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THE South African Home Affairs Department has extended the blanket concession for long-term visa or waiver applicants, who are awaiting outcomes of their applications, to December 31.
In a statement the department said:
“A directive to the Home Affairs, the Department of International Relations and Cooperating Consular Services and Visa Facilitation Centres has been issued to communicate this decision.
“The decision means that long-term visa or waiver applicants are permitted to legally remain in the country until December 31, pending the finalisation of their applications.
“Those that are travelling on passports issued by countries not visa exempted, are required to apply for a visitor’s visa to return to South Africa until their applications have been finalised.
“This concession is only applicable to applicants who have submitted an application via VFS before or on March 31.
“All visitors on short-term visas whose validity was issued for less than 90 days are excluded from the concession and are required to depart before or on the date of expiry of the validity period of their visas.”
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