Zimbabwe: SI 2022-016 Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations
Published: 21/Jan/2022
Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022
WHEREAS the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has introduced new technology on the issuance of electronically readable passports;
AND WHEREAS there is a backlog on applications for machine readable passports that needs to be cleared;
AND WHEREAS the fees specified in the First Schedule below relate only to citizens who will apply for machine-readable passports from the date of the gazetting of these regulations;
AND WHEREAS a machine-readable passport shall be issued where there is no capacity to issue an electronically readable passport at the time of any particular application:
NOW, THEREFORE, in terms of section 22 of the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01], the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, has made the following regulations—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022.
2. In these regulations—
“passport” means either a machine readable passport or an electronically readable passport.
3. The Minister has fixed passport fees as specified in the First and Second Schedules
First schedule (Section 3)
MACHINE-READABLE PASSPORT FEES
The fees payable shall be—
(a) ordinary passport . . . . . . . . . . . . USD $100
(b) emergency or express passport . . . . . . . USD $200
Second schedule (Section 3)
ELECTRONICALLY-READABLE PASSPORT FEES
The fees payable shall be—
(a) ordinary passport . . . . . . . . . . . . USD $100
(b) emergency or express passport . . . . . . . USD $200
(c) the following additional fee shall be charged for every electronically readable passport application to obtain a quick response (QR) code . . . . USD$20
4. The Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022, published in Statutory Instrument 3 of 2022, are repealed.
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Repealed and replaced by Citizenship (Passport Fees) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 (No. 1)