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Good morning everyone. Thanks for you constant help and contributions.
Are we allowed to go home with our passport after submitting visa application at VFS? Or possibly an option to? I need my passport for a trip next week and I want to apply for SA visa tomorrow. Thanks in advance for your prompt response.

chemashie:
Even people that applied from SA to switch from study permits to Research visas are yet to receive their passports and/or visas since December/January. It's no longer the problem of where you applied from but a systematic method to prevent foreigners into RSA. They should just release my passport to enable me process UK visa.

You don't submit your passport when you apply for a visa in SA. You go back with your passport to the VFS office when a decision is available. I have applied for SA visa while in SA. We should be careful about the information we spread, it breeds so much fear and it's unfair on people who have legitimate things to do in SA!