South Africa is intent on ensuring that its BRICS partners are accommodated under the new visa rules. Home Affairs has created a new 10-year multi-entry visa allowing a stay of 30 days per visit, available to business visitors who are BRICS citizens (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Seven additional visa centres have been opened in India and 2 in China to ease the burden of traveling long distances to visa centres in order to make visa applications.