No more temporary passports
The Department of Home Affairs will no longer issue temporary
passports from September 1.
A circular from the DHA states that SA citizens have been refused
entry into a number of countries when travelling on temporary passports.
"This has resulted in accusations and claims against the department in
cases where citizens are refused entry into particular country despite the
department having issued the temporary passport.
"Temporary passports have been abused for corruption purposes
and this threat remains, which puts South Africa at risk of its travel
documents being unreliable and not trustworthy. Elimination of temporary
passports aims to remove this risk."
The DHA added that temporary passports were initially issued as an
interim travel document due to longer turn-around times taken to issue a
permanent tourist passport. "This turn-around time has improved
drastically rendering issuance of temporary passports redundant."
Only an Emergency Travel Certificate (ETC) will be issued to an
applicant under circumstances of emergency travel purposes.
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