Guyana Embassy or consulate in South Africa?; Visa requirements for Guyanese citizens

Hello there Folks,
I am a South African citizen. My fiance arrives in South Africa on 26 May from Guyana and I was told that she does not need visa to be in South Africa for the first 30 days. Is this true? If she just arrives in the country with passport, no visa, will they give her a hard time at customs and immigration on arrival? I am worried because she is very young, inexperienced with travelling as she has never travelled outside Guyana in her life, and she is an extremely simple and timid girl, and so she may easily be pushed around by those often nasty, merciless, barking immigration officials. We plan to be married immediately on her arrival, after which we apply for spousal visa so that she can continue to live with me as my wife here in Johannesburg. but then I need to send her passport, along with our International marriage certificate back to Guyana, in order that she has her surname change in her passport, and recognition of our marriage in Guyana, and that her new passport be sent back to us with as little risk as possible of it being lost! For this we would need to know if there is some Guyana consulate in South Africa that we can liaise with regarding these documents. Or perhaps someone can point us in the right direction on how to manage this one. Even if I have to post her Guyanese passport all the way back to Guyana (which is risky in itself), I have no idea where it should go to in Guyana!
Is there even a Guyana embassy here? Or if not, is there some other country consulate, possibly one of those West indies countries consulates here, which represents and manages Guyana also?

Thanks in advance for any advice anyone might have to offer.

Kind regards,

Yogan Khandoo

Yogan Khandoo 17 Mar 2008, 02:47 - Report