Department of Home Affairs

New emigration statistics show that an increasing number of South Africans are leaving for Australia and New Zealand.

This is backed by local information from immigration companies who have also reported a rise in the number of queries from South Africans looking to move their families overseas.

The Department of Home Affairs does not keep record of South Africans who emigrate permanently; however, receiver countries do keep track of immigrants, which gives an indication of how many people are actually leaving.

This data shows that the UK is still the most popular choice for South African immigrants, while a growing number are also choosing to settle in Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand

The latest data from Stats NZ shows that there has been a sharp rise in South African migrants, with 8,200 people moving to the country between April 2018 and April 2019.

StatsNZ classifies migrants as overseas residents who arrive in Ne
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The 45-year-old Robert Masuku has been voting in the elections since 1994, but now a new turn has taken place.

The Department of Home Affairs informed him that he had to bring his late mother because otherwise he will be considered as an illegal immigrant.

If his late mother does not come, he cannot get a new ID document, said the department official.

When he took his daughter to the Department’s Mamelodi office last year to get an ID document because she was 18, the official informed him that he was on record as an illegal immigrant.

He was born in Nelspruit and has a green ID book, but no, he is illegal in the country unless he brings his late mother to the office.

The original article can be read in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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