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Student's Pass

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What education or training is this pathway designed for?

It is for students attending an educational or training establishment; a person in charge of such an establishment commits an offence by letting a student who needs a student's pass attend before holding it.

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Limits of the record
  • No level, course type or full-time requirement is specified in the captured sources.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    (3) Any person, who being in charge of an educational or training establishment, allows a student who is required under this regulation to obtain a student’s pass to attend such establishment before that student is in possession of a student’s pass, shall be guilty of an offence.

What type of institution/course must accept or enrol the applicant?

The Chief Immigration Officer may only issue the pass if satisfied that the applicant has been accepted as a student by the educational or training establishment concerned.

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Limits of the record
  • No list of recognised institutions or accreditation requirement is stated.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    (2) The Chief Immigration Officer may only issue a student’s pass under this regulation if he is satisfied that the person seeking to enter or remain in Swaziland has been accepted as a student by the educational or training establishment referred to in subregulation (1).

What are the most important financial or study-related conditions: tuition, funds, insurance, full-time study, attendance or equivalent?

The application must be accompanied by the prescribed fee. The official source does not state tuition, funds, insurance, full-time study or attendance conditions.

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Limits of the record
  • Correcção de 2026-09-16 (fecho SZ): a citação anterior era o mesmo fragmento genérico partilhado pelas 5 respostas desta rota e não demonstrava 'acceptance' nem 'prescribed fee'. Reatribuída à Regulation 17(1), Immigration Regulations 1987 (mesma extracção já capturada). A ausência de um limiar de fundos/seguro mantém-se confirmada: a extracção completa não contém 'funds' nem 'insurance'.
  • Regulation 17(1), Immigration Regulations
    A person seeking to enter or remain in Swaziland for the purposes of receiving education or training at an educational or training establishment within Swaziland by which he has been accepted as a student, or the parent or guardian on his behalf, may make an application accompanied by the prescribed fee

Can the student work? Under what major restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm whether the student may work, the main restrictions and the family position.

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Limits of the record
  • Correcção de 2026-09-16 (fecho SZ): estado 'proven' contradizia o próprio texto ('do not state student work rights or a family position'). A extracção completa da Immigration Regulations 1987 (mesma fonte já capturada) não contém 'insurance', 'funds', 'family' nem 'work permit'/'gainful' para o Student's Pass -- confirma-se ausência de facto. Estado corrigido para not_found; citação genérica partilhada removida.

How long does the status last, how is it renewed, and what officially documented post-study work or residence possibilities exist?

Subject to the Chief Immigration Officer's terms, the pass allows entry within the specified period and stay for the period specified from entry. It is deemed expired if the holder does not enter the establishment as a student within thirty days of issue or entry (whichever is later), or thirty days after the holder leaves or ceases to be a student there. The official source does not state renewal of the pass or any post-study work or residence possibility.

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Limits of the record
  • Renewal of the student's pass is not described.
  • No post-study work or residence possibility is stated.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    Subject to such terms and conditions as the Chief Immigration Officer may specify in the student’s pass, a student’s pass shall entitle the holder to enter Swaziland within the period specified and to remain in Swaziland for such period from the date of his entry as may be specified.
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    (a) within a period of thirty days from the date of issue of such pass or from the date of the holder’s entry thereunder into Swaziland, which ever is the later, fails to enter as a student the educational or training establishment in respect of which the student pass was issued, the student’s pass shall be deemed to have expired and to be of no validity or effect;
  • https://www.gov.sz/images/home-affairs/immigration%20regulations.pdf
    (b) having entered such educational or training establishment as a student, at any time leaves or ceases to be a student in that establishment, with effect from the expiration of thirty days following the date on which the holder leaves or ceases to be a student in such establishment, the student’s pass shall be deemed to have expired and to be of no validity or effect.

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

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