Examples of Refugee Reception Office in a sentence
The people who were undocumented and who also lost their permits were assisted by the Maitland Refugee Reception Office in Cape Town.
Considering their intention to ultimately apply a very narrow interpretation of the Refugee Act, this is hardly appropriate – the mass issuing of ASPs at the Musina Refugee Reception Office in particular, is clearly being used as a “temporary stop gap measure”, in the face of no obvious current alternatives.51 SALHR reports that ASPs are being issued in Musina almost as a routine within a day or two of waiting, and without any rigorous screening prior to their issue.
According to s 21 of the [RA],6 every person who wishes to obtain asylum must apply in person to a Refugee Reception Officer (the Officer) at any Refugee Reception Office (RRO).
He was provided with an asylum transit permit in accordance with s 23 of the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 so that he could proceed to a Refugee Reception Office to apply for asylum.
She did in fact have one and, as no hearing of her appeal had occurred prior to her attending at the Refugee Reception Office in Maitland on 14 October 2011, she was entitled to have her permit extended until arrangements could be made for her appeal.
There have also been cases protecting asylum seekers from a failure to renew permits issued at a different Refugee Reception Office in the country: see Ziegler (note 28 above) 77 and the cases cited at footnote 56.
If an asylum seeker declares his or her intention to apply for asylum when entering South Africa through an official port of entry, they are entitled to a ‘Section 23’ transit permit,52 which gives them 14 days leave to remain in the country, in which time they are intended to travel to a Refugee Reception Office and lodge a formal asylum claim.
The appellant stated that he attempted to gain access to the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office during that period and in the months thereafter but that he did not succeed due to the lengthy queues.
An application for asylum must be made in person in accordance with the prescribed procedures to a Refugee Reception Officer at any Refugee Reception Office.
The respondentssuggested that there should be an undertaking by a lawful resident of South Africa to provide the appellant with shelter, that he should pay R 2000 as security to the nearest inspection or Refugee Reception Office and that he should report to the nearest Refugee Reception Office every Tuesday and Friday pending the outcome of his appeal to the Refugee Appeal Board.