Preparation: Docmentation
Soutpiel Safari
John & Jenny
Fri 29 Oct 2010 10:00
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This seems to have been going on for months! We started
in May by tackling the documentation for importing the Land Rover into South
Africa as a Permanent Import and involved obtaining a Letter of Approval (LOA)
from NRCS, a branch of the South African Bureau of Standards, and an Import
Permit from ITAC, an agency of South African Customs. This process required
a great deal of form-filling and production of copies of documents but was
largely accomplished on-line from the UK, and quite quickly, which is a
great testimony to the systems organisation within these government
agencies.
Also in May we completed all the forms for the Carnet de
Passage and its associated Bank Guarantee, and for International Driving
Licences. All these were submitted in late September after we had returned from
sailing. The bank guarantee we dealt with in our
earlier blog "who loves a banker". Enough said, it did
eventually arrive and the RAC then issued the Carnet within two days; thanks to
Paul Gowen and his team.
We have passports, UK and International driving
licences, vaccination record cards, Yellow Fever certificates, and copies of all
of these. We have prepared a "fiche" in French, with basic details of
ourselves and the vehicle. This fiche is the solution (hopefully) for
avoiding filling in forms at all the numerous police road blocks especially
in Mauritania. We are carrying 25 copies! We also have all the original
documents for the Land Rover, the LOA and Import Certificate and our marriage
licence as Jenny's passports are still in her former married name, it being too
difficult and involved to change them!
All these have been scanned and we have put all the
scans onto memory sticks, one of which we shall carry with us and one we shall
leave with family.
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