Moving to a brand new country you’ve never lived in before can be tough.From finding a new job to setting up and furnishing a new home, it’s difficult to know what you won’t be able to live without when you get to the UK, or what you’ll wish you brought over.While everybody is different, sometimes […]
With emigration property sales at a 10-year high of 13.4% according to FNB’s latest report, chances are you know someone who has recently emigrated to the United Kingdom (UK) – or someone who is planning to. Here are the four most accessible visas that South Africans should consider in order to emigrate to the UK. […]
South Africa and the United Kingdom have a lot of shared history. A lot. It’s no surprise, then, that some of the world’s greatest modern history makers have both South African and British blood coursing through their veins. While both nations would love to take all the glory for themselves, here are some magnificent ‘mash […]
Making the decision to emigrate and move your family to a brand new country and culture is huge. Winding up life in SA and starting fresh in every area of your life at the same time is probably one of the most stressful life events you can experience, so it’s important to do all your […]
A brief scroll through Instagram reveals that exotic leisure travel has become a life goal of hipsters, millennials and, heck – pretty much everyone else. If you’re a travelholic, it’s time to investigate getting your hands on one of the most powerful passports in the world. While Australia, the United Kingdom, USA, Canada and New […]
After damage to the tourism sector since the implementation of the controversial birth certificate rule, the South African government has abandoned the regulation – but only for SA passport holders. The rule concerned any adult arriving or departing from South Africa travelling with children under the age of 18, requiring them to show an unabridged […]
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi eyes visa-free travel to the UK from SA. It’s been ten years since South African passport holders arrived on UK shores without requiring visas to enter the country, but the Department of Home Affairs is hoping to rectify the situation. According to Move Up managing director, Ryan Rennison, the UK revoked South […]
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex began their royal tour of South Africa with a visit to the Nyanga township in the Cape, kicking things off with separate speeches condemning the scourge of violence against women. Former Suits actress and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, spoke to a crowd in South Africa’s ‘murder capital’ of […]
Brexit has brought some seismic shifts to the United Kingdom’s (UK) immigration policies. One of the changes the UK government will be implementing shortly is an expansion of the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), which means that South Africans whose career paths match the SOL jobs, may find it easier to qualify to live and work […]
Current TLS tracking status: Disrupted. Last edited: 5 Sep 2019. We live in an ever-changing world. In our meeting with the Regional Manager of UKVI in Southern Africa, earlier this year, we were informed that the UKVI has taken over the development of their commercial agents’ website. South Africa knows them as Teleperformance (or TLS […]