No more visits to Home Affairs
South African citizens needing passports and smart ID cards could soon be able to apply for these documents from the comfort of their homes, via their South African banking apps.
As reported by MyBroadband, who recently asked the Department of Home Affairs whether these services would be made available to digital banks anytime soon.
According to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, however, making the services available at bank branches is a still a forerunner to integrating them into banking apps.
“Our goal is to enable our services to be available virtually, including through banking apps, so that clients can access those services from the comfort of their own homes,” Schreiber said, as per MyBroadband.
“This is all part of the same process, as integrating Home Affairs services onto banking platforms in branches is the logical precursor to delivering those same services online and on apps.” the Minister added.
If all goes according to plan, this would mean that digital bank users will have access to a variety of Home Affairs services via their banking apps, as well as no longer needing to stand in long queues at Home Affairs offices or at banks.
While we wait…
While this may not happen as soon as we’d like, there are now even more bank branches which offer passport and smart ID card applications in South Africa. Take a look…
Standard Bank (9 branches)
- Canal Walk, Century City
- Centurion Lifestyle Centre
- Jubilee Mall, Hammanskraal
- Kathu Mall, Postmasburg
- Killarney Mall, Johannesburg
- Kingsmead, Durban
- Mitchell’s Plain Promenade
- Newton Park, Port Elizabeth
- Simmonds Street, Johannesburg
FNB (7 branches)
- Burgersfort, Twin City Complex
- Centurion Lifestyle Centre
- Cornubia, Durban
- Glen Shopping Centre
- Lynnwood
- Merchant Place
- The Grove Mall
Absa (6 branches)
- Centurion Lifestyle Centre
- Key West, Krugersdorp
- Sandton City
- Stellenbosch
- Towers, Cape Town
- Stellenbosch Square
Nedbank (6 branches)
- Arcadia
- Constantia Kloof
- Rivonia
- St George’s Mall, Cape Town
- Newton Park, Port Elizabeth
- Kathu
Investec (1 branch)
- Sandown
Discovery Bank (1 branch)
- Headquarters, Sandton
Have you applied for a passport or smart ID card at a bank branch in SA?
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