Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister, Kazembe Kazembe has revised fees for the e-passport scrapping the US$20 application fee that was to be collected by CBZ bank.
This comes after criticism that the arrangement was corrupt. Pindula News presents Statutory Instrument 3 of 2023 gazetted on the 7th of January 2022:
Statutory Instrument 3 of 2022.
[CAP. 4:01 Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations. 2022
IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has, in terms of section 22 of the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01]. made the following regulations:—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022.
2. For the purposes of these regulations—”passport” means a machine-readable passport or an electronically-readable passport.
3. The Minister has fixed passport fees as specified in the Schedule.
SCHEDULE
FEES
The fees payable for obtaining one’s passport shall be—
(a) passport issued on non-emergency basis……………………USD$100,00
(b) emergency passport ……………………………………………………….USDS200.00.
4. The Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2021, published in Statutory Instrument 273 of 2021, are repealed.