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 The Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022, published in Statutory Instrument 3 of 2022, are repealed.

Download: https://www.veritaszim.net/node/5454

Repealed and replaced by Citizenship (Passport Fees) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 (No. 1)

Themes: ID Documents and Passports
Regions: Zimbabwe
Year: 2022