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BL Premium reports that the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will allow officials at SA missions abroad to process visa applications received between 12 January and the end of August.
The department's director-general, Tommy Makhode, indicated in a directive that the permission was being granted because missions had been unable to timeously transmit visa applications received between those dates for adjudication by the head office in Pretoria. The latest directive follows the one issued on 31 August, which announced that due to a build-up of visa applications and long delays, the DHA would revert to the previous system in terms of which visa applications were processed by missions. The return to the decentralised system took effect from 1 September. At the time, diplomatic sources had understood that applications already made prior to the reintroduction of the decentralised system would continue to be handled in Pretoria. The centralised system of visa application processing was introduced by way of a directive earlier in 2022, but it created such a bottleneck that businesses complained that it was impeding foreign investment and the attraction of critical skills into the country.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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