Court
Action against
Home Affairs
An
indirect
success for
our industry
and clients
has been a
Cape High Court judgment of late November, in
which the
judge accused
the Department
of
“administrative
bungling” and
has given it
30 working
days to
finalise about
100
applications
submitted to
it as far back
as February
2010. In the
proceedings
Home Affairs
brought a host
of tactics to
its defence:
it claimed
that the
applications
had actually
already been
processed,
kept
submitting
incorrect and
incomplete
lists, added
that internal
investigations
had delayed
the
processing,
and so on. The
explanations
were rejected
by the judge
who said the
constitution
placed an
obligation on
public
administration
to adhere to a
high standard
of
professional
ethics.
“Despite
the
(department’s)
protestations
to the
contrary, the
inescapable
inference is
that,
irrespective
of whether
they have the
best will in
the world,
they have
dealt with the
applications
of the
applicants’
various
clients in a
manner which
can only be
described as
‘administrative
bungling’.”
One can
only hope
that Home
Affairs will
take this
judgment as a
warning and
put additional
focus on its
performance
regarding the
processing of
temporary
residence
applications.
http://www.imcosa.co.za/en/news/160-year-end-immigration-update.html
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