{"id":27048,"date":"2026-02-27T05:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/channelafrica\/news\/us-to-process-4-500-refugee-applications-monthly-from-white-sa-applicants\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:00","slug":"us-to-process-4-500-refugee-applications-monthly-from-white-sa-applicants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-to-process-4-500-refugee-applications-monthly-from-white-sa-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0US to Process 4 500 refugee applications monthly from White SA applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United Sates (US) aims to process some 4 500 refugee applications from white South Africans (SA) per month. That&#8217;s according to an exclusive report from the <i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0News Agency.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The new numbers, contained in an unreported State Department document appear to invalidate an earlier cap that the White House had announced of 7 500 refugees allowed in to the US per annum.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The report says the US embassy in Pretoria is putting measures in place to support the effort.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The report says that the US Embassy in Pretoria was planning to create a modular village for refugee processing on its grounds and that the new target of 4 500 signalled a push to ramp up efforts to admit more people from SA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Only around 2 000 white South Africans have been admitted since the process began last May although the pace is said to have picked up this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The report quotes from the State Department document that the inability to safely process about 4 500 applicants per month, an objective communicated by the White House, would result in failure to meet a Presidential priority. South Africa has long maintained that any suggestion that Afrikaners faced persecution in the country was unsubstantiated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27049,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-27048","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The report says the US embassy in Pretoria is putting measures in place to support the effort.\u00a0","published_date":null,"news_description":"The report says the US embassy in Pretoria is putting measures in place to support the effort.\u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27322,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27048\/revisions\/27322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}