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» Can I visit South Africa without a visa?

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Albert
Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:18 EST
Bussiness VISA
Hi
I working in Germany with Philippine Passport, my company is sending me to South Africa to transact with the Customer, is it possible to get the visa in the Philippines while i am on vacation? Because, I will be home in January 5, 2016, can i get the visa in a short period? How many days would it take?
Please feedback.
Angelo The Explorer
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:36 EST
Updated Visa Requirements for Filipinos Travelling to SOUTH AFRICA
Good day to all!

I just got my visa to South Africa recently and I also have updated the visa requirements. Please check my article:



Thanks so much and hope this helps!
salman
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:21 EST
visa for SA
Hi
I have my wife in Philippines I want to bring get her here please guide me for visa which visa we must apply and how long it will take to get visa
gill_park
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:16 EST
Retired visa
Good day!
a korean couple living in the philippines and have a business wanted to apply for retired visa (temporary) to south africa

they have business and property here in the philippines
is it possible they will apply for that visa at Philippines?
what necessary documents they need to provide
They have 2 kids and one filipino nanny
Lanz
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:15 EDT
Me and my American bf planning to visit SA next feb 2016. I was an x-ofw to Angola so my passport had a transit visa stamp from SA. Will it be of help to get visa approval easily?
Abdool
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 06:01 EDT
Replies
i have sent e mail requesting closing date in december and opening date in january i have not received any reply should i assume you will be open through out
jetmontecillo
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:09 EDT
Tourist Visa
How long will it take me to have get a visa and what are the documents i need to get? Also do i need to book my flights first? Please give me advise My boyfriend wnated me to spent christmas with him and his family. Please mail me for the info montecillojet@yahoo.com..Thank you
Zaldivar Acodesin
Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:07 EDT
Inquire- student Visa
Hello Ma'am. Do we need to book flights first before we apply for a visa? and is there an online application system in which we can apply in? Thank you
Edgardo Vizcarra
Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:14 EDT
SA citizen stuck in Manila
Wilhelm Johan van Greunen, is my son, who has been stuck in Manila in the Philippines for almost a year. He worked for Bauer for a long time.

He was a supervisor for Bauer Foundations and his contract was ended without Bauer following the correct proceedings according to the contract, where upon the Philippine Labour Department helped him to get a lawyer and go to court with the case.
The court case dragged on and on until he finally won the case but only received very little money after the lawyer took her money. He was living in a zinc kaia on top of someone's house, until I could get a bit more money to him. He was bitten by spiders there. He has been stabbed in the leg in order to be robbed when he was without lodgings and on the streets and now is ill [I suspect typhoid fever again].
Then the business started with the Immigration Department of the Philippines. They took his passport, and said the Commissioner of Immigration needed to sign his papers to go back to SA, and he has been going there every week for months so that he can fetch his passport and police clearance papers [because of the case against Bauer], but there's always an excuse. He then went to the South African embassy who tried to hurry things along, but to no avail.They said they can only do so much and that he must just go to emigration again.
In the meantime, we, my husband and I have been sending every penny we can to him via Western Union Bank so that he can pay for food and lodging. We are older people and we live off interest from investment and my grant.
We bought his air ticket back when Immigration told him he can fetch his clearance papers 5 weeks ago, still no papers. We had to pay another R5000 to move his flight forward. Again, the same thing keeps happening and he now has a flight that is open for which he still has to pay the penalty to Kenya Airlines, which I haven't got.
He needs money to survive this week, or somewhere to stay and food to eat. His clothes and things are at the hotel for which we were paying, and he had to skip the hotel because they would not let him out of the building. All he has with him is his clothing on his back, his cellphone and laptop with a broken screen. His shoes are broken. If his clearance papers are signed by the next flight or the next [maybe in 2 weeks].
He is on the streets, just wandering around day and night.
NOW...the hotel Paradis in Chiapo where he was staying has threatened him with a fraud case against him, but they were holding him hostage and the bill just kept going up. All his stuff is there.and he is on the streets because we have no more money to give him.
We have sold some stuff to help but I cannot expect my husband to keep giving from his monthly interest for Wilhelm as he is not his father, who died when he was small, and has to support us with this and the interest rates are very low now.. I have loaned money from friends and had to pay them back, but cannot get anything from my bank as we do not work and am older than pensionable age.
He hasn't eaten in a week, he says and doesn't care any more. He had to skip the hotel and go to tjhe SA embassy who have been of no help and put him in the street and said he must just wait.
His name is Wilhelm Johan van Greunen ID NO:6611065007088 and is known by our embassy in Manila.
Please could you get him some help as the embassy say they can do no more.
He asked Immigration there to inter him and then deport him but to no avail. We suspect that they want more and more money from us which we haven't got.
Thank you so much, from a distraught mother, Magda Smit 011 391 2128
4 Goudsnip street, Birch acres 1618.
Wimpie's tel no is:00639064227022 and I only know that Emigration in Manila have his passport
amalia pisig florano
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:19 EDT
procedures to visit africa and cost
good day can i know procedures to visit Africa for good and how much will it cost?

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