Assistance & Advice

The assistance which the Come Home Campaign offers you, includes:

• Help with efforts to find employment in South Africa;
• Advice about the South African registration of children born abroad;
• Advice about obtaining immigration documentation for foreign spouses joining South Africans here;
• Information about the determination of the validity of remigrants' South African citizenship;
• Advice about the shipping of household goods;
• Advice about the importation of vehicles;
• Advice about the importation of pets;
• Help with getting a South African evaluation of qualifications obtained abroad;
• Advice about the conversion of foreign driver's licences;
• Advice about foreign documents which might be required in South Africa upon return;
• Contact with local estate agents;
• Contact with local financial advisors;
• General advice about schools, studies, medical specialists, medical schemes, church denominations, sport clubs, labour legislation and any other information which might be required.

The Come Home Campaign also distributes four free e-publications, namely:

• Come Home Newsletter – A monthly newsletter which is distributed in both Afrikaans and English. It is targeted at people who are in the process of returning and informs them about the latest issues concerning the return process, as well as South Africa in general;
• Biltong Bulletin – Also a monthly newsletter, published both in Afrikaans and English for South Africans who are living abroad and would not necessarily like to remigrate, but are still committed to South Africa and would like to remain involved here;
• Biltong Bites – A daily newsletter comprising the headlines of several local daily papers. Previous numbers are not available;
• IMFO – A quarterly publication with information for remigrants and immigrants regarding life in South Africa and the local cost of living. The latest issue can be downloaded from our "Immigration" web page.

Copies of previous editions of the newsletters are available by request of from the "Newsletters" web page.

You are most welcome to contact us by e-mail at alana@afriforum.co.za or by sending a fax to 012-6641281.