South Africa’s visa backlog putting billions in investment at risk

The slow pace of visa approvals for foreign experts and CEOs might lead to multinational corporations investing elsewhere, says Jean Claude Lasserre, the chairperson of the French Trade Advisors., Lasserre said that the slow processes at the Department of Home Affairs, paired with a backlog of unprocessed visas, have left many highly skilled professionals, including process engineers and financial experts from entering the country.

Slow visa processes are a shared concern among many multinationals, not just French companies, said Lasserre. This is why there have been strong calls for the Department of Home Affairs as well as the Department of Trade and Industry to address the issue. Getting a working visa has recently been made even harder to get by the Department of Employment and Labour , say immigration experts atThe legal experts said that employers must ensure that they comply with new requirements to avoid any administrative delays in the processing of visa applications.

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