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SA Migration Newsletter
21 / 2022 |
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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.
Billions in foreign investment are at risk as processes in home affairs remain stalled
While long overdue, the current efforts to tackle corruption and shortcomings in the department of home affairs are welcome. But as the cleanup is carried out processes within the department remain stalled, affecting thousands of people and putting foreign investment at risk, among other negative fallout.
• theory, South Africa welcomes foreigners worth at least R12 million who want to settle locally.
• A couple in their seventies from Singapore â€` worth R49 million â€` found it a little hard to take advantage of that welcome.
• First National Bank said, incorrectly, that they had submitted a fraudulent account statement.
• Even after that mistake was corrected, the department of home affairs refused to grant them residency, up to fighting them in court.
• The DHA has now been ordered to issue their permits, and cover their legal costs.
The Zimbabwean government has slammed suppliers which charged it prices based on the street-value of the Zimdollar.
Billions in foreign investment are at risk as processes in home affairs remain stalled
While long overdue, the current efforts to tackle corruption and shortcomings in the department of home affairs are welcome. But as the cleanup is carried out processes within the department remain stalled, affecting thousands of people and putting foreign investment at risk, among other negative fallout.
Former director-general of home affairs Mavuso Msimang has been deployed to help deal with issues and review processes in the department, a mammoth task. This is expected to be backed soon by a multidisciplinary team to investigate anomalies in issuing permits and visas issued since 2014.
• A report has found that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than South Africans.
• Making up only 6.5% of the population, it is impossible for immigrants to be straining government services such as healthcare, the report has found.
• It has cautioned that anti-foreigner sentiment appears to be growing in South Africa.
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than South Africans, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has found in a report.
• The department of home affairs has reversed a decision to centralise the adjudication of long-term visas.
• That plan lasted for only a couple of months, and did not go at all well.
• Embassies â€` previously accused of sometimes endangering national security or harming the economy â€` are now back in charge.
As of 1 September, South Africa is no longer centralising the adjudication of long-term visas, the department of home affairs (DHA) confirmed on Tuesday.
That brings to an end a fraught six-month period for those who applied for such visas, previously handled by individual South African missions abroad, and makes consular officials responsible again for deciding who is let in to South Africa
The Department of Home Affairs is intensifying its fight against syndicates involved in the sale of the identities of South Africans to foreign nationals.
The unrelenting pushback against these schemes continues to yield positive results, following the arrest on Friday of yet another South African national, Nico Ibrahim, at the Home Affairs office in Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg.
Denmark has signed a deal with Rwanda to move the Nordic country closer to setting up an asylum centre outside the EU to reduce the number of people seeking refuge. Picture: Boxer Ngwenya
Cape Town - A deal with Rwanda would make Denmark the first EU member to effectively bypass the bloc’s fragmented migration and asylum system, say immigration analysts. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. SA keeps the brakes on foreign visa applications 3. A foreign couple worth R49 million can finally retire in SA â€` despite home affairs and FNB 4. R510 for 2kg chicken, R160 000 for a laptop - Zim govt balks at tender prices 5. SA keeps the brakes on foreign visa applications 6. Immigrants less likely to commit crime, more likely to create jobs for South Africans, report finds 7. Home affairs has dropped central adjudication of visas, after months of complaints 8. Corrupt Home Affairs officials face the music 9. Denmark moves closer to sending asylum seekers to Rwanda
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