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SA Migration Newsletter
15 / 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 is changing its marriage law to recognise all types of intimate partnerships irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, or religious, cultural and other beliefs.
The Department of Home Affairs has invited public comment on the Draft Marriage Bill 2022. The bill amends some marriage laws, and prescribes what’s required for marriages to be considered valid, forms of registration, and the property consequences of marriage. As the preamble shows, it seeks to promote liberal values of equality, nondiscrimination, human dignity and freedom of thought.
As processing times for some parent immigration visas balloon out to almost 30 years, the families hoping to be reunited for good are left in limbo
“My heart is broken,†writes Maria from Norway.
Originally from Poland, Maria and her husband, Robert, are eager to join their son in Perth. He’s an IT engineer at a global company who relocated to Australia several years ago. Since then, he’s married, become a citizen and had a son.
In August 2021, Maria and Robert applied for contributory parent visas, which offer permanent residency and cost $47,955 for each person. At the time they were advised it would be three or four years before they could migrate. Now Maria is reading on Facebook that the wait could be more than six years.
With the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to raise its key interest rate, and the average price of a home rising year-over-year, many Canadians say they are struggling to afford housing. As a result, some have decided to relocate to countries where they will pay less for accommodation and other essential items.
One of those people is Roland Cameron from Hamilton, Ont. Cameron and his wife arrived in Barbados on July 10 and plan to live there permanently. The couple had considered living in other countries before settling on Barbados, where Cameron’s father’s side of the family lives. In search of a lower cost of living, the couple hopes to make the value of their dollar go further, Cameron said.
“The fundamentals of why we’re paying so much for stuff doesn’t make sense,†the 48-year-old business owner told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview on June 12. “We would always come up with more income, but new costs would pop up.
A study found that 3.05 million people in Japan held side jobs last year to make ends meet.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications carries out a survey on the nation’s employment structure every five years.
The latest finding, released July 21, represented an increase of 600,000 over the previous study in 2017.
The ministry surveyed around 540,000 households nationwide last October.
Those who held side jobs represented 4.8 percent of the total, a 0.9 percentage point increase over the previous survey.
Only 2.5 percent of regular workers held a side job. However, 7.2 percent of people in irregular employment did so.
Customer reviews are becoming increasingly powerful.
Many businesses are making the mistake of chasing new customers when what they should be doing is ensuring the customers they do have give them a good review, says Amanda Reekie.
South Africans are coming into their own when it comes to voicing their opinions online good and bad - through the ability to post experience reviews on a business’s website, their social media or via third parties like HelloPeter. So significant is this trend that it underpins the key findings of the fifth edition of The South African Customer Experience Report, which I recently co-authored with Rogerwilco’s CEO Charlie Stewart and Julia Ahlfeldt from Julia Ahlfeldt Founder of Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.
I was a foster parent for young refugees who came to Kent via the Channel, but were too old to live on their own.
One of them, a young boy from Afghanistan, saw his family killed in front of him. He told me: “The Taliban finished my family. But one day, maybe I can get married and start a new family of my own.†For him, nothing was more important than finding a place to call home.
For a boy living with such trauma, the Rwanda plan would have been devastating. Imagine thinking you had found a safe place where you could put down roots, only to learn you could be sent to another country, thousands of miles away, all because you had been unfortunate enough to take a dangerous journey? SA
Migration International
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SA
Migration
Tel.: +27 (0)71 632 9555 Fax: +27 (0)21 461 2611 Email: info@sami.co.za
Table of Contents
1. About SA Migration
2. South Africa’s new Marriage Bill raises many thorny issues - a balancing act is needed 3. They will never be granted the visa in their lifetime’: the families waiting decades to settle parents in Australia 4. I`m done with Canada High cost of living leads some to leave the country 5. 3 million people in Japan holding second jobs to make ends meet 6. Why customer reviews are becoming a multi-billion-rand powerhouse 7. I am a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, it’s not a safe country for refugees
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