Department of Home Affairs To Enforce Legal Immigrant Employment

Companies may expect “a knock on the door” from the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to conduct required audits and investigations on their employment practices of immigrant workers, Director from the DHA’s Corporate Account Unit, Ben Makhalemele has warned.

NEWS | EMPLOYING EXPATRIATES? – DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN EMPLOYERS

Employers are often hard pressed to find the necessary (and scarce) skills to fill selected roles within their organisation. Time and again employers turn to the international labour market to seek individuals possessing the required skillsets to support and sustain the needs of the organisation.

Media statement on the extension of the closing date for the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP)

The Department of Home Affairs has extended the closing date for payments and submission of supporting documents and biometrics for the new Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), until 15 February 2018. The cut-off date was initially 30 November 2017 and was extended to 31 January 2018 in the hope that all those who had applied online […]

How to Fill SA’s Immediate Skills Gap

A new report compiled by expatriate solutions provider Xpatweb, “Critical Skills Survey Results 2017”, confirms that local companies are hard pressed to find the right expertise to achieve their corporate goals. It is therefore to every business and professional body’s benefit to engage with government to make work visa applications as easy as possible.

NEWSFLASH: CABINET RESHUFFLE – NEW MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS, MS AYANDA DLODLO

President Jacob Zuma announced early Tuesday morning, 17 October 2017 more changes to the current roles within the Cabinet.

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GETTING A WORK VISA FOR A FOREIGN SKILLED EMPLOYEE

Marisa Jacobs, director and head of immigration and mobility at Xpatweb, unpacks what’s required to obtain a work visa for a foreign skilled employee. In truth, it’s extremely easy if you know what you need and how to go about it, but near impossible if you are inexperienced and make school boy errors.

Permanent Residency to be Considered before Conclusion of White Paper

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Radio Interview: Marisa Jacobs on SAFM


Managing Director of Work Permit South Africa, Marisa Jacobs, was interviewed on how employers can obtain a work Visa for a foreign skilled employee. Should you have missed the interview please feel free to listen to it below.

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Time aired: 07/27/2017 at 2:50PM

EXPECT PLENTY OF SOUTH AFRICANS ABROAD RETURNING HOME OR EMIGRATING

The draft tax law amendments for 2017 has been published by National Treasury on 19 Jul 2017, which contains the much-anticipated details on tax treatment of South Africans performing their employment abroad

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Renewing general work visas challenging in South Africa

General work visas are proving virtually impossible to renew, since the implementation of the current immigration laws on 26 May 2014, when the Department of Labour took on a more significant role in the process.

Holders of general work visas, the most commonly sought visa for foreign professionals working and living in South Africa are finding it practically impossible to renew their visas.

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