RealTime/Profile_ID/Marital Status- Home Affairs Verifcation

Home Affairs ID Verification API - Realtime(Live), ProfileID(Offline), Marital(Live) ID Photo(Live)

The API service provides an efficient and fast way to verify South African ID data against Home Affairs data. It does this by allowing a 3rd party to submit a valid RSA identification number and retrieving the defined results.

• The validity of ID number. Validity is verified against the DHA database (not only by checksum values).
• Forenames (first names). First names strings are returned.
• Lastname is returned.
• Official date of birth,(DOB)  will be returned.
• Country of Birth - Returns foreign country of birth (ZIM/GBR/GER/USA)
• Gender at birth will be returned.
• Citizenship: South African or Foreign at the date of birth is returned.
• ID Blocked Status at DHA. 
• Alive/Dead. This function will also check the identification number against the deceased records database.
  • Deceased date
  • Deceased place
  • Deceased reason 
    • Natural 
    • Unnatural
• Married Status. This function will also check the identification number against the married records database.
  
  • Married
  • Single 
  • Divorced
• ID Photo on file will be returned if available (Separate API service).
• ID Document Type.
  • Smart card/ID Book
  • Issue Date of document
• Access to the Developers portal requires the opening of a PBSA account and the signing of the required data sharing agreements, (see API Overview).