Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022<\/p>\n
WHEREAS the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has introduced new technology on the issuance of electronically readable passports;<\/p>\n
AND WHEREAS there is a backlog on applications for machine readable passports that needs to be cleared;<\/p>\n
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;<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
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\u2014<\/p>\n
1. These regulations may be cited as the Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022.<\/p>\n
2. In these regulations\u2014
\n\u201cpassport\u201d means either a machine readable passport or an electronically readable passport.<\/p>\n
3. The Minister has fixed passport fees as specified in the First and Second Schedules<\/p>\n
First schedule (Section 3)<\/p>\n
MACHINE-READABLE PASSPORT FEES<\/p>\n
The fees payable shall be\u2014
\n(a) ordinary passport . . . . . . . . . . . . USD $100
\n(b) emergency or express passport . . . . . . . USD $200<\/p>\n
Second schedule (Section 3)<\/p>\n
ELECTRONICALLY-READABLE PASSPORT FEES<\/p>\n
The fees payable shall be\u2014
\n(a) ordinary passport . . . . . . . . . . . . USD $100
\n(b) emergency or express passport . . . . . . . USD $200
\n(c) the following additional fee shall be charged for every electronically readable passport application to obtain a quick response (QR) code . . . . USD$20<\/p>\n
4. The Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022, published in Statutory Instrument 3 of 2022, are repealed.<\/p>\n
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