Year |
Total |
2012 |
6226 |
2013 |
7286 |
2014 |
9230 |
2015 |
2499 |
2016 |
3157 |
2017 |
2267 |
2018 |
1594 |
2019 |
1834 |
2020 |
2020 |
2021 |
184 |
1 b) Certification as a Refugee Indefinitely Granted per year at SCRA
Year |
Total |
2012 |
NOT AVAILABLE |
2013 |
94 |
2014 |
948 |
2015 |
684 |
2016 |
510 |
2017 |
1082 |
2018 |
1463 |
2019 |
2459 |
2020 |
578 |
2021 |
606 |
2. The Department currently have asylum applications from the below mentioned countries
Afghanistan |
Colombia |
Haiti |
Mali |
Senegal |
USA |
Algeria |
Comoros |
Hungary |
Mauritania |
Serbia |
Venezuela |
Angola |
Congo |
India |
Mauritius |
Sierra Leone |
Wallis and Futuna |
Australia |
Croatia |
Iran |
Morocco |
Slovenia |
Yemen |
Bahamas |
Denmark |
Iraq |
Mozambique |
Solomon Islands |
Zambia |
Bahrain |
Djibouti |
Ireland |
Namibia |
Somalia |
Zimbabwe |
Bangladesh |
DRC |
Ivory Coast |
Nepal |
Sri Lanka |
|
Barbados |
East Timor |
Jamaica |
Netherlands |
Sudan |
|
Belarus |
Ecuador |
Jordan |
Niger |
Suriname |
|
Benin |
Egypt |
Kazakhstan |
Nigeria |
Swaziland |
|
Botswana |
Eritrea |
Kenya |
Niue |
Sweden |
|
Bulgaria |
Estonia |
Kyrgyzstan |
NULL |
Syria |
|
Burkina Faso |
Ethiopia |
Lebanon |
Oman |
Tanzania |
|
Burundi |
Gabon |
Lesotho |
Other |
Thailand |
|
Cambodia |
Gambia |
Liberia |
Pakistan |
Togo |
|
Cameroon |
Germany |
Libya |
Palestine |
Turkey |
|
Central African Republic |
Ghana |
Macau |
Russia |
Uganda |
|
Chad |
Guinea |
Malawi |
Rwanda |
Ukraine |
|
China |
Guinea Bissau |
Malaysia |
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Uruguay |
|
3. The current government policy position on refugees remain non-encampment, any policy shift will be informed by necessary political discussions and structures. My role in those discussions is to provide input informed as politically deployed to the Home Affairs portfolio.
4. The number of persons identified, arrested and confirmed for deportation in terms of the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 are indicated in the attached statistics.
5. The list of the countries and total figures with respect to each country are captured in the attachment.
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