v Rustenburg: Von Wielligh 26, Bo Dorp; Kimberly: Unit 3, Building 2, Agri Office Park, N12

V Polokwane: 45 Nikkel Street, Industrial

v Nelspruit: Office 5F, Nedbank building, 30 Brown street

v George: Unit 5, Royal Eagle, 5 Progress Street

v Bloemfontein: Suite 4, The Park, 14 Reid Street, Westdene

EXPIRED “DZP” PERMITS:

Zimbabwean nationals traveling on expired “DZP” permits won’t be declared undesirable at ports of entry, or arrested for being illegal if they can be found in South Africa for being in possession of expired “DZP” permits.

How To Apply for ZSP

Measure 1: Application for Specific Permit that is Zimbabwean – ZSP can be

found on-line.

Apply for a visa or permit online on the VFS Website. Practice the steps below to apply for a visa or permit at the Centre:

You will need to fill the correct on-line form.

Schedule an appointment after application form filling.

Pay fees that are applicable by EFT, Prepayment at Standard Bank divisions or by Credit / Debit card at the centre. No payments will likely be collected at the Visa Facilitation Centre in cash.

Check all required documents necessary for the application…

Measure 2:

In the day of your appointment, plan to arrive 15 minutes early at the Visa Facilitation Centre, Bring your appointment letter and records, together with a valid passport or travel document.

You may collect a token, when you arrive at the Visa Facilitation Centre. Wait until your token is called to create your application. Once the visa application procedure is finished you’ll be issued with an acknowledgment receipt. Please keep your receipt safe as you will need this later to gather your files. The decision will be handed over on submitting this receipt.

Important note: You may not be able to submit further records once your application was submitted in the Visa Facilitation Centre. The document that you submitted at the time is going to be the only records that are considered.

Step 3:

You’ll need to arrange for supporting files for your visa or permit application. The Services page will help you to find guidance for your visa class if you usually do not know, which supporting documents to supply.

Step 4:

Enroll your fingerprints and photograph in the Visa Facilitation Centre. This includes a digital finger scan (all 10 digits) plus an electronic photo. The finger scans the process uses an electronic scanner. No ink, compound or liquid. You must make sure that your fingertips are free from any forms of ornamentation ( for instance, henna), cuts, abrasions or alternative markings as these may affect your capability to supply adequate finger scans. Your digital photograph must be taken with full face and without sunglasses or tinted spectacles, or head covering unless it is worn for medical or religious reasons. Your face should be clearly visible with no hair across the eyes. We cannot if you do not submit your biometric information, process your visa. Babies and all kids will even provide their biometric data as required by Department of Home Affairs.

Step 5:

Select whether you would prefer to have a representative collects the conclusion on your behalf or to roll up your documents in person in the Visa Facilitation Centre. Original passport is required to accumulate the decision. In case passport that is primary is unavailable during the time of set, VFS Global shan’t handover the choice to the applicant or representative. A representative should carry an authorization letter with the applicant’s passport number followed by name and ID number of the representative amassing the application and name of him. The representative is requested to take a duplicate of the ID together with the ability letter which will be kept by VFS Global.

Zimbabweans can rekindle SA document

Pretoria – Zimbabweans working in South Africa can start next week, rekindling their work permits that were special, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Thursday.

“In August, I announced the establishment of the Zimbabwean Special Permit (ZSP) of 2014, allowing Zimbabwean holders of this specific permit to work, conduct company or study in South Africa for three years, until the ending of December 2017,” he said in Pretoria.

“Just the roughly 245 000 holders of the Dispensation for Zimbabweans Project (DZP) are eligible to apply for the ZSP.”

In June, Gigaba announced that VFS Global, a world-wide outsourcing and technology services’ specialist for diplomatic missions and authorities, had been named to control visa and permit applications in South Africa.

On Thursday, he said the company was ready to process the Zimbabwean immigrants.

“All the 10 ZSP application centers have been secured by VFS. These contain completely new centers in Durban, KwaZulu Natal; Cape Town, Western Cape; Polokwane, Limpopo; and Midrand, Gauteng. The remaining six centers are in George, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Nelspruit, and Rustenburg,” he said.

A total of 120 staffs would process ZSP adjudications.

Around 250 000 Zimbabweans were issued four-year work permits below the DZP in 2010.

Gigaba said South Africa was under strain from economic migrants from the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

“We were trying to regularize the entry and departure of these nationals into our state. Instead of crossing the fences and entering through unusual means they are able to enter through a recognized port of entry,” he said.

Visitors from the SADC region had a 90-day visa exemption annually.

“If you stay longer than 90 days in a calendar year you’ll be considered to get overstayed, and you’ll currently be liable for penalties as employing in the 1/8new 3/8 immigration regulation,” he said.

“We’ve been insisting that fellow African nations must collaborate with us by identifying their nationals, supply them with passports and we both manage the movement.”

Gigaba said immigration regulations around the region needed to be harmonized so no nation carried a disproportionate weight of financial migrants.

Gigaba said the approaching documentation of Zimbabweans would not be characterized by chaos, as happened in 2010. This is 2014, and we’re ready for it.

“People are going to be invited for interviews. Nobody is going to jump the queue or bribe their way,” he said.

The applications would cost R870.

“People consider this fee is fair in comparison with visas and licenses of similar length.”

Zimbabwe experienced a mass exodus of citizens following land seizures as well as the contested 2008 elections in which President Robert Mugabe retained office. The market was plunged into the downturn characterized by hyperinflation.