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A very genuine case I must say.hopefloats wrote:Hi Mtuckersa
Thanks v much for taking the time to answer - I really appreciate it.
We had considered this in the first place, but Johannesburg is a very dangerous place and none of us want our mum living on her own - especially at her age. We know too many people who have been not only mugged, robbed and car-jacked (including my brother - with a gun in his mouth!), but also some who have been shot in their homes. As I mention in the points above, our mother has been mugged (at knife point), and when she was living on her own, had a bullet through her roof one night, and one through her window on another occasion.
A few months ago a friend of ours was upstairs in his study on the computer, and turned round to find three guys had walked into the room behind him (bearing in mind this is despite security, burglar bars etc), he was pistol whipped and tied up and of course the house was robbed(he was very lucky he wasn't killed).
There are many incidents like this, and there is no way we could let our mother live on her own. We did mention this in our original appeal - that it's too dangerous for our mum to live on her own there.
Thanks for the reply anyway.
I am not sure who applied for your mother settlement whether you or your sister? If its the sister that would be supporting her here then she should apply but she should also prove that she is unmarried because to my knowledge if she is married then her case would be very weak. Also you (I mean your sister) need to prove that financially your mother is dependant on her by sending her money to SA and keeping all the transaction records and your mother bank statements in SA (you hsould submit these with the case) and finally, you should prove that your mother has serious medical conditions and needs regular attention (letters from doctors / consultants would do) at this age. Without these its not possible that you would get settlemtn visa for her.hopefloats wrote:PS: We did use a lawyer for the appeal hearing. I haven't spoken to him yet since we received the letter today.