Burgers Attorneys

Mr. T.F. Burgers (Tom Burgers) from the law practice of Burgers Attorneys based in the greater Johannesburg area of Gauteng, Republic of South Africa, holding offices in Fairland, Johannesburg, Gauteng, is a qualified and admitted attorney and an officer of the Honourable High Court of South Africa and offers a comprehensive range of professional legal services and more specifically specialising in immigration law-related matters with 26 years’ extensive experience as a qualified attorney in this field of law, having dealt exhaustively with the offices of the National Department of Home Affairs, South Africa during this extended time period, on a daily basis, in total, prior to being admitted as a qualified attorney for a time period spanning over 32 years’ experience.

Mr. Burgers is a specialist and qualified attorney in the field of South African administrative law which is the branch of public law which regulates the legal relations of public authorities, whether with private individuals and organisations or with other public authorities in South Africa.

Such also regulates the activities of bodies that exercise public powers or perform public functions, irrespective of whether those bodies are public authorities in a strict sense. According to the Constitutional Court, administrative law is “an incident of the separation of powers under which the courts regulate and control the exercise of public power by the other branches of government.

To be more specific the field of administrative law that Mr. Burgers specialises and practices in is that of all immigration law related matters, in terms of the South African Immigration Act 13 of 2002 (as amended)   (the Act) and Citizenship law related matter in terms of the South African Citizenship Act 88 of 1995 (the amended act 17 of 2010) and also refugee law-related matters in terms of the South African Refugees Act 130 of 1998 (as amended).

Burgers Attorneys provides personalised, specialist and expert professional legal guidance, opinion, and / or representations to foreign nationals seeking to establish themselves lawfully in the RSA, also catering for exclusive international clientele seeking financial independence permits, retired persons permits and business permits and wanting to call Africa and more specifically South Africa their permanent home, by wanting to retire here on a more permanent basis or wanting to invest in the RSA and / or possibly streamline their business concerns and activities and investments legally and lawfully in the RSA.

Burgers Attorneys can, however, provide professional legal representation and / or referral in various other fields of the law inclusive of financial and commercial aspects.

 Burgers Attorneys is also vastly experienced in representing international clientele with judicial review motion applications in immigration law-related matters against the Minister and the Director-General of the National Department of Home Affairs, South Africa, in our highly esteemed, honorable High Courts.