Minister of Home Affairs Malusi
Gigaba on Monday launched the Johannesburg Visa Facilitation Centre. The
department has established 11 Visa Facilitation Centers across all nine
provinces with Gauteng Western Cape
Minister Gigaba said the new system
introduced in the department will go a long way in helping with curbing
corruption.
Gigaba said the home affairs
department is a learning department, so the previous visa regulation
application system had some elements of corruption. In this way we will be able
to curb possible acts of corruption.
Meanwhile Minister Gigaba said they
are building on the work they have done since they embarked on the
modernization of Home Affairs by bringing more technological innovation to
improve services.
He added that there has been a great
response to the new system with 4 000 applications received in June
alone.
Visa applicants have been urged to
bear with the department as this is a new system and is bound to have technical
glitches.
Gigaba added that the hand-over of
applications to the VFS has been very smoothly and the results are beginning to
show.
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