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You will likely need a late registration of birth certificate but you can apply for a temporary ID in the meantime.
Yes, but you may need help to get Home Affairs to comply.
Email the refugee reception office where your last extension was made.
No, only South Africans can apply for SA identity documents. Here is how to renew your asylum permit online.
If you are older than 18, you don't need your parents' permission.
Home Affairs online asylum renewal process has not yet started.
You may need legal intervention to compel Social Services to issue the required documentation for Home Affairs.
You need to apply at the nearest Refugee Reception Office, but all the offices are closed during lockdown.
You may need legal assistance
If you are younger than 21, you would apply to a school by the last day of the first term, for the following year.