There are some Visa Agents out there who have been sponsoring multiple tens of people for a Social Visa (which isn’t strictly legal) and they’ve taken the money but haven’t processed the visas or extensions despite holding on to passports (all of which is illegal.)
And that has now led to a slew of issues around overstaying, which you can probably guess comes with healthy fines and possible deportation and incredible stress.
Once this situation surfaced a number of foreigners began reporting Visa Agents to the Police and Immigration offices. And here’s where red tape suffocates common sense because the response from some Immigration officers appears to have been that they couldn’t accept overstay payments or even release overstay billing until the sponsor has appeared with the foreigner at an immigration interview.
And that has a zero chance of ever happening because the Visa Agent isn’t supposed to be sponsoring so many people and hasn’t actually done anything to process any visas.
SNAFU doesn’t come close to describing the mess.
Now, it appears that some foreigners are in detention and are being deported and blacklisted, while the Visa Agents who have caused the mess in the first place are free to continue their fraudulent operations. Those affected hope that immigration and other relevant departments will investigate this and provide positive solutions to those foreigners who are clearly feeling desperate.
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