SA to help fast track visas for Nigerian business
There have been anecdotal complaints of passports spending months at SA missions in Nigeria and talk of deliberate delays for unknown reasons.
05 December 2022 - 17:12
SA’s missions in Nigeria have laid on extra staff to speed up the visa-issuing process for business people and academics wanting to come to the country.
SA’s consul-general in Lagos, Bobby Moroe, told Business Day: “As far as visas are concerned, we have made tremendous progress in Nigeria. Home affairs has deployed two additional staff members [in the consular section] to try to assist with the backlog we’ve been facing as far as the issuance of visas is concerned,” he said...
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