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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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