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BusinessLive reports that the Department of Higher Education has begun the lengthy process of compiling a new list of critical skills that will be used to determine whether a foreigner may apply for a visa to live and work in SA.
The “critical skills visa” is one of a few options that potential immigrants can use to seek legal status, and aims to ensure that only individuals whose skills are in short supply are able to settle in the country. The existing list, which was compiled and gazetted in 2014, includes a long list of occupations. Earlier in 2019, a new draft list that was more restrictive came into circulation. Among the major changes was that the category of corporate general manager had been excised — an omission that raised concern among business organisations. Business has lobbied government for many years to open up the economy to easier immigration of skilled people, which it believes will be positive for economic growth, but mostly without success. That draft list is now in abeyance and a process is under way to compile a new list. The department indicated on Tuesday that the new draft list would emerge in about November and would be refined by March 2020.
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