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Planning a trip to the UK on your SA passport? Get your visa before your ticket

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'We advise applicants not to book flights before they receive their visa, not least so they can avoid extra expense in having to change their plans.'

If you have a South African passport and you’re planning a trip to the UK, do not buy your ticket until you have your visa.

So that in itself is not a red flag. But when Meryl responded to an advert for a Claremont apartment and was sent an email asking her to pay a R1,000 application fee into a private account, she was extremely wary. “I’m so hesitant to do the EFT as I have not met the man — he claims to be managing the unit on behalf of the owner,” she told me.

When asked to pay money to a complete stranger, please be ultra suspicious — the internet is crawling with fakers.If you have a South African passport and you’re planning a trip to the UK, do not buy your ticket first. The “travel ban” which the UK imposed on those travelling from Southern African countries in November, lifting it only from December 15, played havoc with people’s travel plans.

The result? A huge backlog. And all those applicants can’t leave SA for any other destination as long as the commission has possession of their passports. The high commission’s head of communications, Isabel Potgieter, told TimesLIVE that visa processing teams had been working through weekends and public holidays to clear the backlog.

 

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