Smart ID card applications are opening to citizens who have previously been blocked from getting the new document.
Home Affairs has started allowing naturalised citizens to apply for smart ID cards. However, according to photographs of a notice from a MyBroadband reader, they must first seek an invitation to apply from the department’s director-general.
In addition, naturalised citizens and permanent residents could not use the Home Affairs online booking system, eHomeAffairs, to apply for passports. That came two months after director-general Livhuwani Tommy Makhode said that system modifications were underway to facilitate support for naturalised citizens’ applications.Home Affairs announced in a parliamentary response in March 2024 that it had started a pilot programme of issuing smart ID cards to naturalised citizens in December 2023.
“Once the system has been adjusted to verify compliant applications, all naturalised citizens will be able to visit any Home Affairs office equipped with live-capture facilities to apply for their smart ID cards,” said Schreiber. One massive problem with South Africa’s old ID document that could’ve influenced the decision to restrict applications is itsAccording to Smile ID’s Digital Identity Fraud 2024, its Know-Your-Customer checks had flagged fraud in 34% of the cases where South African ID books were used to gain access to various services.
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