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Issuing visas for visitors to South Africa (although visa applications pass through embassies or consulates which are part of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation). Managing immigration to South Africa and naturalisation of permanent immigrants. Handling refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa.
Refugee travel documents issued by the Government of Canada cannot be used for travel to the bearer’s country of citizenship, [7] and a refugee travel document issued by another country is not treated as a valid passport for the purposes of obtaining an Electronic Travel Authorization to visit Canada. Given that bearers of refugee travel ...
South African anti-apartheid journalist Persecution by apartheid government Lesotho: Maseru United Kingdom: January 1978 () January 1978 () Fled to London, with the help of the British High Commissioner and government of Lesotho, where he was granted political asylum: The Siberian Seven: Siberian Pentecostals: prevented from emigrating [16]
In the 1990s, the RENAMO War in Mozambique caused an influx of migration into South Africa, and in modern times this particular group is often granted refugee status. Many work permit holders come from Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and a high number of asylum-seekers hail from Somalia. [5]
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
The 26-year-old was almost out of time to apply for asylum when she attended South Brooklyn Sanctuary’s walk-in migration program at Good Shepherd Church in Bay Ridge; asylum applications need ...
An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus a category that includes different forms of protection. Which form of protection is offered depends on the legal definition that best describes the asylum seeker's reasons to flee. Once the decision was made the asylum seeker ...
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