First British Passport

[jkproperties]

Hi,
So my wife will apply for her first British Passport.
She was born in 1980 SA to a British Father, when we do the application online it asks for a Full birth certificate, we interpreted this as an unabridged birth certificate, but are seeing applicants on facebook groups are being told unabridged is not sufficient and a vault copy is required.

Is this correct?
I understand this is a huge task for South African Home affairs and some people wait many years for a Vault Copy.

Advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Jaco

[CR001]

Vault copy is required if she does not have the original that was issued stating parents name within a year of her birth as far as I understand.

An unabridged birth cert from Home Affairs will be dated from the date it is issued.

My vault copies took about 4 months.

[jkproperties]

Vault copy is required if she does not have the original that was issued stating parents name within a year of her birth as far as I understand.

An unabridged birth cert from Home Affairs will be dated from the date it is issued.

My vault copies took about 4 months.

Thank you for the reply CR001,
I will have to make use of an agent, we can't afford such a delay at this stage of the process.
Thank you so much for your help as always.

[jkproperties]

I see Marriage certificate for my wife’s parents is required, would this also have to be a Vault copy?
Or would abridged suffice? We will apply for all of them.

Her parents are however divorced.
Thank you,

[fvigaud]

My parents are divorced as well but that did not matter. I submitted a certified and apostilled copy of the marriage certificate (not a ‘vault’ copy)

[jkproperties]

Thank you, we have ordered the Vault and unabridged.