General Work Visa

Under the General Work Visa there are very strict requirements. The South African government, although trying to promote work and trade in South Africa, recognize the need to give South Africans the chance to obtain employment ahead of any foreigner.

You will have to prove that you are the only person who can fill that position and that no other South African can play that role. This is done by placing an advert in a national newspaper advertising the position.

A Department of Labour report would need to be obtained.

You will also need to have a job offer/contract from your future employer.

The most important part of the process is skills assessment by SAQA (South African Qualifications Authority) in SA which evaluates your formal qualifications and compares them to a SA qualification. This process is mandatory and for this we would need your academic transcripts and award diplomas. Note under the regulations provision is made for the recognition of work experience in the absence of formal qualifications and this therefore makes provision recognition of prior work experience (RPL).

This is a paper based system which merely compares the foreign qualifications and arrives at an equivalent qualification in SA, and if qualified in SA then no SAQA needed.

Next your employer has to prove that you are the only person that can fill the position and no other South African can fill that role. This is done by placing an advert in a national newspaper advertising the position.

Please note the work Visa is issued in the name of the employer so the person is tied to the employer. If they change the job they will require a new work Visa.

There is some good news for people who are qualified through work experience only and they can qualify if they don’t require formal qualifications, ie SAQA.

Inter Company Transfer Visa

An intra-company transfer work Visa may be issued by the Department to a foreigner who is employed abroad by a business operating in the Republic in a branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship and who by reason of his or her employment is required to conduct work in the Republic.

An important factor is that the applicant has to have been employed with the company abroad for a period of not less than 6 months.

The Intra company transfer is not designed to be a long term visa. The idea is to bring in foreign workers employed by the company abroad with a branch or subsidiary branch here in South Africa; they work or conduct training for four years, and then return home.

This Visa does not require the hassle of proving the company could not find suitable applicants and it does not require the hassle of verifying an applicant’s formal qualifications. It is based purely on employment. If you are a company that needs to transfer in foreign employers, please contact us and we will make this go as smoothly as possible.

It is important to note that this category of work Visa cannot be granted for more than four (4) years and this type of Visa is not extendable.

Critical Skills Work Visa

The Critical Skills Visa South Africa is for skilled workers whose occupation is on the Critical Skills Visa List for South Africa. This list reflects the occupations that are in demand in South Africa.

The newly published "Skills or qualifications determined to be critical for the Republic of South Africa in relation to an application for a Critical Skills Visa or Permanent Residence Visa"

This category of work visa may be issued to an applicant who falls within a specific professional category or specific occupational class determined by the Minister by notice in the Government Gazette. This is done after consultation with the Minister of Labour and the Minister of Trade and Industry.

If an applicant falls within one of the professional categories listed on the critical skills list and also has the appropriate post qualification working experience in that profession then such applicant may qualify to apply for this category of work Visa.

The applicant also needs to where applicable register with the relevant South African professional accreditation body regulating that industry as stipulated by Minister of Home Affairs. Such body must also confirm the applicant’s skills, qualifications and working experience.

Furthermore, such applicant’s qualifications need to be evaluated relevant to a South African level. An applicant for a Critical Skills Visa may enter South Africa on such visa without having secured a job offer first. It is, however, required of the applicant to confirm employment with the Department of Home Affairs within a period of one (1) year upon arrival in South Africa, failing which, the Visa would automatically lapse.

The Critical Skills Work Visa is tied to an individual and not to an employer so under this Visa a person can leave from one employer to the next without obtaining a new work Visa.

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South Africa Working Visas

South Africa seeks highly skilled individuals to live and work in SA.

SA Migration Services will provide professional assistance to arrange your work visa for you if you qualify.

Work Visas are regulated in terms of Section 19, Regulation 18 and items 18 (1), 19(2), 20, 21 and 22, of Schedule A.

There are three common types of Work Visas:

• General Work Visa
• Inter Company Transfer Visa
• Critical Skills Visa

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South African Spousal Visa

This type of South Africa Spouse or life partner permit is available to people in either heterosexual or same-sex relationships and can be applied for as either a spouse temporary residence permit or a permanent residence permit depending on the length of the marriage or relationship in question.

 This type of South Africa Spouse or life partner permit is available to people in either heterosexual or same-sex relationships and can be applied for as either a spouse temporary residence permit or a permanent residence permit depending on the length of the marriage or relationship in question.

Foreigners who are spouses of South African citizensor permanent resident holders may apply for permanent residence. To obtain permanent residence, you would have to have been with your partner for more than 5 years.

Being one of the most progressive countries in the world in recognizing same-sex couples and affording them equal rights to that of heterosexual unions South Africa grants spousal permits to life partners in both same-sex and heterosexual relationships.

• The spousal permit is classified under the relative’s visa category and is renewable.
• The spousal visa is issued for a period of 36 months at a time. An added factor is the expiry date of the passport , ie the visa cannot be longer than expiry date of passport.
• It is a temporary residency visa and is only issued to foreign nationals who can prove a committed relationship with a South African citizen or person holding permanent residency.
• The couple must be able to prove a relationship longer than two years

If you would like to study or work while in the Republic you may do so but you would have to apply for working rights to be added to your visa. Persons on a spousal permit may also only apply to have either study, or business or working rights added to their visa, but not all three. This means that if you added a working rights endorsement to your visa you may only work for an employer.

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ZEP Permit Holders  - Beware  – Be careful of false information

– this circulating in your community , it is factually incorrect

“ Good evening dear members. We now have Immigration Directive 12 of 2021. I would like to encourage all of you without or with professional qualifications etc who would want to apply for a General Work permit later to apply for a Waiver within the next 9 days and Department of Home Affairs have said they will process your waivers applications before 31 March 2022. If your waiver applications is successful and granted, you will be able to apply for a General Work Permit without a need to have documentations required like certificates, Saqa documentation, police clearance, newspaper adverts etc. They will only then need your employers letter, valid passport and covid vaccination certificate to apply for the General Work Permit when your waiver applications is successful.

What is a Waiver?

It is an application made in South Africa and adjudicated by the Department of Home Affairs. In order to apply for a waiver the applicant must be in possession of a valid refugee or immigration status (eg a valid ZEP Permit and not an expired one).

The minister yesterday issues Directive 12 of 2021 and on (a) he said he will need until 31 March 2022 to make outcomes for all Waivers applied for. And anyone who doesn't have a Waiver or General Work Permit Application by 1 April 2022 will be described as "undesirable" and will have to to 31 December 2022 to pack bags and kids and return to Zimbabwe without being formally charged at the border or legal port of exit to avoid being deported

Here is fake link  https://www.vfsvisaonline.com/DHAFOSOnlineVAF/gatewaypage.aspx “

Sa Migration says

“ Here is part of the scam , the link above is a real VFS visa page and when you capture the page it goes back to home page  and it goes nowhere , it was taken out of context – check the real VFS pages https://www.vfsglobal.com/dha/southafrica/  “

Please contact us for the real information , following the advice will lead you to heart break

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We need more people looking to create jobs than people looking for jobs

News 24 – 25 March 2022

With every second South African youth with a post-matric education becoming an employer, we will have enough jobs for even more foreign nationals, writes Alex Mabunda. 

One of the things I always look forward to, driving to and from work, is listening to talk radio, more so when it is an open line, where listeners share their views on various current affairs topics.

In recent weeks, with everything that is happening in the country, the issue of migration and youth joblessness has dominated the airwaves. The arguments against migration have become so crass and emotional that on one radio station I often tune in to, the announcer has to constantly warn his listeners to refrain from using inflammatory language in their contributions. As a leader of a management consulting firm, my natural inclination is to want to apply my first-principle problem-solving techniques to complex issues such as this.

I ask myself: "Are foreigners really taking our children's jobs? Have they set out to come and take away from our people? Must they be sent home en masse, like Nigeria and Ghana did to each other's citizens in the 1960s and 1970s respectively? What is the role of the government in all this?"

And then the objective side of me kicks in, and I ask myself: "What is our role, as the black South African society, in this?"

Man looking for a job 

As the English saying goes: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Indeed, if the answers to these questions were that simple and obvious, like many callers and voice-noters would have the world believe, we would probably not be here. I, myself, a beggar, found no horses to ride, until one day when a young South African man approached me looking for a job. He told me he has B-Tech in Agriculture, and he's now studying teaching methodology in order to find a job as an agriculture teacher.

It was not the fact that we did not have an immediate requirement for agronomists in the firm that created a moment of epiphany for me. It was me wondering: why would someone who has had the privilege of a specialised education be without anything valuable to do to earn a living outside the dictates of formal employment?

I thought about the migrants who come into South Africa without proper documentation, some without education, without capital, without a relative, without contacts in high and low places, not even a meaningful domicile, but they end up having a business, if not a job, in a matter of months. If these guys can pull this feat, what makes someone with a green ID book, post-matric education, a network of well-to-do and not-so-well-to-do family, friends and community, hop from one qualification to another in pursuit of employment?

This, I thought, is really employment going around looking for employment! At this moment, the late Robert Nesta Marley's song, Rat Race, seized my mind with the line that goes: "In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty." Have we become a nation of Bob Marley's fools, or is it just me in the privilege of incumbency?

Material incentive to become an employer 

But then I remembered that I started at the cost of what would in every likelihood have been a great corporate career. I had so much to lose when I left formal employment, with less immediate material incentive to become an employer. I remembered that all I had was an unassailable desire to outdo what was then a sum total of me. I began to feel less sympathetic for the young agronomist, who had every incentive to do something bigger than his then self. Unlike me, he needed it, and had nothing to lose, yet he did not see it, it seems.

That day I went home satisfied that my first-principle problem-solving technique had finally broken the code. I realised that what we lack among our youth is belief in self and self's unlimited capacity to dream and see the dreams through. Self-starters are outliers, not the norm. This is our issue! It may well be that youth employment schemes should not be the pursuit. Instead, we should be pursuing youth entrepreneurship schemes, where we encourage and teach our young to become employers.

We must teach them that being able to read, write, use a computer and be knowledgeable in at least one subject of specialisation is everything they need – after a dream and the commitment to getting things done – to become employers. We need to have more people looking for opportunities to create jobs than people looking for jobs.

With every second South African youth with post-matric education becoming an employer, we will have enough jobs for even more foreign nationals. Needless to say, we would become a wealthy nation.

But then I woke up the next morning remembering that wishes remain exactly that, wishes

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