SOUTH AFRICAN SURNAMES
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PLEASE NOTE
If you are a South African citizen who is looking to
apply for an ancestral visa for immigration purposes:
Countries which issue ancestral visas require that the PERSON applying
for such visa, have a GRANDparent (or sometimes parent) born in that country.
You also have to provide official documents (birth, marriage and / or
death certificates) showing your line of descendent from the grandparent
and/or parent.
The certificate MUST be a VAULT copy (which is a photocopy of the original
entry in the Registrar Book held by the Department Of Home Affairs). A
vault copy will have two pinkish stamps of that department. One is a date
stamp and the other states a "true copy of the original". FULL or UNABRIDGED
certificates WILL NOT be accepted.
If you engage a genealogist to help you trace your ancestry for visa
purposes, it is important that you make this fact known to such genealogist.
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