Travelling soon? Get your passport sorted at these SA banks

GET YOUR PASSPORT RENEWED

If you’re booking an overseas trip soon and need to renew your passport, there are still several banks in South Africa that will offer the renewal of passports and IDs until March 2024, and possibly even beyond that date.

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Here are the participating bank branches you can visit if you want to skip the queues at the Department of Home Affairs:

NEDBANK

• Nedbank Arcadia
• Nedbank Contantia Kloof
• Nedbank Nelspruit
• Nedbank Rivonia
• Nedbank St George’s Mall

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ABSA

• Absa Centurion
• Absa Key West Krugersdorp
• Absa Sandton City
• Absa Port Elizabeth

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STANDARD BANK

• Standard Bank Kathu Mall
• Standard Bank Centurion
• Standard Bank Killarney Mall
• Standard Bank Kingsmead
• Standard Bank Jubilee Mall
• Standard Bank Canal Walk
• Standard Bank Mitchell’s Plain
• Standard Bank Simmonds Street
• Standard Bank Newton Park

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FNB

• FNB Burgersfort
• FNB Centurion Lifestyle Centre
• FNB Cornubia
• FNB Glen Shopping Centre
• FNB Greenpoint
• FNB Lynwood
• FNB Merchant Place

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HOW IT WORKS

According to reports, it’s quite simple to renew your passport or ID document at a bank branch in South Africa, and takes 15 days from application to collection.

Users are asked to create an application, where they are required to fill in the following information:

• Country
• Residential and postal address
• Location to have biometrics captured
• Where to collect documents

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