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Home Affairs confirms 90 000 refugee appellants unaccounted for in South Africa | The Citizen | SA News

Home Affairs’ Refugee Appeals Authority says tens of thousands of appellants between the ages of 25 and 49 could not be found.

The number of refugee status applicants who have gone missing is far greater than the number who have seen their appeals through to their conclusion.

The Department of Home Affairs’ Refugee Appeals Authority (RAA) made this admission while briefing the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on the status of its appeals backlog.

Tuesday’s committee meeting featured several presentations detailing the status of the refugee and asylum system.

Much of the information shared referred to Section 22 permits, which grant temporary asylum-seeker visas…

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