Travelling soon? Get your passport sorted at these SA banks

Planning on travelling internationally and want to ditch Home Affairs for a passport? Here are the SA banks where you can get your passport…

Here are the SA banks where you can get your passport. Photo: Canva

Get your passport renewed

If you’re booking an overseas trip soon and need to renew your passport, there are still several banks in South Africa that will offer the renewal of passports and IDs until March 2024, and possibly even beyond that date.

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

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ABSA

Absa Centurion
Absa Key West Krugersdorp
Absa Sandton City
Absa Port Elizabeth

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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

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FNB

FNB Burgersfort
FNB Centurion Lifestyle Centre
FNB Cornubia
FNB Glen Shopping Centre
FNB Greenpoint
FNB Lynwood
FNB Merchant Place

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How it works

According to reports, 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.

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Users are asked to create an application, where they are required to fill in the following information: