No Retention of Citizenship (RSA) question

[CaptianWibbles]

Hi All,
I have recently aquired BC without applying for retention of Citizenship from the RSA home office. My Current RSA passport has expired and as such I am no longer able to renew it.

Will I have any issues entering the RSA on my British Passport, or am I required to prove my loss of Citizenship?

Cheers
Wibbles

[Siggi]

Captian,
No you will have no issuses entering SA on your new British passport, but if they are awake they will tell you have been striped of your SA nationality, so what!

But I do know of people who have entered SA on British passports and renewed SA passports in SA and then courier the passport back to the UK. Thats if you still want the Green Mamba.

[CaptianWibbles]

Captian,
No you will have no issuses entering SA on your new British passport, but if they are awake they will tell you have been striped of your SA nationality, so what!

But I do know of people who have entered SA on British passports and renewed SA passports in SA and then courier the passport back to the UK. Thats if you still want the Green Mamba.

Hey Siggi,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I figured as much but it never hurts to be sure. As for the Green Mamba, I don't have a use for it. That and the questionable 4 month wait to renew from the UK makes it a hassle at best.

Thanks again for your help.

[tekaweni]

They probably wont even look carefully enough at your passport to notice the South African place of birth. My son has returned to SA twice using his UK passport without a word from customs.

[JAJ]

Captian,
No you will have no issuses entering SA on your new British passport, but if they are awake they will tell you have been striped of your SA nationality, so what!

But I do know of people who have entered SA on British passports and renewed SA passports in SA and then courier the passport back to the UK. Thats if you still want the Green Mamba.

It would be an invalid passport if they did that, as they would no longer be South African citizens.

(unless they had legally re-acquired South African citizenship).

[Siggi]

JAJ
You are right but it's a South African thing been illegal!

[pumkin]

Hi All,
I have recently aquired BC without applying for retention of Citizenship from the RSA home office. My Current RSA passport has expired and as such I am no longer able to renew it.

Will I have any issues entering the RSA on my British Passport, or am I required to prove my loss of Citizenship?

Cheers
Wibbles

Don't take a chance with travelling on a foreign passport. They are looking out for this type of thing and you can be jailed or experience many hours of delays, especially if over a weekend. My husband never applied for retention and we knew he had lost his SA citizenship. All we did was went to SA House, they cancelled his passport and gave him a letter to put into his British Passport, so that if they ask questions, he can produce the letter which states that he is no longer a citizen.