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SA Migration Newsletter
07 / 2024 |
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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.
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has lost another battle over blocking South African IDs arbitrarily after the South Gauteng High Court ordered the department to unblock the identity numbers belonging to a man residing in Eikenhoff, south of Johannesburg. The 42-year-old said it had affected his life as the banks suspended his accounts into which his salary was deposited.
The blocking of IDs began in May 2012 when the department started a campaign to address the issue of duplicate IDs on the National Population Register.
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has gone to court to oppose a bid by Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to appeal against a ruling that he may not terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) programme.
The Foundation has filed papers in the Constitutional Court opposing an application by the Minister for leave to appeal against a Pretoria high court ruling which found his decision to be unlawful and unconstitutional. The Foundation says the unlawfulness of Motsoaledi’s decision to stop the ZEP had been determined on undisputed “common cause” facts which simply cannot be appealed.
Mzansi’s youth population is growing rapidly and soon all 16-year olds must possess a South African smart ID card. According to Worldometer, South Africa is home to just over 60-million people (as of June 2023). Roughly 20 million of these are younger than 16-years of age and will need a South African smart ID card.
Mzansi’s youth population is growing rapidly and soon all 16-year olds must possess a South African smart ID card. According to Worldometer, South Africa is home to just over 60-million people (as of June 2023). Roughly 20 million of these are younger than 16-years of age and will need a South African smart ID card.
Minister of Home Affairs vows to investigate flaws allowing crocodiles into the country with fraudulent documents
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the days of “crocodiles” lingering in the country with fraudulent documents are numbered as his department vows to work hand in hand with specialist investigative authorities.
The minister made the comments during a briefing in Pretoria earlier today, where he clarified reports of the negative impact on the tourism sector following the leak of an internal communication circular released by his department last year.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the only remaining backlog in visa applications in South Africa is the one relating to spousal and relative visas and the numbers have reduced significantly.
Responding to a parliamentary Q&A this past week, the minister said the backlog is now just over 40,000, which is around half of the backlog numbers reported at the end of last year.
Despite the apparent improvement, however, there are still concerns over visa turnaround times, which can still take eight months to process.
A couple from the Democratic Republic of Congo are no longer listed as “prohibited persons” after they were victorious in their bid at the Western Cape High Court.
A couple from the Democratic Republic of Congo are no longer listed as “prohibited persons” after they were victorious in their bid at the Western Cape High Court.
The couple were accused of having obtained visas fraudulently after applying for temporary asylum seeker and work permits in 2016.
That year in April, the wife had applied for the permit which authorised her to work in South Africa. She then obtained employment and thereafter obtained a work visa through an agent recommended by work colleagues.
A person purporting to be a Home Affairs official asked for a bribe from an applicant seeking to add an `a` on his permanent residency permit.
• Ibrahim Sissoko hired a private immigration consultant to help him with an application to rectify a basic mistake on his permanent residency permit.
• After the consultant sent emails to senior Department of Home Affairs officials about the incident, Sissoko received text messages from a person purporting to be an official.
• The alleged official demanded a bribe to help him with his application.
Ibrahim Sissoko`s eight-year battle to get the Department of Home Affairs to give him an extra `a` in his middle name resulted in a person purporting to be a department official demanding a bribe of R4 000.
Two Congolese nationals who assumed the identities of South African citizens are due to be sentenced in the Durban Magistrate`s Court on Friday.
They were found guilty of identity fraud and contravening immigration laws.
Tausi and John Kahwere were part of a group of foreign nationals arrested by the Hawks.
Two men from Bangladesh, Morshed Alam and Saiful Sujon, and South African Oliver Hurriparsad will be sentenced in May. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. DHA loses another fight over ID blocking 3. ZEP saga, Helen Suzman Foundation takes on Home Affairs minister in ConCourt 4. LATEST on applying for South African smart ID card in 2024 5. Motsoaledi vows to capture ‘crocodiles’ masquerading with fraudulent immigration documentsments 6. Good news for South Africa’s visa backlog with a catch 7. Asylum-seeking couple ‘not prohibited persons’ as high court vindicates them 8. 8-year battle with Home Affairs over missing `a` results in R4 000 bribe demand 9. Foreign nationals, Home Affairs official to be sentenced for identity fraud
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