HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

13 Jan 2023

The South African Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has revealed in a parliamentary question session that it has a backlog of over 56 000 visa applications that are waiting to be processed. According to DHA they are hoping to clear this backlog by June 2024. The extent of the backlog is absolutely startling. Prior to Covid a visa application never took longer than 12 weeks to be processed. Since the beginning of 2022 most visa applications are taking in excess of 12 months to be processed. How t...

HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

13 Jan 2023

COURT ORDERS DHA TO PROCESS PERMANENT RESIDENCE APPLICATIONS

08 Nov 2022

In a recent judgment The Pretoria High Court has ordered the Department of Home Affairs to process 182 Permanent Residence applications within a 30 day period. Certain of these applications have been outstanding for over 7 years. Most of the applica...

CRITICAL SKILLS AND BUSINESS VISAS TO RECEIVE PRIORITY

07 Oct 2022

Due to the decision to centralise the processing of visa applications (which has now been reversed) many visa applications have still not been processed. Many of these applications are for critical skills and business visa with companies now becoming...

AIRBNB AND CAPE TOWN JOIN FORCES TO PROMOTE REMOTE WORKING

04 Oct 2022

While the South African government drags its feet with considering whether to introduce a Remote Workers Visa Airbnb and the City of Cape Town have entered into a partnership as part of the “live and work anywhere initiative” to attract r...

FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCESSION DUE TO DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

19 Sep 2022

Due to the very long processing times presently being experienced with regards to visa applications the Department of Home Affairs issued a Directive that allowed applicants who had submitted visa applications to depart South Africa without being ban...

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HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

COURT ORDERS DHA TO PROCESS PERMANENT RESIDENCE APPLICATIONS

CRITICAL SKILLS AND BUSINESS VISAS TO RECEIVE PRIORITY

AIRBNB AND CAPE TOWN JOIN FORCES TO PROMOTE REMOTE WORKING

FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCESSION DUE TO DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

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HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

HOME AFFAIRS HAS A BACKLOG OF OVER 56 000 VISAS

COURT ORDERS DHA TO PROCESS PERMANENT RESIDENCE APPLICATIONS

CRITICAL SKILLS AND BUSINESS VISAS TO RECEIVE PRIORITY

AIRBNB AND CAPE TOWN JOIN FORCES TO PROMOTE REMOTE WORKING

FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCESSION DUE TO DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

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