Archive for the ‘South African Immigration’ Category

There were about 61,000 successful applications made for the Working Holidaymaker visa in 2006/ 07.

About 1,000 of those were from South Africa.

In two weeks time the door to the Working Holidaymaker program will be permanently shut when the Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) kicks into practice and South Africans will have to find alternative and more difficult and less flexible visa entry to experience life in the UK.

In all fairness the South African government has known for an adequate amount of time that to qualify as a participating country they must have a reciprocal program running for British 17-30 year olds.

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Almost 20 years safter being released from prison and about 14 years since the advent of democracy in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is finally able to loose the tag, ‘terrorist’.

The US Congress has finally passed a bill to remove the name of Nelson Mandela from the list of terrorists.

Since the 1980s a stigma has remained that relates to the African National Congress (ANC), the current South African ruling party and the party which Mandela led. When applying for a US visa those with ANC membership have, until now, had to endure additional investigation.

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