Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Tuesday revealed a number of changes to South Africa’s current immigration regulations, which may ease international travel for locals and foreigners. These amendments are in line with recommendations by the inter-ministerial committee on immigration regulations. Here are five key amendments Gigaba mentioned: TRAVELLING CHILDREN “The key changes will be..
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6 KEY THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SA’S REVISED VISA RULES
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Wonderful Tourism News, or not !! South Africa set to relax visa restrictions for foreign visitors
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With tourism being the backbone of the South African economy, President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to make visa applications easier.
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The surprising locations where South Africans are buying second passports
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Forget destinations like the UK and Australia, a large number of South Africans are looking to get second passports from more obscure places. Recently-released data from Henley and Partners reveals that a growing contingent of South Africans are looking to buy their way into foreign citizenship, by choosing some unconventional destinations. The report, which was..
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The UK is introducing a new two-year seasonal visa – here’s what South Africans need to know
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The UK Home Government announced earlier this month that it will launch a two-year seasonal worker pilot scheme. According to Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants, the scheme aims to bring 2,500 seasonal workers to farms in the UK. The UK Visa pilot scheme will allow workers from outside the EU to do seasonal farm work in the..
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Moving to the UK: The Unmarried Partner Visa – all you need to know
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Many people assume that there is a separate type of visa application for the unmarried partner. However, this is not the case. If one fulfils the criteria to be an ‘unmarried partner,’ one would apply in the same way as the spouse or dependent of the main UK visa applicant. One can thus be the..
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South African Citizenship and dual nationality, what you need to know!
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Recently, the fact that South Africans can lose their South African citizenship if they do not retain their SA citizenship before taking on any other nationality through naturalization made the headlines again. Many individuals and organisations are making calls again for the law on this to be amended. Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants strongly suggest that any..
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Emigration to Australia: Investment visa options for South Africans
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Understandably this raises huge concerns and a myriad of questions for land and business owners in South Africa and for people considering emigration. There have been a number of recent stories run on the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) programs. In simple terms, the SIV visa option relaxed the normal age and language requirements, provided adequate..
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Over 100 visa-free travel destinations are now available to South Africans
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South Africa has officially moved into the top 50 powerful passports on the planet, as 11 more countries granted SA nationals visa-free entry in the last year. BusinessTech shared travel advisors Henley & Partners’ latest travel index, and it is good news for any of us with a touch of wanderlust. The total amount of..
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New visa rules good news for South Africans looking for work in the UK
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The UK Home Office has announced that it will henceforth no longer include doctors and nurses in the cap on the Tier 2 Visa cap. This is according to immigration consultants Breytenbachs, which notes that every month, since December 2017, the monthly quota for the Tier 2 Restricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) was reached. “Many..
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Education in China: This is what you need to know
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Today it is certainly not an exaggeration to say that literally thousands of South Africans gives school in Russia, the Middle East and Asia. Only in China alone there are hundreds of teachers in the one internet group of which I am the administrator, called South Africans Living In China. But it’s not without dangers and problems, as one of the members of the group recently found out. Madri Strydom was detained in Beijing for sixteen days before being deported to South Africa.
Madri was not the first South African to have been deported. Neither the first who did nothing wrong and yet the Chinese showed her the door. She will certainly not be the last.
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