19-01-2006, 03:52 PM
The staff at the Home affairs section are the rudest, most arrogant incompetents that i have ever had the misfortune to deal with. They have no idea. When we went in to renew the kids passports one guy insisted that we have to come back with the children for finger prints...WHEN IT STATES ON THE BLOODY FORM IT IS NOT NECESSARY.
I chased things up with Pretoria to be told that the passports had been despatched two weeks prior to my enquiry. SA House were adamant that if we had not received a letter teling us to collect them, they had not been received. I demanded they look and hey presto, two childrens passports and not a hint of an apology.
My wife's section 6.... ha, after asking where to hand in the application, we were told to stand in the queue, which we did for 2 hours...only to be told at the counter that we should have gone straight to the cashier.....forget getting it done while you wait as the website indicates....we waited longer than the UK naturalization process for it.
The system sucks...the British High Commission in Pretoria will renew a UK passport in around 3 days. The fact that it can take months to get one from SA is ludicrous.
I chased things up with Pretoria to be told that the passports had been despatched two weeks prior to my enquiry. SA House were adamant that if we had not received a letter teling us to collect them, they had not been received. I demanded they look and hey presto, two childrens passports and not a hint of an apology.
My wife's section 6.... ha, after asking where to hand in the application, we were told to stand in the queue, which we did for 2 hours...only to be told at the counter that we should have gone straight to the cashier.....forget getting it done while you wait as the website indicates....we waited longer than the UK naturalization process for it.
The system sucks...the British High Commission in Pretoria will renew a UK passport in around 3 days. The fact that it can take months to get one from SA is ludicrous.
SPAM in a can....Now available in regular, turkey, Lite and HOT