How much are South African passports in 2024?
If you want to apply for a South African passport and wondering how much it costs to get one currently, here’s what you need to know…
SOUTH AFRICAN PASSPORT PRICE HIKE
Passport prices are certainly not what they used to be, with the last hike seeing a 50% price change in 2022.
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As reported by Business Tech, the Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi, accounted for the steep jump in prices as a result of the last change being a whole decade ago – also noting that South African passports were three times cheaper than many other countries.
HOW MUCH ARE THEY?
Accordingly, the fee adjustments for South African passports and other official travel documents came into effect on 1 November 2022. Here’s how much South African citizens have to fork out:
- Adult tourist passports are R600 for 32 pages
- Maxi tourist passports costs R1 200 for 48 pages
- Child passports are R600
- Official passports are R600
- Diplomatic passports R600
- Documents for travel purposes are R600
- Crew member certificates are R600.
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Meanwhile, application fees for SA passports or travel document made outside the country at Missions, Embassies or Consulates, are as follows:
- For adult tourist passports it will cost R1 200 for 32 pages
- For adult maxi tourist passports it will cost R2 400 for 48 pages
- For child passports it will cost R1 200
- Emergency travel certificates will cost R140.
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