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South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

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116 points mooreds | 2 comments | 14 Oct 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.659s | source
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stroebs ◴[21 Oct 25 14:12 UTC] No.45656069[source]▶
My father (born in ZA) had to re-register his birth at 65 when emigrating to the UK on a visa. The ZA government had no record of his birth, despite him having a drivers license, passport, tax returns for 40+ years…

This is the least bit surprising coming from a country that is in steady decline.

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1. bloak ◴[21 Oct 25 14:58 UTC] No.45656643[source]▶
Do you know why the British authorities wanted a birth certificate? Did his ZA passport show date and place of birth? Did the ZA birth certificate have some other information that the British authorities specifically wanted, like the names of the parents? Or were the authorities just following some standard procedure with no obvious purpose?
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2. stroebs ◴[21 Oct 25 15:21 UTC] No.45656945[source]▶
One of the basic requirements for an ancestry visa.