Get your passport renewed at these banks
If you’re booking an overseas trip soon and need to renew your passport, apply for a passport for the first time, or get a smart ID card, there are now even more banks in South Africa that will offer the renewal of passports and IDs.
There are currently 30 bank branches in South Africa which offer these services, and this number is set to more than double in the near future, with a further 34 bank branches being added to the list.
Here are the participating bank branches you can visit if you want to skip the queues at the Department of Home Affairs:
NEDBANK
- Nedbank Arcadia
- Nedbank Contantia Kloof
- Nedbank Nelspruit
- Nedbank Rivonia
- Nedbank St George’s Mall
- Nedbank Durban North
ABSA
- Absa Centurion
- Absa Key West Krugersdorp
- Absa Sandton City
- Absa Port Elizabeth
- Absa Stellenbosch
- Absa Towers
STANDARD BANK
- Standard Bank Kathu Mall
- Standard Bank Centurion
- Standard Bank Killarney Mall
- Standard Bank Kingsmead
- Standard Bank Jubilee Mall
- Standard Bank Canal Walk
- Standard Bank Mitchell’s Plain
- Standard Bank Simmonds Street
- Standard Bank Newton Park
FNB
- FNB Burgersfort
- FNB Centurion Lifestyle Centre
- FNB Cornubia
- FNB Glen Shopping Centre
- FNB Greenpoint
- FNB Lynwood
- FNB Merchant Place
OTHER BANKS
- Discovery Bank Head Office
- Investec Bank Sandown
How it works
It’s quite simple to renew your passport or ID document at a bank branch in South Africa, and takes 15 days from application to collection.
Users are asked to create an application, where they are required to fill in the following information:
- Country
- Residential and postal address
- Location to have biometrics captured
- Where to collect documents
Have you applied for a passport at any of these bank branches? How was your experience?
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