Visa in South Africa

South Africa is an amazing country, which every year more and more tourists visit. South Africa pleases its guests with interesting and unique museums, historical monuments, landscapes and sea rest. In order to visit this wonderful country, residents of the Russian Federation and CIS countries need a visa.

How to get a tourist visa?

In order to visit South Africa for tourism purposes, you need to obtain a visa. The procedure is not complicated, but in order to ensure that it is not delayed, it is necessary to collect a full package of documents, which should be addressed to the embassies of South Africa.

List of required documents:

1. A foreign passport for which the same rules apply as for obtaining visas to other countries, namely, that it operates for another 30 days after the end of the trip.
2. Photocopy of the title page of the passport.
3. Photos 3x4 cm with your current appearance (hair color, haircut, including the shape of the eyebrows, the presence of large piercings or tattoos). It is important that the photos are colored and executed on a light background, without any frames, corners and other things.
4. A copy of all the completed pages of the internal passport, as well as pages about children and marriage, even if they are not filled.
5. Questionnaire BI-84E. This form is filled in English in black ink and in block letters, ideally on a computer. In the end, it is obligatory to put the signature of the applicant.
6. Photocopy of the title page of the passport.
7. Minors are required to provide the original or a copy of the birth certificate.

In the event that the trip is organized by a travel agency that has registered in South Africa, you must also provide the original or a photocopy of the invitation from the tour operator company. In this invitation, you must specify the purpose and duration of the trip, as well as a detailed program of stay is required.

The visa fee is 47 cu. After payment, please keep a receipt.

Important information

Apply for a visa to South Africa is necessary in person, because during this procedure you will take fingerprints. But this rule applies only to those who turned 18 years old. If a visa is issued for a minor, then the documents can be filed by the parents, without the presence of children.

You can take the passport from the embassy through a trustee, but you do not need to do a power of attorney from a notary, but if the passport gets into the wrong hands, then the embassy does not bear any responsibility. In order to receive the document it is necessary to present a receipt for payment of the fee, it is he who is the proof that the person who comes is the applicant's authorized representative. But even if you personally came for a passport and did not present a check, then you have the right not to give a passport.