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Entry Permit Class E - Prospecting or Mining

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What investment option or options qualify?

The qualifying activity is prospecting for minerals or mining in Eswatini, alone or in partnership, with any necessary prospecting or mining right or licence obtained or assured.

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What official minimum amount, tier or threshold applies to each relevant option?

The requirement is qualitative: the applicant must have, in their own right and at their full and free disposition, sufficient capital and other resources for the purpose. The application asks for details of capital and income available, sources of income and present locality of capital.

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Limits of the record
  • No numeric minimum amount or tier is stated in the captured sources.
  • Government permit fees (Second Schedule) were not separated out in this answer.

How long must the investment be maintained and what continuing ownership, investment or physical-presence conditions are important?

The engagement in prospecting or mining must be of benefit to Eswatini, and the permit depends on continuing the activity: it ceases to be valid if, without written approval of an immigration officer, the holder fails to start the activity within fourteen days of issue or entry (whichever is later, or another period on the permit), ceases it, or engages in any other activity. No minimum holding period for the capital and no physical-presence rule are stated.

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Limits of the record
  • No minimum holding period for the capital and no physical-presence rule are stated.
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    and whose engagement in that prospecting or mining will be of benefit to Swaziland.
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    (1) Where an entry permit, other than an entry permit of class I or J has been issued to a person, and that person, without having obtained the written approval of an immigration officer — (a) has failed to engage, within fourteen days of the date of issue of the entry permit or such other period as may be specified on the permit, or of that per- son’s entry into Swaziland, whichever is the later, in the employment, occu- pation, trade, business or profession in respect of which that entry permit was issued; or
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    (b) has ceased to engage in the said employment, occupation, trade, business or profession; or (c) has engaged in any employment, occupation, trade, business or profession, whether or not for remuneration or profit, other than the said employment, occupation, trade, business or profession, that entry permit shall thereupon cease to be valid

Which family members can be included where officially stated, and what broad residence/work rights result?

An entry-permit holder may apply to the Chief Immigration Officer in Form 6 for a dependant's pass for any of his dependants. The dependant's pass is deemed to expire thirty days after the dependant engages in employment.

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Limits of the record
  • The source does not define which relatives count as dependants beyond the dependency conditions.

What status is obtained, how is it renewed, what longer-term residence/citizenship direction is officially stated, and what happens to the investment when relevant?

Validity is at the Chief Immigration Officer's discretion and may be renewed on payment of the renewal fee, but an entry permit may not be issued or renewed for more than five years from the date of issue. A permit issued to a person outside Eswatini lapses if the person does not enter within six months of issue, extendable by up to six months. No longer-term residence or citizenship direction is stated, nor what happens to the investment on exit.

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Limits of the record
  • No longer-term residence or citizenship direction is stated for Class E.
  • What happens to the investment on exit is not stated.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    11. The period of validity of any entry permit shall be at the discretion of the Chief Immi- gration Officer but may be renewed for further periods on the payment of the renewal fee specified in the Second Schedule hereto: Provided that an entry permit shall not be issued or renewed for a period exceeding five years from the date of issue.
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    7. (1) An entry permit issued in respect of a person not present in Swaziland at the time of issue shall cease to be valid if such person fails to enter Swaziland within six months from the date of issue thereof: Provided that an immigration officer may extend the validity of such entry permit for a period not exceeding six months.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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