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Your story doesn't make sense. As far as I know there is no UK immigration control at South African airports, so how could he be stopped for not having the correct visa at a South African airport? Additionally, South African passport holders do not require a visa to enter the UK as tourists, so he could have just said he was going on holiday.He has since travelled in and out of the country to Europe with no problems however, in January, when he went back to SA on holiday, they refused to allow him to leave SA at the airport on the grounds that his sponsorship visa on his passport could not be seen on the computer!
Again your story makes no sense. Ask for his passport back? Who on earth took it? Was it South African immigration officers?He has now asked for his passport back so that he can try to find a way to get back to the UK in order to obtain another sponsor.
Still doesn't explain why they were denied boarding in a South African airport though.olisun wrote:Sound like the person applied for WP and did not apply for FLR...
The first part that seems odd is the question of the South African authorities looking for (never mind not being able to see) his UK visa/work permit "on the system". What system? As far as I know, UK visas wouldn't appear on any South Afridan "system", but I stand to be corrected on that. Also, South African citizens don't need any sort of prior entry clearance or visa to enter the UK as a visitor. Did he indicate on an embarkation card or by having a single (i.e. one-way) ticket to the UK that he was going to the UK other than as a visitor?Janine wrote:Hi Dawie
Apparently, he had his passport taken off him by the South African authorities (the people who check your passport on the system before you get your hand luggage xray'd). He thinks that they took his passport off him because they couldnt see his work permit visa on the system.
Does that not make sense? Im confused now..
That's what I should have thought. In addition, it is not the business of the South African immigration authorities to be "policing" the UK's borders or to be involved with UK immigration at all.Dawie wrote:Christophe, as a South African citizen and someone who regularly travels between South Africa and the UK I can tell you there is no "system" that South African immigration authorities can look up UK immigration details in.
What does the "B" stand for?Also, does anyone know of a good immigration lawyer / visa agency in SA who will be able to help him as the one he was using was completely useless.. (started with B..)
I shouldn't think that they could, and that is obviously the consensus here. I'm not sure why you think that they would be able to - it is a UK work permit that is in question and it was the South African immigration authorities who were looking on their computer, which would contain information that is pertinent to people's status in South Africa, not in other countries.Janine wrote:Are you saying that they couldnt see whether or not he has a work permit on the system?