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Here is the updated list of services currently available at Home Affairs under South Africa’s lockdown

Source: Businesstech, 07/03/2022


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.

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