Banking3.01.2018

Bank branches where you can apply for your smart ID card

Smart ID in hand

Home Affairs launched its online Smart ID and passport applications portal on 7 April 2016.

It was initially only open to South Africans aged between 30 and 35, but Home Affairs gradually increased the range of people allowed to use the website. By 25 August 2016 the eHomeAffairs website was made available to everyone.

When the service first launched there were eleven participating branches from ABSA, FNB, Nedbank, and Standard Bank.

Since then, FNB has moved its participating branch in Tshwane from Menlyn to The Grove Mall in Lynnwood, and has added its President West Street branch to the list.

ID book end-of-life hoax

Last year, a message claiming to be a notice from Home Affairs was circulated online, stating that the green barcoded ID book would no longer be accepted as identification from 31 March 2018.

However, Home Affairs has said that it has made no such announcement.

While there is a plan to systematically phase out the ID book, the department said the green barcoded ID remains a legal form of identification.

The ID book will remain legal identification until the Live Capture System is rolled out to all Home Affairs offices, it added.

Currently there are 180 Home Affairs offices equipped with Live Capture systems, Home Affairs said. South Africans not near one of the branches listed below may visit a Home Affairs office rather than using its eChannel system.

Participating Smart ID and passport bank branches

Branch City Address
ABSA Centurion Lifestyle Centurion Centurion Lifestyle Centre, c/o Old Johannesburg Road & Lenchen Ave
ABSA Towers North Johannesburg 180 Commissioner Street, Johannesburg
ABSA Ghandi Square Johannesburg Ghandi Square, Johannesburg
FNB President Street West Johannesburg 47 Pixley Ka Isaka Seme (Sauer) St, Johannesburg
FNB Lynnwood Pretoria Grove Shopping Mall
FNB Merchant Place Johannesburg 4 Merchant Place, Cnr Rivonia Road and Fredman Drive
FNB Centurion Lifestyle Centurion Centurion Lifestyle Centre, c/o Old Johannesburg Road & Lenchen Ave
Standard Bank Centurion Centurion Standard Bank Building, 1263 Embankment Rd
Standard Bank Killarney, Rosebank Johannesburg Killarney Mall, c/o Riviera Road and Killarney Ave
Standard Bank Canal Walk Cape Town Shop 599LL, Canal Walk Shopping Centre, Century City Dr
Nedbank Sandown Johannesburg 135 Rivonia Road (c/o Rivonia and Maude Street)
Nedbank Lakeview, Roodepoort Johannesburg 16 Constantia Drive

Now read: South Africa’s Smart ID card “one of the most advanced in the world”

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