SA passport and Smart ID applications via your banking app?
As reported by MyBroadband , who recently asked the Department of Home Affairs whether these services would be made available to digital banks anytime soon.
According to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, however, making the services available at bank branches is a still a forerunner to integrating them into banking apps.
'Our goal is to enable our services to be available virtually, including through banking apps, so that clients can access those services from the comfort of their own homes,' Schreiber said, as per MyBroadband .
'This is all part of the same process, as integrating Home Affairs services onto banking platforms in branches is the logical precursor to delivering those same services online and on apps.' the Minister added.
If all goes according to plan, this would mean that digital bank users will have access to a variety of Home Affairs services via their banking apps, as well as no longer needing to stand in long queues at Home Affairs offices or at banks.
While this may not happen as soon as we'd like, there are now even more bank branches which offer passport and smart ID card applications in South Africa. Take a look… Canal Walk, Century City
Centurion Lifestyle Centre
Jubilee Mall, Hammanskraal
Kathu Mall, Postmasburg
Killarney Mall, Johannesburg
Kingsmead, Durban
Mitchell's Plain Promenade
Newton Park, Port Elizabeth
Simmonds Street, Johannesburg Burgersfort, Twin City Complex
Centurion Lifestyle Centre
Cornubia, Durban
Glen Shopping Centre
Lynnwood
Merchant Place
The Grove Mall Centurion Lifestyle Centre
Key West, Krugersdorp
Sandton City
Stellenbosch
Towers, Cape Town
Stellenbosch Square Arcadia
Constantia Kloof
Rivonia
St George's Mall, Cape Town
Newton Park, Port Elizabeth
Kathu
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