Here is the updated list of services currently available at Home Affairs under South Africa’s lockdown
Businesstech - 08 March 2022
Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has updated which services will be available at Home Affairs offices during the country’s adjusted level 1 lockdown.
In a government gazette published at the end of February, Motsoaledi said that this will include:
- Births registration;
- Late registration birth;
- Re-issuance of birth and marriage certificates;
- Applications for unabridged birth, marriage and death certificates, including vault copies;
- Deaths registration;
- Applications for temporary identity certificates;
- Applications for and collection of identity cards or documents;
- Applications for and collection of passports;
- Solemnisation and registration of marriages;
- Applications for citizenship;
- Applications for retention and renunciation of citizenship;
- Applications for rectification and amendment of personal particulars;
- Applications for travel documents for those who are permitted to travel (submission of proof required);
- All back-office operational services;
- Visa services in terms of the Immigration Act;
- Online renewal of refugee status and asylum seeker permits/visas.
Motsoaledi has extended the validity period of asylum seeker and refugee permits that expired during the lockdown period until 30 April 2022.