Tuesday 22 November 2011

Permanent Residency to become Discretionary?

Mr Apleni said that he would not like to be obstructive, but felt obliged to point out that the DHA was in the process of de-linking the issuing permanent residence from the number of years that a person had been lawfully living in the country. DHA wanted to have a discretion to question why a person was needed in the country, despite what they were doing here, and to ascertain what benefit would accrue to the country by having such a person. If (human trafficking) victims wanted to apply in terms of Section 31(2)(b) of the Immigration Act, then there was no problem.

http://www.pmg.org.za/report/20111115-deliberations-prevention-and-combating-trafficking-persons-bill

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