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For information about visas, passports and immigration, please visit the North America regional website of the Department of Home Affairs.

• Service Delivery Charter
• About the Consular Section
• Location
• Hours of Operation
• Visa, Passports and Temporary Residence Permits
• Authentication of documents
• Other Services
• Exams: UNISA and other institutions
• Frequently Asked Questions

What's New:

As from 1 April 2008 the Embassy will no longer accept courier service fees from applicants in order to return their documents. The following procedure must be complied with

Applicants must:

• Enclose a prepaid courier envelope at the time of application for documents issued locally (e.g. temporary and emergency travel certificates, temporary passports, visas and permits) to be returned to applicants; or
• Also send a prepaid courier envelope for the Embassy to despatch those documents (Received from Pretoria, South Africa) to applicants.

N.B. The applicant’s particulars must be indicated as both the sender & the receiver on the prepaid courier envelope. All prepaid envelopes/ labels must have a tracking number.

About the Consular Section

Purpose:  Responsible for the rendering of consular services to South African citizens in distress when traveling abroad and to render other consular services to clients from the United States of America.

Location

For directions please phone the Consular Section or consult Mapquest

The Consular Section (Annex) is located at :

4301 Connecticut Ave, NW, Van Ness Building Suite 220
Washington, DC 20008
Tel:  (202) 232-4400
Fax:(202) 244-9417

Mailing Address: 3051 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20008
After hours: (Emergency) (202) 361-2914

E-mails:
tsokum@foreign.gov.za (Immigration and Civic Services)
jonasn@foreign.gov.za (Consular)
consular.wa@foreign.gov.za (Consular)

 

Hours of Operation

Public hours are 9:00 am–12:00 noon (excluding weekends and public holidays)