Mobile units not equipped with ID card machines
Home Affairs will do their best to assist the senior citizens.
The senior citizens living at Presidentia have asked Springs Home Affairs for assistance in applying for their smart ID cards.
Resident Petra Verwey feels there are a lot of residents in wheelchairs and some using walking rings, who find it difficult to walk.
If these residents go to the the office in Welgedacht Road, they have to stand in long queues which makes it difficult for them.
She says they have received two wheelchairs which they use to fetch the residents from their homes and push them to the hall on the premises.
“If Home Affairs can send a mobile unit to our premises it will be most helpful,” she says.
Petra previously faxed through a request to the Home Affairs office, but received no comment.
Springs Home Affairs’ administrative assistant director Wilna Birkholtz says the problem they are experiencing is the mobile units aren’t equipped with smart card machines.
She says they will be able to dispatch the mobile units to retirement villages and metro homes, but the applications taken will only extend to the old green ID books and not the ID cards.
The Addie asked Rina if the mobile units will be equipped with smart card machines in the future to which she said only that it will not be possible during the current financial year.
