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Accommodations should be made to help you if you look different because you have aged since your last ID photo was taken and your fingerprints are faded.
Make an affidavit and apply for a duplicate clinic card from the hospital where you were born.
If you have something with her ID number on, go to Home Affairs and ask them to help you with the ID. You can report her death by lodging a completed death notice.
Home Affairs is dealing with a huge backlog of applications. You may need legal aid to compel them to process yours now.
Home Affairs is supposed to let your adoptive parents help you apply. They should also tell you why your applications have been denied.
There is a huge backlog at Home Affairs, so the acting Director-General extended existing permits for those who applied or appealed before 20 November 2023.
Yes, but only with the mother's permission can an application be made to the High Court.
Probably not. You can ask Home Affairs if they can expedite your fingerprint verification.
You can make a sworn affidavit explaining his position and try to apply for it as his parent/guardian.
You can apply for a spousal visa on a visitor’s visa from within South Africa, following a Constitutional Court ruling in June 2019.