The Intergate Group of Companies

Intergate Immigration Service

Using a registered immigration practitioner to help realise your immigration requirements will most definitely increase your chances of a successful conclusion. But what distinguishes the Intergate Immigration Group of Companies apart from its competitors is its belief in total immigration solutions.

With our business roots traced back to 2002, we have enjoyed unprecedented success and have established ourselves as the market leader for hassle free immigration and relocation solutions.

Our Managing Director, Katrin Maja Maehl, originally from Germany herself but now a permanent resident of South Africa, heads up the team and supplies an unbridled passion with constant innovation to the services we offer. Educated in Germany, Berlin she completed her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and after periods of work with SIEMENS and in the immigration industry was one of the founding partners of Intergate Immigration.

The Head of Corporate Services is Kai-Olaf Scheiffele, a German attorney by profession. After working for a Munich law firm and the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in Mumbai, he came to South Africa to graduate as a Master of Commercial Law (LL.M.) at the University of Cape Town. Seeing the growth of the market, he relocated to Johannesburg to work in corporate immigration, before joining Intergate in 2005.

As a registered and South African based company, Intergate Immigration Service has two offices in the city of Cape Town, and a satellite office in Johannesburg.

Apart from assisting individual migrants, Intergate Immigration is retained as advisor to a number of large corporate clients and is often asked for comment by the media on issues of governmental immigration policy when changes take place.

As one of South Africa’s largest independent immigration consultants our qualified team, of in excess of 25 individuals, comprises of professionals from the countries of England, Germany, Belgium and South Africa. We are able to communicate with our clients in 6 different languages; including English, German, Dutch, French, Xhosa and Afrikaans.

The Intergate Immigration team understands and is particularly empathetic to the rigors, uncertainty, frustrations and difficulties associated with migration. Most of our senior management has been through the migration process themselves and are subsequently able to draw on their own personal experiences.

The Intergate team is able to offer an unchallenged wealth of knowledge and experience of international and local issues that face the prospective immigrant individual or business to simplify the migration process for all our clients.

Our respective experts are qualified to degree and masters level in both European and South African Universities and the expertise of our immigration consultants enables our clients to complete all stages of the immigration procedure, including settlement issues such as finding employment, housing, financial planning and insurance issues, quickly and with minimal expenses.

Our values represent who we are and what we stand for. We pride ourselves on getting the right information, making the right judgments,
and taking the right actions to deliver the highest-quality immigration solutions for our clients. Intergate Immigration Service means successfully completed immigration cases, hundreds of families whose dreams have come true in South Africa and employees and business’ who have successfully settled and thrived in our economy. The basis for this is not just our years of experience in the immigration field, professionalism of our immigration consultants but more our individual approach to each client, our compassion and attention to each person's destiny.

Clients already benefit from an appointed client manager to cater for their specific requirements and will soon enjoy the industry leading knowledge centre that Intergate are soon launching.

With Intergate Immigration, the client has access to multilingual staff for ease of communication and translation, sound migration information and advice, solid business and general resettlement advice; supported by a wealth of experience, sound research and expert opinion.

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Incompass CC

An integral part of the Intergate Group, Incompass is a registered financial services and accountancy provider. Since its’ inception in 2002, clients have benefited from a personal level of service not normally associated within its’ industry sector. Apart from providing services to a number of local individuals and business’s, it is widely regarded as the leading consultancy for the prospective immigrant.

Incompass CC is headed up by the groups Financial Director, Nico Le Roux. Nico commenced his career as a trainee accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and was later involved in the rendering of their wealth management services. Nico obtained his Honors B Compt degree from the University of South Africa and is a registered Certified Financial Planner (FPI) and a Certified Financial Accountant (CFP).

Realizing the very different needs of individuals arriving in South Africa from all over the world, it offers a wide range of services that include taxation consulting, wealth management, currency transfers, exchange control, banking solutions, insurances (life & medical), property finance and business structures. Incompass is unique with this level of in-house expertise and capability.
All advice and recommendations are built on an individually tailored basis. Research and correct in-depth analysis reassure the client of tailored, structured, personalized and quality advice.

Businesses have benefited from an accountancy and taxation service that offers a partnership relationship with industry leading transparency of charging. For the foreign business Incompass offers an inimitable pairing of marrying the requirements of home affairs with the practicalities of accountancy issues.

Incompass continues to be innovative in its wealth management services and continues to build on its ethos of ‘service for profitability’ -
Its constant target is one of delivery on an ongoing basis. Drawing on its international experience and influence Incompass will launch (2007) the unique and innovative personal wealth management service for the migrant.

Continuing to build on their unique services, whilst never forgetting its ultimate aims of providing tailored solutions appropriate to clients,
not just now, but on an ongoing basis Incompass looks forward to assisting all clients.

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SA HomeBuyers

Formed in 2005, SA HomeBuyers has quickly expanded to meet demand and is now able to cover most areas of South Africa. Whether looking for property in majestic Cape Town, the inspiring Winelands, near the sandy beaches of Durban or in the tranquility of the bushveld,
its specialized property consultants are able to add a whole new dimension to the property buying experience.

The high-quality team at SA HomeBuyers is headed up by Andrew Brotchie. Pleased to be based back in South Africa after spending extended periods living in Mexico and the UK, Andrew's main focus is to ensure that the priority of the business and focus of the consultants is on the needs of the buyer at all times. Andrew attended the University of Exeter and has a BA (Hons) and an MBA in International Management. He started his career in financial services and, before returning to South Africa in 2005, spent many years working on business expansion in the Far East for a global financial services company.

Not to be compared with traditional estate agents that sell property, SA HomeBuyers realigns the imbalance of an industry focused on the seller by providing the missing link of professional representation for the purchaser.

A totally incomparable service within South Africa, SA HomeBuyers has assisted and advised clients on a range of property deals that has seen it source, negotiate and represent buyers of simple holiday apartments through to game lodges, guesthouses and investment properties.

Its ethos is simply one of ‘focusing on the buyers needs’.

For the foreign purchaser, the SA HomeBuyers service has quickly been established as a must have. It has also developed a particularly high profile with South Africans abroad either looking to invest into property in their home country or making plans to return home.

Property has always been one of our major purchases in life. With the increase in prices, the complexity of issues facing buyers and the use of property as investment and retirement income, the level of professionalism with the industry has to rise. SA HomeBuyers is leading this evolution and provides its clients with the knowledge of how property should be bought - not in the future, but now.