If you have already submitted your birth certificate application directly with the Department of Home Affairs, you may not need to start again. We can take the details of your existing application and manage the South African follow-up for you.
This service is designed for people who have already lodged an application with the Department of Home Affairs. Instead of submitting a second application, the aim is to identify the existing case and undertake the appropriate South African follow-up to expedite it.
Tell us what you applied for, when you applied and which Home Affairs office handled the original application.
Upload the application form and receipt where available, together with the information needed to identify you and the case.
Your information is checked to establish whether the application can proceed through the expedited route.
For a qualifying application, the existing Home Affairs case can then be followed up and expedited locally.
If your birth certificate application is already lodged with Home Affairs and can be identified, create your account and provide the existing application details for assessment.
Start my expedited case →If no application has been lodged, there is nothing to expedite. We can instead handle the full birth certificate application from the beginning through our managed service.
View the full managed service →