Here’s how home affairs plans to handle asylum seeker applications from November
Following a failed attempt at processing asylum seeker applications last week, the department of home affairs has proposed a phased structure registration and appointment model.
However, Home Affairs will use the receipt to instruct all officials and border management authorities that a holder of a valid receipt is not to be removed or found and is not to be arrested or detained solely for being in the country without a visa, pending lodging and final determination.
Refugee reception offices were overwhelmed within days of the directive being issued; home affairs officials were put at risk, and serious threats to public safety and order emerged as South Africans protested the judgment.
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