treatment of undocumented immigrants 5. Home Affairs suspends senior official probing allegedly dodgy citizenships 6. Pay up and your criminal record for some offences could be `expunged`, proposes new law 7. Huge number of refugee documents set to expire soon 8. Nightmare Facing South Africans Abroad with Passport Renewals 9. Scalabrini’s ‘abandonment’ court case challenges constitutionality of South African refugee laws
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