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Parents no longer have to travel with children`s birth certificates

Source: Cap Talk, 12/07/2018

As part of its modernisation programme, Department of Home Affairs has
scheduled upgrades to its offices across the country to begin on 13 July.
The department`s Director-General, Mkuseli Apleni says the upgrade
will make a huge difference to the controversial issue of unabridged
certificates that everyone has been complaining about.
He says with the upgrades, the last page of the child`s passport will
have the details of the parents, meaning that parents will no longer
be required to travel with an unabridged birth certificate.
When you apply for the passport of the child, the system will
automatically go into the NPR and say these are the parents of the
child and print them at the back of the passport. They will no longer
need to carry a birth certificate.
ï¿½` Mkuseli Apleni, DG of Home Affairs
Apleni says travellers into South Africa will unfortunately have to
carry their children`s birth certificates if the parents details are
not printed on the child`s passport.
He says they have made suggestions to the international body which
manages the issues of travelling globally that children`s passports
should have details of the parents.
If this can be approved, it means it will now be applicable to the
whole world.
ï¿½` Mkuseli Apleni, DG of Home Affairs

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