Cuban Embassy for South Africa - Address / Phone Number

Cuban Embassy in South Africa

Address: 45 Mackenzie Street, Brooklyn 0181
City: Pretoria (Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Tel.: 012 346 2215
Fax: 012 346 2216
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00 - 12.30
Jurisdiction: South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland

Cuban Embassy ensures all co-nationals protection against the violation of their fundamental rights and the limitation or privation of their personal freedom. They also ensure emergency assistance; help in locating family members, inheritance procedures initiated abroad and for the repatriation of mortal remains. The consular services include:

• Registry
• Health and economic assistance
• Repatriation and repatriation for health reasons
• Consular protection
• Citizenship
• Military service
• Notary services
• Electoral services
• Passports
• Pensions
• Civil status
• Study
• Adoption
• Visas, etc.

Payment can be done in Cash in our Office or by Bank Transference to: Embassy of Cuba, First National Bank of Pretoria. Copy of the transfer should be sent by email or by FAX to the office.

Every Cuban citizen requesting consular services (with the exception of Travel Permit Abroad Extensions for 11 months) must be registered. Applications may be made in person at the Consulate or by mail. A completely filled out form must be presented along with a photocopy of the Passport, two photographs and a stamped self-addressed envelope so that the Consular Registration Card, which has to be presented when requesting any Consular Service, can be mailed. The Consular Fee for this service must be paid.

NOTE: If the application is being made by mail or via a third party, an extra Consular fee will be charged for the pertinent Consular service. All payments must be made in cash or by a bank certified cheque. Cash sent by mail will be refused and returned at the risk of the applicant.  

Passports: In the case of a lost Passport, besides complying with the requirements from sub-article 2 to sub-article 5, a police report for lost property must be presented along with a photocopy of the lost Passport: if there is no photocopy, a Birth Certificate must be presented or other certificate stating the Cuban citizenship.

In the procedures are followed by mail, a bank-certified cheque must be sent, accompanied by a self-addressed envelope bearing enough postage for the documents to be returned to the applicant by Certified Mail.  A new Passport will not be delivered if the expired Passport has not been sent. Please do not mail cash. Applications for new Passports must be made two months before the date of intended travel.

Cuban Passports are valid for a total of 6 years and may be extended for two years every two years.  Passport extensions are made once every two years and, to have the right for a second extension, payment for the right to the first extension must have been made. 

Passport Authorizations permit limitless entries into Cuba without the need of any other formalities than the original application. This allows Cuban emigrants to stay in Cuba for 30 days, a stay that can be extended for a maximum of 30 additional days by making an application in person at the Immigration Office closest to the residence of their family in Cuba. This Authorization is not intended for PRE and PSI holders.  These must continue requesting their PRE-3for entry into Cuba. 

This authorization procedure is made only once.  When it is granted, it has indefinite validity.  The application can be made at the Cuban Consulate which will be in charge of dispatching it to Cuban Immigration Services, and these will either approve or refuse its granting.  A corresponding form must be filled out.

To be able to travel to Cuba, the authorization must be stamped into the passport of the Cuban citizen.  Even though it may have been approved, it must be entered into the passport in order to be able to enter the country.

The Embassy is closed on the following holidays:

• January 1st and 2nd.Triumph of the Revolution
• May 1st.May Day
• July 25th, 26th, 27th.National Rebelliousness Day
• October 10th.Independence Day
• December 25th.Christmas Day
• December 31st.New year´s Eve Day