Another lawsuit against Home Affairs over foreign permit delays

Business Day reports this application was launched on 8 January, the same day Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma indicated that she did not want immigration practitioners to be involved in representing applicants in the Home Affairs offices. In his founding affidavit, Isaacson said that in the past, temporary residence and other applications took up to 30 working days to finalise. He said that in December 2009, the department decided to centralise the adjudication of applications to a hub at the Home Affairs head office in Pretoria. As a result, 'hundreds, if not thousands, of applications were lost, became untraceable or took months to finalise. In June 2010 the hub simply did not have enough officials to deal with the large amount of administration that was required of it.' Full Business Day report