I would like to apply for South Africa citizenship by naturalization. Travel records of the past 5 yrs are required. Unfortunately, i lost my passport in April 2018 which means i don't have any records prior to that date. How can i successful convince Dept of Home Affairs that i never left South Africa for more than 90 days in the past 5 yrs? Can i use an affidavit, employer's letter or bank statement at least to prove that i was around.
SA Citizenship application
Thabani2005Zim
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I would like to thank everyone for your prayers. The xenophobic minister is sitting on number 53 on the 2024 ANC Candidate List. This means his chance of being reappointed as the minister is very, very slim. Let's keep on praying guys. This minister is just being arrogant and selfish.
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As far as I know minister Aaron is not interested in signing those certificates. He declared that as long as he is the minister of home affairs, he will never induct a foreigner to be a South African. And for sure since 2018 no one has been legally naturalised in South Africa.
Did he really say that? Then a court of law needs to compel him to sign.
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It surprises me that citizenship applications are approved, inductions done but certificates cannot be signed and issued. We have been waiting for these certificates for long. May God touch the heart of this minister to sign them
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I don't think anyone has received any certificates yet. Why start from 2019, what of other years
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Unfortunately, I have no clue! Hopefully we will have a better idea after 30 June 2024
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Yes I am.
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Sometimes it stays that long, especially when there's much workload. Let's hope you will have an outcome soon and apply for your citizenship
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did you apply through VFS? I did mine in march 2023 and got the outcome after 5 months
Hi, yes I did apply through VFS Johannesburg. I submitted in August 2023 and nothing still. I have sent an email and called severally but nothing positive yet. 🥲💔
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When I applied they informed it it can take up to 12 months for this
I guess I fall within that category 🥲
I applied at the beginning of 2019 and am still waiting to hear something. I did my induction in June 2022. when we did the induction in the room, I had a lot of people who had applied from 2009, a few in 2012, and all the way to 2018. In fact, there were only 3 of us in a room of about 30 people who had applied in 2019. The rest had all but given up and were surprised to get phone calls for induction. Two guys who had applied in 2017 received their certificates after that induction, as their certificates had been ready for a while somewhere in PTA. However, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that one day, we will all get our certificates.
But how or where do you check if you certificate is printed?
I don't think you can track these events, they happen outside the system and as such they don't affect anyone's KPIs at DHA
a. Induction
b. Signing of allegiance
c. Issue of certificate
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