About Us

What we do

The Department of Home Affairs offers a multitude of services to the citizens of South Africa, as well as foreigners who wish to visit, work or stay in South Africa. The Department’s core functions are:

Civic Services

Immigration
  • Maintaining the National Population Register (NPR)
  • Managing the birth, marriage and death records
  • Determining and granting citizenship
  • Issuing travel documents and passports
  • Issuing identity documents (ID)
  • Administering admissions into the country
  • Determining the residency status of foreigners and issuing permits thereof
  • Custodianship of refugee affairs
  • Inspectorate
  • Policy directives

 

Mandate

The mandate of the Department:

  • Mandate 1: Management of citizenship and civil registration
  • Mandate 2: Management of international migration
  • Mandate 3: Management of refugee

 

Vision

A South Africa where identity, status and citizenship are key enablers of citizen empowerment and inclusivity, economic development and national security

 

Mission

The DHA carries out its mission in line with its commitment to citizen empowerment and inclusivity, economic development and national security, by:

  • Being an efficient and secure custodian of citizenship and civil registration
  • Securely and strategically managing international migration
  • Efficiently managing asylum seekers and refugees
  • Efficiently determining and safeguarding the official identity and status of persons

 

Value Statement

The Department of Home Affairs is committed to being:

  • People-centred and caring
  • Patriotic
  • Professional and showing leadership
  • Effective, efficient and innovative
  • Ethical and having integrity
  • Security conscious
  • Development oriented

 

Being efficient and innovative

Being people-centred and  caring

Instilling and demonstrating integrity

Accountability and transparency

Fighting corruption