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PASSOP was founded in 2007 by a group of Zimbabweans and spearheaded by Braam Hanekom. Though originally established in response to increased tensions between Zimbabwean foreign nationals fleeing Robert Mugabe's increasingly repressive regime and South African citizens who blamed them for crime and unemployment. [3]
Issuing visas for visitors to South Africa (although visa applications pass through embassies or consulates which are part of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation). Managing immigration to South Africa and naturalisation of permanent immigrants. Handling refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa.
Thomas Duncan Greenlees FRSE (29 September 1858 [1] – 22 January 1929) was a Scottish psychiatrist who had a strong association with South Africa. He headed the Medical Association of South Africa for many years and was Inspector of Asylums for the Cape of Good Hope. [2] He did much to promote the de-stigmatisation of insanity.
Bearers enjoy certain visa-free travel privileges extended by signatories to the convention. However, as a refugee travel document is not a regular national passport, some problems may be encountered by the holder from time to time, for example due to non-familiarity of airline staff with such documents.
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As of 2024, South African citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 106 countries and territories, ranking the South African passport 47th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index. [1] Where visa-free access is permitted, such access is not necessarily a right, and admission is at the discretion of border enforcement officers.
A foreigner who remains in South Africa beyond the expiry of his/her visa and has not applied for a valid status is an illegal foreigner in terms of the South African Immigration Act. [ 23 ] An overstayer will upon departure be declared an undesirable person in terms of section 30(1)(f) of the Immigration Act.
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.