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SA Migration Newsletter
09 / 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.
An Ethiopian asylum seeker, who does not speak English, claims he was duped by a senior immigration official into paying an admission of guilt fine when he thought he was paying for bail.
Two Western Cape High Court judges have condemned the official`s `deplorable` behaviour, set aside the fine, and ordered the immigration official be taken off the case.
Tsegaye Esyas claims Annelise van Dyk treated him like an animal which led to him attempt suicide while in police cells.
DA MP says hours lost continue to result in persons being unable to collect their ID documents due to unmanageable queues
The DA has been inundated with complaints that the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) systems are offline, resulting in long queues and delayed processing of documents.
Through questions posed to the Minister, the DA can now reveal that the DHA has lost over 77 years’ worth of working hours due to system downtime and load-shedding from 2019 to date. Concerningly, this data only relates to hours lost for the application of smart IDs, meaning decades more of working hours could have been additionally lost in other spheres such as passport or visa applications.
There are fears that more people will be separated by the introduction of a minimum salary level for those wanting UK family visas.
Families living in the UK and abroad have raised concerns about what new rules will mean for them as they try to reunite with foreign spouses.
In December, the Home Office, which says migration to the UK is too high, announced a package of measures to reduce net migration, following a spike in arrival numbers.
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) this week revealed that Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) has achieved a ground-breaking milestone by processing more than 10 million passengers over a single financial year.
This is the highest number of regional and international passengers processed since COVID-19
Due to system downtime and load-shedding, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) lost nearly 141,000 hours of Smart ID application and production time between the 2019/20 and 2022/23 financial years.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi revealed this figure in a recent response to questions raised in Parliament by Democratic Alliance MP Adrian Roos.
Motsoaledi provided a breakdown of smart ID production and application hours lost to technical difficulties and load-shedding per province for each financial year from 2019/2020.
These disruptions hit home Affairs offices in the Eastern Cape the hardest, with over 34,000 hours to rotational power cuts and system downtime.
Mpumalanga offices lost the next-highest number of hours at 17
Home Affairs’ seemingly endless court battles set the department back more than R110-million between April 2023 and the end of February this year. This was revealed in a written parliamentary response by minister Aaron Motsoaledi. He said the department accumulated a litigation bill of R117 692 996.3, higher than the R72 637 944.51 spent the year before.
As a South African who has adopted a nomadic work lifestyle alongside my wife, Ingrid Lotze, I’ve been an interested observer of South Africa’s snail-pace digital nomad visa (DNV) development process. Despite the optimism surrounding its introduction, the visa seems to miss several crucial marks for digital nomads like us.
Industry injected an estimated R1.2bn into the Western Cape economy in the last financial year, with around 90 000 passengers and 38 000 crew members expected to step ashore in the current year.
For the first time in history, Friday (11 April) saw two of the world’s most famous cruise liners the Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Victoria dock in the Port of Cape Town at the same time. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. Senior immigration officer slammed by Cape judges after Ethiopian asylum seeker attempts suicide 3. DHA lost 77 years` worth of working hours in 5 years Adrian Roos 4. New family immigration visa rules `penalise couples` 5. Cape Town International Airport surpasses 10 million passengers mark 6. The System is Down Home Affairs logs 140,859 hours of Smart ID downtime in four years 7. Home Affairs has spent over R110 million on court battles in less than a year 8. South Africa’s digital nomad visa falls short of the mark 9. Cape Town set for record cruise tourist season
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