SA passport fees going up from November—here’s how much you’ll pay

Securing a passport will now become a bit more costly. This comes after the Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, announced a new fee increase for passports and travel documents, effective 1 November 2022.

An adult passport with 32 pages will now cost R600 (up from R400), while the 48 pages/maxi will cost R1200 (up from R800). For kids, the new price will be R600 (up from R400).

The fees for issuing passports and travel documents were last changed in 2011.

SA Gov News reports that the decision for the price increase is due to the production costs.

“The changes to passport and travel document fees were informed by the outcome of a bench-marking exercise with other countries which found that South African tariffs were up to three times lower”.

“The decision was also informed by the fact that production costs are much higher than what people are paying for passports. This means the Government is heavily subsidising passport holders when such a subsidy is not realised for ordinary ID applicants”.

Here’s what you will pay for a South African passport or travel document made within the Republic:

Here’s what you will pay for a South African passport or travel document made outside of the Republic, at Missions, Embassies, or Consulates:

Emergency travel passport?

“Once more, we wish to advise our people that there is nothing called an emergency passport. The emergency travel certificate mentioned above is a document available only to South Africans stranded abroad. It helps them to come back home and when they arrive, the usefulness of the document lapses.

“There is no emergency travel certificate for South Africans who need to travel abroad,” said Minister Motsoaledi in a statement.

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