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NEW EXTENSION CONCESSION APPLICABLE TO VISA APPLICANTS AS WELL

31 Mar 2026

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has had a backlog of Waiver and Appeal applications for some time. Despite managing to clear the visa backlog that started during the Covid-19 pandemic it has become apparent recently that they now have a backlog with regards to visa applications as well. How this has managed to happen so soon after the Covid 19 backlog was cleared is hard to fathom. DHA have been issuing directives that provide concessions to waiver and appeal applicants allowing them to ex...

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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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REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RETIREMENT VISA

15 Sep 2022

The Retirement Visa is covered in Section 20 of the Immigration Act. The primary requirement is that the applicant must have a sufficiently large monthly income to demonstrate that they can live comfortably in South Africa. The income that an applica...

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DECISION TO CENTRALISE VISA PROCESSING REVERSED

05 Sep 2022

As discussed in our last two blogs all visa applications are presently taking extremely long to be processed. The reason for this was the decision to centralise the processing of all visa applications so that the processing of visa applications was n...

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BUSINESS LEADERSHIP SOUTH AFRICA ADDS ITS VOICE TO THE CONCERNS ABOUT VISA PROCESSING DELAYS

30 Aug 2022

Hot on the heels of the French Trade Advisors call for an urgent solution to the extreme delays by the Department of Home Affairs with regards to the processing of visas Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has reiterated the calls that the presen...

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FRENCH BUSINESSES RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT VISA PROCESSING DELAYS

29 Aug 2022

We have previously highlighted the issue of the significant delays that are presently being experienced with the processing of all visa applications. This delay has been blamed on the centralization of visa processing where all visa applications are...

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