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Entry Permit Class G - Manufacturing

EswatiniStarting a business

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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Is this for a founder, startup entrepreneur, self-employed person, freelancer, company owner or another business profile?

Class G is for a person engaging alone or in partnership in a specific manufacturing activity in Eswatini.

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What must actually exist or be demonstrated: business plan, company, innovation, clients, contracts, economic activity, job creation or other substance?

The applicant must have obtained, or be assured of obtaining, any licence, registration or other authority or permission needed for the manufacture; the application must give details of that licence/registration with proof it has been or will be obtained, and details of the manufacture including the estimated number of persons to be employed.

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What investment, capital, income, revenue, funding or viability evidence is central to this pathway?

The applicant must have, in their own right and at their full and free disposition, sufficient capital and other resources for the purpose, and the engagement in the manufacture must be of benefit to Eswatini. 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 capital amount is stated for Class G in the captured sources.

What business/self-employed activity may the holder conduct? Are there important restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

The permit is tied to the manufacture for which it was issued: if, without written approval of an immigration officer, the holder ceases it or engages in any other employment, occupation, trade, business or profession, the permit ceases to be valid. Where the applicant holds an entry permit, the particulars of his wife and children (as dependants) may be endorsed on it at an immigration officer's discretion.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources do not state whether accompanying family members may work.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20act%2C%201982.pdf
    (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
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20act%2C%201982.pdf
    (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
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    (3) All dependant’s passes shall be in Form 7 in the First Schedule hereto and where the applicant is the holder of an entry permit, the particulars of his wife and children (being dependants) may, at the discretion of an immigration officer, be endorsed on his entry permit.

What approval/application sequence applies, how long is the status granted, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction is officially stated?

The period of validity of an entry permit is at the discretion of the Chief Immigration Officer; it may be renewed for further periods on payment of the renewal fee, but may not be issued or renewed for a period exceeding five years from the date of issue. As a longer-term direction, the Act's Class J entry permit covers a person resident in Eswatini for a continuous period of ten years who has khonta'd under Swazi law and custom and has applied for, and not been refused, full Swazi citizenship.

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Limits of the record
  • The length actually granted is discretionary; the source gives no typical period.
  • The Act does not state that time held on this permit class counts towards the Class J ten-year residence, nor that Class J is an automatic progression.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    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.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20act%2C%201982.pdf
    (b) has been a resident of Swaziland for a continuous period of ten years; and — (i) has Khontaed according to Swazi Laws and Custom; and (ii) proves, to the satisfaction of the Chief Immigration Officer that he has applied for and has not been refused full Swazi Citizen status.

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

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