Unabridged Birth Certificate
• A unabridged birth certificate is a certificate of birth showing both the persons parents details.
• The unabridged birth certificate is a computer print out and the document can be apostilled or legalised.
• To obtain a unabridged birth certificate application form DHA 154 must be completed and handed in at any office of the department of Home Affairs with the prescribed fee
• The issue time for a unabridged birth certificate takes between 6 weeks and 6 months tending more to the latter.
Vault Copy of Birth Certificate
• A vault copy of a birth certificate is a copy of the actual birth registration form when the birth was first registered. These copies are usually needed to prove the right to citizenship or a passport i.e British Passport
• The vault copy of a birth certificate can be apostilled or legalised.
• To obtain a vault copy of a birth certificate application form DHA 154 must be completed and handed in at any office of the department of Home Affairs with the prescribed fee
• The issue time for a vault copy of a birth certificate takes between 6 weeks and 6 months tending more to the latter.
Abridged Birth Certificate
• A abridged birth certificate is a certificate of birth showing the persons details.
• The abridged birth certificate is a computer print out and the document can not be apostilled or legalised.
• To obtain a unabridged birth certificate application form DHA 154 must be completed and handed in at any office of the department of Home Affairs with the prescribed fee
• The issue time for a unabridged birth certificate is between 10 minutes and a few hours, depending on how busy home affairs are at that day.
Additional Application Forms for people born from 2000
Due to the fact that Home Affairs has not finalised the confirmation of all Births
Since 2000 a BI 24 must be completed in addition to the application form namely the DHA 154.
Why does it take so long to obtain unabridged certificates and vault copies? The details are kept on paper in secure vaults. When a application is done for either a unabridged birth certificate or a vault copy of the birth certificate the processing department must apply for the original file from the vaults. On receipt the computer system is first updated and only then the certificates are issued.
Unabridged and Vault copies can take between 6 weeks and six months. In urgent cases
we cab assist u to expedite the process
How do we do it?
- Well we hand it in, and bug them in every way we know .
- Success can not be guaranteed although we have a high success rate.
Process and Payment
1) Email us with your request stating the following information
• What certificate you need
• Which year the applicants were born
2) We will email you the application forms
3) Complete the client sheet and the application forms and either scan and email
or fax back to us.( Indicate on client sheet if applications need to be expedited)
4) We will send you a account
• The account will show the amount payable i) On receipt of payment confirmation
we will lodge the applications
5) We will send you a scanned copy of the abridged certificate
6) On receipt of the certificates from Home affairs we will. Courier or Deliver as
per arrangement I