South Africans who live and work overseas, and have children overseas, are often unaware of the rules of the registration of children and the problematic situations that could arise regarding the nationality of their children.

Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants get frequent queries from South Africans with dual nationality on whether they should travel to SA with their foreign passport or with their SA passport.

The consultants at Breytenbachs Immigration often receive very anxious cries for help from South African clients, who are in desperate situations regarding their SA passports.

South Africans are fortunate enough to be allowed to hold more than two nationalities. It is, however, important to note that a person must first apply to retain his or her South African citizenship before taking on any other nationality through naturalisation. Should you fail to do so, you will automatically lose your South African citizenship. The exception to this rule is for persons who acquire nationality via descent.

The consultants at the Breytenbachs SA Immigration Department often have to assist South African citizens, with overseas-born children, with issues arising from the fact, that the children do not have South African or dual citizenship. We have thus compiled some advice in this regard, to make life and a visit to South Africa a little bit easier!

Thanks to a law created in 1949, South Africans who have acquired citizenship in another country, without the prior written consent of the Minister of Home Affairs, run the risk of losing their South African citizenship.

The South African Immigration Department of Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants provide some valuable advice to South Africans who want to travel to South Africa with their children, not registered as South African citizens.

BIC consultants unfortunately often have to witness the frustration of persons who have lost their South African citizenship, either by choice, inaction, or by simply being uninformed about the process of retaining one’s South African nationality.

SA Fast Track, a Home Affairs document procurement service company, has gone into liquidation leaving many people out of pocket and without vital documents such as passports and birth certificates.

Saffas need to apply for the Retention of South African citizenship before gaining British citizenship