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SA Migration Newsletter
13 / 2023 |
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 SA Migration
International was created out of the need for a
specialist organization to assist people wishing to immigrate,
volunteer, work, bring family, study or open businesses in South
Africa.
South Africa has begun taking steps to resolve its severe shortage of skills and a problem compounded by a messy work permit process.
Getting a work permit for SA has become a complex process. Image: Pixabay
A host of changes to simplify the rules governing the complex work permit regime were submitted to the state legal adviser last week and are expected to be passed into law in the coming months, said Saul Musker, Director of Strategy and Delivery Support in the South African Presidency.
Musker said that the adviser will consider them for a few weeks, before they are put out for public comment for 30 days. After that they will be taken to parliament
The gridlock affecting work-permit applications in South Africa is limiting expansion by German companies in the country and threatening operations that support 100 000 jobs, an industry association said.
While South Africa is taking steps to improve an approval system and make it easier and quicker to get permits, the snarl-up that was exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic has limited the entry of skilled workers into a country that has a dire shortage of them. Between 2014 and 2021 only 25 298 skilled-worker permits were approved by the country, which has a population of 60 million.
More than 40% (147) of Africa`s 345 companies with revenues exceeding R18.8 billion (US$1 billion) are based in South Africa, a new report by wealth tracker McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) says.
SA is the leader of the pack because it registered a 5.5% yearly average growth between 2015 and 2021 against a continental average of 4.9%.
Egypt comes in second with 43 billionaire companies, followed by Nigeria with 23 and Morocco with 20.
A distant fifth is Angola, with nine billionaire firms.
The rest of the African countries range between zero and 6.
The report revealed that 230 of those firms were founded in Africa or by Africans.
MGI estimates that by 2030, Africa`s large corporations would have a combined value of over R10 trillion.
Whoever said that immigration is a piece of cake clearly paid an arm and a leg for the slice.
South Africa has begun taking steps to resolve what the presidency believes is the biggest impediment to growth after persistent blackouts: An acute shortage of skills.
A raft of changes to simplify the rules governing the snarled up and byzantine work permit regime were submitted to the state legal adviser last week and are expected to be passed into law in coming months, said Saul Musker, director of strategy and delivery support in the South African Presidency.
Musker said that the adviser will consider them for a few weeks, they will then be put out for public comment for 30 days before being taken to parliament.
Schengen visa applicants are more frustrated than ever with the increasing rejection rates, calling out on the Schengen countries to stop “mercilessly†refusing their applications.
Sharing their experiences on Twitter, several Schengen visa applicants have complained that their applications have been rejected unfairly, listing all the difficulties they have encountered to apply, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
“I am so sad and angry. I was invited to the Google IO event that will take place in Amsterdam on June 20. We wanted to go as a family and spend five days in the Netherlands. I applied for a Dutch visa on April 25. They waited until June 7 and refused,†a Twitter user called Selin Tunc wrote on June 8.
She further explained that she had been told to appeal within four weeks, but as the date of the event she was planning to attend was approaching, she decided it was not something worth doing. SA
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Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. It takes 48 weeks to process a work permit for SA, report 3. Visa mess threatens SA expansion plans for German firms like VW, with 100 000 jobs at stake 4. SA is home to more than 40% of Africa`s billionaire companies - survey 5. Use a registered Immigration Consultancy / Practitioner it is absolutely Vital . 6. South Africa Is Tackling Its Second-Biggest Growth Problem 7. Schengen Countries Accused of Mercilessly Refusing Schengen Visas With France & Spain Accounting For Half of Rejections in 2022
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