UK gives green light to travellers from SA, but now there's a huge visa backlog

on people arriving from South Africa, but for South African passport holders, massive delays in the issuing of visas means their travel plans are still up in the air.

“When I applied for my visa, I was told it would take up to 20 working days to process, but last week I received an e-mail from UK Visa and Immigration apologising for the delay, which, they said, had been caused by the travel ban,” she told TimesLIVE.“So my reality is now that even though British Airways has increased the number of flights available and I can now fly to the UK, I can’t actually do so without my visa, and there is no indication of when I will get it,” she said.

“Should I not get my visa in time, which unfortunately seems very likely, my husband and son [who have British passports] will fly to the UK on Tuesday and I will follow when and if I can.Given that she applied for the visa two weeks before SA was placed on the UK’s red list, her application should have be considered by now, Collingridge said.

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One day many will go to court.

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