I just renewed my passport at our consulate in johannesburg and i was issued a passport with a different passport number although they stamped on one of the pages that i was formally using a passport with the passport number of the one that expired.
Now wouldn't it have been easier to issue me a new passport that has the same passport number as the old one? Do they change the numbers for security reasons or what? Today i went to my bank to have my details updated to that of the new passport but they asked to see the old passport first to confirm. A lot of my documents have the old passport number on it, does it mean that i have to change the passport number on my documents? I just don't understand.