Visa extension for waiver and visa applicants until 30 June 2022

As many readers are little doubt painfully conscious, the Division of House Affairs is as soon as once more failing to offer utility outcomes inside an inexpensive timeframe, with many visa functions taking properly over 6 months to be finalized.

In an try to deal with the impression of this lack of service supply, the Division introduced a short lived visa extension for candidates on 1 April 2022. This information is certain to please anxious candidates who’re nearing the expiry dates of their present visas.

Candidates whose waiver functions are nonetheless pending:

House Affairs has prolonged the visas of overseas nationals whose waiver functions are nonetheless pending till 30 June 2022. This extension will give the Division time to course of waiver functions and for candidates to gather their outcomes and submit functions for acceptable visas.

These candidates who wish to abandon their waiver functions and depart from South Africa will likely be allowed to depart SA earlier than or on 30 June 2022 with out being declared undesirable.

Candidates whose visa functions are nonetheless pending:

House Affairs has additionally prolonged the visas of overseas nationals who’re ready on visa utility outcomes till 30 June 2022, and candidates who want to abandon their utility may even have the ability to go away South Africa earlier than or on 30 June 2022 with out being declared undesirable on the border.

Travelling in the course of the upcoming Easter holidays:

Visa candidates with pending long-term visa functions who originate from visa-waiver international locations could journey outdoors of South Africa in the course of the upcoming Easter holidays however should current their VFS receipts to frame management upon departing South Africa, and once more on arrival to achieve entry again into South Africa.

Nonetheless, these candidates with long-term visa functions who originate from international locations which might be visa restricted should have a port of entry visa along with their VFS receipt to be admitted again into South Africa.

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