How to fill NSFAS application form? There are still some students who prefer the old way of NSFAS application. The NSFAS application forms can be obtained from Universities, TVET Colleges or online. Visit the NSFAS website and download a copy of the NSFAS application form pdf. Make sure you read the application form sections carefully before completing the application form. Make sure that you read every section and that the information you provide is accurate.
How to Download NSFAS Application Form
Visit the NSFAS website and download a copy of the application form pdf. Download NSFAS application form 2023 here.
How to Fill NSFAS Application Form
Here’s how to fill the NSFAS application form:
- Step 1: Visit the NSFAS website and download a copy of the application form pdf
- Step 2: Fill in your personal details
- Step 3: Fill in your family details
- Step 4: Fill in employment details
- Step 5: Fill in your family structure details
- Step 6: Fill in your study details
- Step 7: Fill in your banking details
- Step 8: Sign the application form
- Step 9: Submit your NSFAS application form
Application forms submitted without ALL supporting documents will not be processed by NSFAS.
Submit your NSFAS application form with the following documents:
- Copy of your ID or birth certificate
- ID copies of parents, guardian or spouse (If applicable)
- Your proof of income or 1 year’s IRP5 (if applicable)
- Your parents, guardian or spouse’s proof of income
- If you are a SASSA grant recipient, no proof of income will be required
- Applicants with a disability must submit a completed and signed Disability Annexure A Form, click here to download
- An applicant who is recognised as a Vulnerable Child by the Department of Social Development must provide a completed and signed Vulnerable Child Declaration and Consent Form, click here to download.
How to Submit NSFAS Application Form
Please send your NSFAS application form and all supporting documents to NSFAS in any one of the following ways:
- Hand in your completed application form and supporting documents to the Financial Aid Office (FAO) at your university or FET college.
- Scan or email your completed application form and supporting documents to NSFAS at apply@nsfas.org.za.
- Fax your completed application and supporting documents to NSFAS on 086 644 2822.
- Post your completed application form and supporting documents to NSFAS, Private Bag X4, Plumstead, Western Cape, 7801.
If your application is successful, NSFAS will use the cell phone number which you write on the application form to pay some of your student allowances by cell phone voucher.
If you do not already have a bank account, please open a bank account at any bank such as Postbank, ABSA, Capitec, FNB, Standard Bank, Nedbank or others. Some student allowances will be paid into your bank account.
PLEASE NOTE: You must write your identity (ID) number in the top right-hand corner of every page of the application form and on every page of all of your supporting documents. NSFAS will not be able to process applications without an identity number.
