Posts tagged: South Africa

Help??? Can I Get A Tourist Visa For Australia From New Zealand If I’m A South African?

By , July 13, 2010

I am currently on holiday in NZ and I want to visit Australia before flyin back to South Africa. How do I do this the easiest way? I can’t apply through ETA, I’m not eligible. Help?

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Can I Get My Transit Visa In New Zealand If I Am Visiting For 2 Months And Returning Home Via Australia?

By , January 13, 2010

Hi there, My question is this. I am flying from UK to New Zealand, and i am a South African citizen. My ticket leaving New Zealand is back to South Africa, however it might be via Australia, in which case i would need a transit visa. Will i be let into New Zealand without my transit visa to Australia? I plan on obtaining this transit visa when i am in New Zealand.

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Australian Immigration Population

By , January 13, 2010

Yearly, there are hundred thousands people from all over the world are applying for an Australia visas. Great number of people are traveling down south to work, study, do business, reunite with relatives and loved ones, refresh or to stay permanently. And this massive immigration greatly affects Australia, no one can say if it’s negative or not. The country became multicultural and the emerging lifestyle inside is from Britain. Why? Simply because the largest foreign settler in Australia were from United Kingdom. Other notable cultures boosting in the land of opportunities were from China and other European countries.

Australia’s current population is about 22 million, and one quarter of it is made up of migrants. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this year’s growth in the Australian population as a whole is the largest since Federation. The number grew by more than 400,000 and from this, immigrants contributed more than half of the said growth just within a year.

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South Africans in New Zealand

By , January 13, 2010

I am a born and bred Capetonian and I too left about 10 years ago. I remember saying years ago that I would never leave South Africa. I had friends go to Australia and Canada while I was at primary school during the 70′s and high school during the 80′s. I only ever heard of people going to New Zealand about 11 years ago when my cousin left. Today there are thousands of South Africans in New Zealand.

At that time I had absolutely no intentions of leaving South Africa. I absolutely loved the place and still do to this day. If I look back and ask myself why exactly I left? I have to be very honest with you and say it was because of boredom and a serious lack of travel. Bored with my job and the day to day drone life can have at times.

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