(a) The Department has not conducted any research regarding the visa free countries, therefore no results are available.
(b)(i-iii) There were no plans to conduct research in this area as most of the visa agreements were already concluded since 1992.
(c)(i–ii) The list of visa free countries is attached as Annexure A. RSA does not issue visas on arrival.
(c) Agreements are concluded ...
(1)(a)(i) 75 033 Active Refugees
(1)(a)(ii) 165 115 Active Asylum Seekers
(1)(b) 131 858 Appeals before RAASA
(1)(c) 736 372 Inactive Asylum Seekers
2. Asylum seekers can choose to reside anywhere in the Republic. There is no sufficient capacity within the state to confirm if they still reside where they have initially declared or if they have chosen to depart the Republic.
3. Current active Refugees come from ...
(1)(a) Home Affairs officials who were found to be working with the Pakistan Kingpin have been taken to DC and expelled from the Department. Others have been arrested for fraud and corruption and the cases are ongoing. The Hawks are still continuing the investigations and we expect more arrests.
(1)(b) The actions taken are divided into four (4) main categories. Viz:
a) The number of applications not finalised from July 2016 to September 2022 is 125, which is part of the backlog project.
b) 11 Adjudicators worked on this category of applications.
(c)(i) 36 applications have been finalised.
(c)(ii) 32 applications have been rejected.
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(a) The Department has been looking at establishing an office in Knysna for a few years now, amongst others, but due to the lack of funding was unable to do so. The Department has embarked on an extensive study to revise and align the department’s access model with service delivery demand. A funding proposal for newly proposed offices and service points as per the ...
a) Currently the Department, does not disaggregate children’s birth certificate according to whether they have a single parent or not. The Department intends to develop a system that generates data related to the above. However, data for both parents is contained in the unabridged birth certificate.
b) Section 9 dealing with Notice of birth in subsection (1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act ...
1. Honourable member DNA tests are conducted for many reasons in the department and not just for people to prove their nationality. The test can be conducted for proving parenthood of South Africans themselves.
Unfortunately, there is no waiver of fees process in place by the department for the parents who cannot afford DNA tests, as the fees and tariffs hereto are administered by ...
The Department will continue with the online renewal of documents and will over the next three months work to streamline the process in order to address some of the concerns raised by clients.
Those clients who are unable to use the online platform will be able to approach a Refugee Reception Office for assistance.
Furthermore, a stakeholder engagement drive within the refugee and asylum ...
Cabinet adopted and approved the One Stop Border Post (OSBP) policy in March 2022.
OSBP legislation must be enacted which should inter alia allow for the deployment of the employees in the foreign territory through a co-location principle. Draft legislation will still need to be prepared and considered by Cabinet. The Department is procuring the service a specialiset legistaive drafter to assist in this ...
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The Department has not conducted any research with reference to remote working visas. However, the President in his State of the Nation Address on 14 February 2022 announced that he had appointed former Department of Home Affairs Director-General, Mr Mavuso Msimang to review the Visa Regime.
I therefore request the Honourable De Freitas to ...