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Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by sunshine010101 » Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:58 pm

Hi everyone

Have you renewed your South African passport recently at SA embassy in London?

What was your timeline?

Many thanks

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Re: Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by CR001 » Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:10 pm

There are currently long delays for renewals.
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Re: Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by sunshine010101 » Sat May 08, 2021 9:56 am

Hi

I just want to give you feedback and yes, for sure long delays ahead as I requested the appointment for the passport renewal and after 2 weeks I got response that my appointments is booked in 3 months.
I am considering now to apply by post because the police stations restarted the fingerprints service for the foreign passports. I hope this would be the right thing to do...

If anyone has any feedback about processing times of South African passport renewal, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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Re: Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by sparkie15 » Sun May 30, 2021 10:14 pm

I did a postal application

20/10/20 Forms received by embassy
22/04/21 Email to say passport is ready to post or collect.
23/04/21 Posted old passport to embassy
30/04/21 New passport received

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Re: Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by Cape123 » Tue Jun 01, 2021 11:48 pm

Hi,

How long did it take for SA House to send you back the blank forms after you requested them? We requested the forms with a postage paid self addressed envelope 10 weeks ago and still haven't heard anything back. Also, does anyone have a number or email address to contact someone at the SA Embassy? The phone number they provide just hangs up after a while and no replies to the email address.

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Re: Renewing South African Passport in UK - Timelines

Post by sparkie15 » Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:49 am

I haven't tried to contact them but my passport forms arrived within a week of me posting the request. A friend has just done the same and they arrived last week, 10 days after posting a request.

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