{"id":26498,"date":"2020-02-14T10:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:10:23","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-demands-200-top-up-for-ordinary-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/zimbabwe-govt-demands-200-top-up-for-ordinary-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Demands $200 Top-Up For Ordinary Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Chibamu<\/p>\n<p>ALL citizens who paid $53 to get an ordinary passport before the fees were raised to $253, are expected to pay the difference of $200 before their travel documents are processed.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced Thursday by the Registrar General Clemence Masango during a tour of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services at Makombe Building in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Masango also told the MPs that the RG\u2019s Office was at the moment only processing emergency passports due to limited consumables to clear the backlog for ordinary passports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, the $53 passports are on backlog and not being printed because their charges do not meet the current printing costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/watch-govt-demands-200-top-up-for-ordinary-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/watch-govt-demands-200-top-up-for-ordinary-passports\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Anna Chibamu ALL citizens who paid $53 to get an ordinary passport before the fees were raised to $253, are expected to pay the difference of $200 before their travel documents are processed. This was announced Thursday by the Registrar General Clemence Masango during a tour of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-zimbabwe-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-668","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26499,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26498\/revisions\/26499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}