STEFANIE DE SAUDE DARBANDI: Home affairs puts family in a desperate race against time
Department engages in pointless power plays four years after Constitutional Court ruling
25 May 2023 - 05:00
Four years after a family won a Constitutional Court challenge against an immigration regulation, the department of home affairs has taken no action in their case, forcing them to make desperate appeals for help as time runs out for them to visit an elderly relative who has cancer.
The Constitutional Court may be the highest court in the land but even this esteemed institution appears to have no power to make home affairs move faster on applications made by foreign spouses of SA citizens or permanent residents...
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