South Africa: Home Affairs Provides Update On Extension of Asylum Seeker Visas and Refugee Status

press release

The Department of Home Affairs and its partners are calling upon qualifying asylum seekers and refugees to renew their expired visas and status online before the deadline of 30 June 2021.

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, extended the validity of asylum seeker visas and refugee statuses which expired during the lockdown to 30 June 2021. The online extension is aimed at providing the extension of visa service in a manner that contributes to limiting the spread of Covid-19.

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