Are you looking to build a better future and provide financial security for yourself and your South African spouse or partner and your family? Do you have a dream of running your own business and driving it to success? With limited options for operating businesses in SA without the necessary documentation, expatriates are often unsure of the best route to take to secure the future of their businesses and families.
As a business owner, not being able to build your business and secure your financial wellbeing with your partner/spouse in South Africa can be the cause of various tensions in your life, be it business or family life. As an expatriate, married to or in a life-long partnership with a South African citizen or permanent resident, wanting to obtain long-term residency in SA and to secure your family and future business, applying for a business visa is not necessarily the only applicable option.
Obtaining the Section 11(6) Visitor’s Visa with authorisation to conduct your own business and stay with your SA citizen or permanent resident spouse or life partner could be the opportunity to realise your dreams.
Many expatriates find love in South Africa and then proceed to marry or enter long-term relationships with South African citizens or South African permanent residents. Without the necessary residency status, planning long-term with your partner can be limiting and frustrating and many often find that they cannot equally contribute financially to the household, business, and family in general, compared to their SA spouse or long-term partner. Furthermore, many expatriates lose out on a lot of great opportunities due limitations on their residency status.
A big issue with expats who want to build businesses in SA and contribute to the greater economy is that, acquiring a business visa can be difficult if one does not meet all the necessary requirements. The good news is that acquiring a business visa is not necessarily the only option for expats to conduct their own businesses in SA. If you are married to or in a life-partnership with an SA citizen or SA permanent resident spouse, you can apply for a visitor’s visa with authorisation to conduct your own business and stay with your SA spouse/life-partner.
Applying for this visa is much less complex than a business visa and further does not provide the strain and restrictions of proving the minimum capital contribution required for a business visa. Furthermore, this visa enables you to achieve the goal of obtaining long-term residency in SA allowing you to conduct your own business, whilst you live happily with your SA spouse/life-partner, and equally contributing the running of the household and family, thereby taking away that feeling of inadequacy.
To see if you qualify for this visa, please click on the quick assessment form and we will contact you for a free assessment.
TESTIMONIAL
One of our clients, Ray*, came to us needing assistance with an SA visa to be able to run his own business. His dream has always been to have his own business in South Africa and be able to contribute to the economy, whilst providing job opportunities to the SA community that he has also benefited from. He mentioned that he does not have the minimum required investment amount to be able to apply for a business visa and was heartbroken and demotivated about not having the funds available to realise his dream.
Upon further consulting with him and discussing his circumstances, as is our procedure, it was determined that he is married to a South African citizen, and he would qualify for the Visitor’s Visa with authorisation to conduct his own business and stay with his SA citizen spouse on that basis. Our client had no idea that this type of visa existed. He was so excited about the fact that he could have his own business, and furthermore, apply for a visa with a less cumbersome process of application. He was already delighted by this so when we informed him of the further good news that on their 5th year anniversary with his spouse, he would be able to apply for permanent residency his face lit up, at the thought of all the limitless possibilities once he obtained his PR! We assisted our client from going to no motivation to having a lot of hope for his dream business.
He now runs his business in SA, lives happily with his spouse and is looking forward to apply for permanent residency once the system is open for applications.
If you are ready to change your life for the better like our client here, who is now able to have a valid status in SA, build his own business, and be able to provide for his family with no stress, now is the time to act.
*Real name withheld for identity protection.
If you would like to apply for a Visitor’s Visa with authorisation to conduct your own business and stay with your SA citizen or permanent resident spouse, or if you would like any further information, you are more than welcome to complete the quick assessment below and one of our qualified immigration lawyers will contact you personally and let you know what visa you qualify for, for free.
