REMOTE WORK VISA INTRODUCED

15 Oct 2024

After various delays and false dawns the South African Remote Work Visa was gazetted on the 9th October 2024. The Remote Work Visa (Digital Nomad Visa) allows a foreign person that is employed by an overseas company to continue to work for that company remotely from South Africa. Encouragingly the income threshold for qualification for the Remote Work Visa which was originally pitched at R 1 million per annum has been reduced to R 650 796 gross per annum. The applicant will have to submit thei...

SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

10 Jun 2022

Prior to Covid-19 visa applications submitted from within South Africa typically had a processing period of approximately 10 weeks. It was a very rare occurence that the visa processing period took any longer than this. This was considered an accepta...

WORK VISA QUOTAS TO BE INTRODUCED FOR CERTAIN INDUSTRIES

04 Mar 2022

The Department of Employment and Labour released the National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) as well as the Employment Services Amendment Bill for public comment earlier this week. The proposed legislation contains two significant policy shifts. Fir...

WILL SOUTH AFRICA GET A REMOTE WORKING VISA?

23 Feb 2022

The South African Government is notoriously slow with regards to the introduction of new visa categories or amendments to the existing categories. An example of this is the Critical Skills list which was first introduced in 2014 and the first changes...

NEW RULES FOR CRITICAL SKILLS WORK VISAS

11 Feb 2022

At the same time as the release of the new Critical Skills List the Department of Home Affairs also released Immigration Directive No. 1 of 2022. The Directive sets out the transitional arrangement for implementation of the new Critical Skills list a...

NEW CRITICAL SKILLS LIST RELEASED

07 Feb 2022

The long awaited new Critical Skills List has finally been published by the Department of Home Affairs. This is the first update to the Critical Skills List since 2014. It is a quite comprehensive list with over 100 professions included. The followi...

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REMOTE WORK VISA INTRODUCED

SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

WORK VISA QUOTAS TO BE INTRODUCED FOR CERTAIN INDUSTRIES

WILL SOUTH AFRICA GET A REMOTE WORKING VISA?

NEW RULES FOR CRITICAL SKILLS WORK VISAS

NEW CRITICAL SKILLS LIST RELEASED

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REMOTE WORK VISA INTRODUCED

SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN PROCESSING OF VISAS

WORK VISA QUOTAS TO BE INTRODUCED FOR CERTAIN INDUSTRIES

WILL SOUTH AFRICA GET A REMOTE WORKING VISA?

NEW RULES FOR CRITICAL SKILLS WORK VISAS

NEW CRITICAL SKILLS LIST RELEASED

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