News24 | Home Affairs Breakthrough: Banking Apps to Offer ID, Passport Applications

This SA bank now allows you to get your ID, passport via its app

First National Bank (FNB) is expanding its partnership with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to improve service delivery and accessibility nationwide Customers can now apply for the re-issuance and first-time applications of Smart IDs and passports through the FNB Banking App or its branch network, the financial services provider said in a statement. The collaboration, which began in 2015, has already seen more than 570,000 Smart IDs and pas…

News24 | Home Affairs breakthrough: Banking apps to offer ID, passport applications

Home Affairs has partnered with Capitec and FNB to allow clients to apply for Smart IDs and passports through their banking apps and to turbocharge the number of branches where applications can be made.

Home Affairs partners with banking apps to offer ID, passport applications

The Home Affairs Department has partnered with Capitec and FNB to allow clients to apply for smart IDs and passports

Capitec, FNB to deliver smart IDs, passports in hundreds of its branches

Capitec and First National Bank are the first banks to sign up to the home affairs  department’s digital partnership model that will expand access to smart ID and passport services from the existing 30 to hundreds more.

Home affairs partners with Capitec and FNB on smart IDs and passports

Government’s medium-term development plan is to make services available at 1,000 banks by 2029

New era for Smart IDs as Capitec and FNB expand services nationwide

Source: Gauteng Tourism Authority.Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber announced that the latest partnership between Capitec Bank and First National Bank (FNB) will expand Smart ID and passport services from the current 30 to hundreds more bank branches in both urban and rural areas across South Africa. Read more...