There are various ways you can access your money in South Africa. This includes using normal allowances, such as your annual Discretionary Allowance, or formally emigrating from South Africa. We can help with all of these.

Immigration is the process of relocating to another country. Formal emigration is the financial exit for exchange control purposes.

Physical relocation does not automatically result in financial exit – if you haven’t formally emigrated you are viewed as a South African temporally abroad, and subject to same tax and exchange control regulations as others living in South Africa

No – you do not have to give up your South African citizenship. Emigrating from South Africa simply formalises your financial exit from South Africa for exchange control purposes. Your financial status will change from ‘resident’ to ‘non-resident’ on completion, but you remain South African.

You will have a capital allowance of R10 million per adult or R20 million per family and a travel allowance of up to R1 million per adult and R200,000 per child under the age of 18.

Furthermore, you will have an export allowance entitling you to export household and personal effects, including cars up to a total insured value of R2 million.

It is possible to request the transfer of your remaining liquid assets that exceed the foreign capital allowance limits. We also manage the application for assets exceeding the allowances.

All transfers will flow offshore from this account once your emigration is complete.

The account is not frozen or locked – it is simply an account with the single purpose to transfer money from South Africa.

To regulate the foreign exchange market, only a South African bank can certify the emigration application, and life assurers may only transfer retirement annuity proceeds into an emigrant’s capital account, from where it can be transferred to your new country.

Usually, only the bank that handled your emigration can re-open a new account for you. This does complicate the process but does not make it impossible – please contact us to see if we can help.

Unfortunately, we would need to register her with SARS for tax clearances purposes.

RandTangle charges a service fee based on the specific circumstances and need surrounding the emigration of each client, and the services required, We do not have a commission based service fee that changes based on policy size. Contact us for a no obligation quotation.

It is generally not possible to transfer policies and pensions that are already paying regular income.