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Issued to:
South African citizens and the categories listed under Document for Travel Purposes where circumstances necessitate urgent travel and there is not enough time to wait for a proper passport or travel document to be issued.
All applications must be on a duly completed BI-73 application form and must be lodged personally at a Home Affairs domestic office or a South African Embassy or Mission, if abroad. The applicant must satisfy the passport officer of his or her identity, his or her photographs will be checked to ensure that they are a true image of the applicant, and his or her fingerprints (applicants 16 years or older) will be taken for checking against the Population Register.
The instruction page to the BI-73 contains further information on the application processes and prescribed fees.
Additional costs:
| Description | Cost | | Fax transmission of urgent passport applications | R 11.00 | | Posting of the original set of fingerprints by priority mail to the Directorate: Identification for urgent fingerprint classification for purposes of issuing a passport to the applicant | R 32.00 | | Posting of issued passports and travel documents to members of the public by registered mail | R 21.00 | | Posting of a passport by priority mail to an applicant in terms of a special arrangement between the applicant and the office concerned | R 32.00 |
Photographs
Photographs must comply to the following specifications:
The photographs must be: - two identical colour photos for passports
- two identical colour or black and white photos for IDs
- not more than one (1) month old
- 35mm in width and 45mm in height
- a close-up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70 – 80% of the photograph
- of high quality with no ink marks or creases and not damaged
- show you looking directly at the camera
- have appropriate brightness and contrast
- be printed on high-quality photo paper
- show your natural colour
- show your eyes open and clearly visible - no hair across your face
- show you facing square onto the camera, not looking over one shoulder (portrait style) or tilted
- show both edges of your face clearly
- be taken with a light grey or plain cream-coloured background
- be taken with uniform lighting and not show shadows or flash reflections on your face and no red-eye
- show you alone (no chair backs, toys or other people visible)
The Director-General may reject the copies of the photographs if they do not, in his or her judgment, comply with the requirements mentioned above, or if he or she deem them unsuitable in other respects, in which case the person concerned shall provide two new copies at his or her own cost.
Identity document and passport photographs could be taken at regional or district offices equipped for this service, at a cost of R13-00 for a frame of four black and white photographs.
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