Check Your Passport Status Online You can check the status of your passport application on the State Department’s website — status updates are typically available 14 days after you apply or renew your passport.

To find out the status of your official passport application, contact Official Travel with your name and date of birth. How do I find out about the status of my visa application? To find out the status of your visa application, contact Official Travel with your name and date of birth.

Alternatively please email [email protected]

Passports cannot be renewed. Once the validity period of a passport expires you will have to submit a new application for a passport. Passports must be valid for at least 30 days after the intended date of departure. Passports should also have at least two blank pages for entry stamps.

DHA Head Quarters

1. DHA Head Quarters. Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Phone: 012 406 2500.
2. Contact Centre. Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Phone: 0800 601 190.

It will take about 7-21 working days to process the application and issue the passport. The tourist passport is valid for 10 years. Note: Passports must be valid for at least 30 days after the intended date of departure. Passports should also have at least 2 blank pages for entry stamps.

To make a query via SMS, citizens can simply send an SMS containing the letters ID, followed by a space, followed by their ID number, to 32551.

Client ID. The Client ID is an 11 digit number located near the top of the visa grant notice.

Home Affairs [ Ministry of ]

1. Private Bag X114, PRETORIA, 0001. Private Bag X9102, CAPE TOWN, 8000.
2. 909 Arcadia Street, PRETORIA. 120 Plein Street, Floor 8, Room 840, CAPE TOWN.
3. 012 432 6648. 021 469 6500.
4. 012 432 6675. 021 461 4191.

Applications made within South African borders can be submitted to any office of the Department of Home Affairs; applications made outside of the country can be submitted to your nearest South Africa embassy or mission. It is important to know that when you apply for a passport, whether in South Africa or overseas, you must apply in person because:

The bank will verify your identity by simply placing your finger on a biometric reader which will read your fingerprint against the Home Affairs database. This follows the launch of a ground-breaking Online Fingerprint Verification System by the Department of Home Affairs and the South African Banking Risk Identification Centre (SABRIC).

To use the official passport only for duly authorised trips Hand in the passport to the Department of Home Affairs if you leave government service or you will no longer require an official passport To return your passport to a designated person in your department or organisation for safe-keeping on return from your official trip

the activation of the Alive Status Verification Service as part of its Track and Trace system for Identity Document (ID) status verification. The purpose of the service is to assist South Africans to check their status to ensure that they have not been fraudulently declared dead on the population register.