Anyone know anything about Visa's/moving countries?
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Im wondering if anyone here knows anything at all about Visa's / moving countries. Im going to break this down as simple and quickly as I can:
We are trying to get a guy to move to South africa, where he would stay by me and likely get a job. He lives in canada, and one of the problems is that he is 16. He unfortunatly has no proper education either (As in, hes not stupid, but hes been failing school due to one too many problems)
I don't exactly want to go into the reasons why he wants to move here but if it helps I'll go into them if someone knows anything - my question is: Is such a move even possible, and if so, what Visa's/what needs to get done.
Im unfortunatly clueless on this entire matter so Im asking for advise/help everywhere, so if anyone knows about this stuff let me know and I could fill you in more if need be?
Thanks.
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Not sure how it works in Canada, but at least here to get a passport for minors (under 18) their applications must have both parents' signatures, copies of IDs, (& an affidavit if the parents arent married to each other). Having to do this now for my hubby's kids.
Your best bet is to check with the immigration office in your country.
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this is not something you want to rely on the internet for. Tell him to contact the relevant Canadian governmental branch. I am pretty sure in the UK the details are all on the governments website.
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Just to warn you, getting a work visa (and from what I understand this holds true in South Africa) is usually pretty difficult if you are unskilled labor. The only people I know who get work visas are usually sponsored by a university or company, who lists them as a "key employee" or "highly skilled" category. With unemployment around the world, I'd guess they're pretty tight right now.
http://www.southafrica.info/travel/docu ... ermits.htm
Friends that spent their youth country hopping and teaching English used tourist visas and worked illegally, taking cash under the table. The problem with tourist visas is that you have to return home for a certain amount of time every year requiring you to need someplace to live in your country of origin and have the cash for airfare.
From what I understand, being forcibly removed from a country is not at all as cool as it sounds.
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I'm assuming you have the parents' permission for this guy's attempt to emmigrate. Laws vary from place to place, but if that's not the case and he's not a legally emancipated minor you could be getting in all kinds of legal trouble just by discussing with him how to get him out of the country.
If you're a South African citizen or legal resident you should be able to find the local state agency in charge of giving out visas and the process to do so. If you can afford it, an immigration lawyer can definitely smooth the process if there is a legal path to what you intend.
I would think for a minor it would be much easier to get a student visa to continue his studies in SA, and then change his visa to one allowing him to work. Foreign students with legal status usually have an easy route to entering the local workforce after they finish studying, although that's usually applied to college graduates.
Again, this is just opinion based on my own experience with EU and US immigration laws, SA may be completely different and you would do best getting official information from a state agency.
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Hinty
this is not something you want to rely on the internet for. Tell him to contact the relevant Canadian governmental branch. I am pretty sure in the UK the details are all on the governments website.
I know. For now Im just getting as much information as possible beforehand because of my utter lack of knowledge to help both him and myself before any actual action is taken.
Gurb
I'm assuming you have the parents' permission for this guy's attempt to emmigrate. Laws vary from place to place, but if that's not the case and he's not a legally emancipated minor you could be getting in all kinds of legal trouble just by discussing with him how to get him out of the country.
This is where one of the many problems lie. His parents do not care at all about anything and its likely they are just going to kick him out soon. He is on the path or road of drugs and worse, constantly being dragged into it because of personal or family problems. I know he wants to change and I want to try and help him but as it is, if he stays where he is its just going to get worse, and theres no one there to help him. I think I almost sounded like a druid talking there :shock:
I'll look into the student visa's as well. This is definatly going to be tricky and difficult so thanks for all the help so far guys. In the end he/I will have to go check with the offices of course and thats whats going to be done, I just want as much info as possible and to see what can or cannot be done.
Thanks!