October 2002

Questionnaire on Registrar-General’s Office
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights is compiling a database on persons who are having problems applying for passports, identity documents and birth certificates arising from uncertainties about their citizenship status. 
We believe that the Registrar General’s office is misinterpreting the Citizenship Act to deny important identity documents to persons they wrongly believe are no longer citizens of Zimbabwe. Once we have compiled our database we may be in a position to give some limited assistance to persons we feel have been unlawfully denied a passport, identity document or birth certificate. Therefore we request that you give us your name and address so that we may contact you. We will keep all your information confidential.

Name: 	
Address: 	

Phone Number 		Email: 	

Are you applying for the issuing/renewing of an identity document/birth certificate/passport?
(please cancel the inapplicable)?
Were you born in Zimbabwe?     Yes / No            If “yes” , where and when were you born?     

If you were born in Zimbabwe, were your parents born in Zimbabwe?    Yes / No    If “No”, where were they born? :  Mother:  	
Father:  	

If you were not born in Zimbabwe, when and where were you born:	

If you were not born in Zimbabwe when and how did you become a Zimbabwean citizen? 	

	
If you became a citizen of Zimbabwe by registration did you renounce your citizenship of birth, and how? 	

	
Have you ever been a citizen of a foreign country?   Yes / No            If “Yes”  which one(s)? 	
	
PTO

Are you currently a citizen of any foreign country?   YES / NO 

Do you, to your knowledge, have the right to the citizenship of a foreign country by way of birth or descent? 	

Have you ever held a Zimbabwean   	1.  passport?      Yes / No            
	2.  identity document?    Yes / No            
	3.  birth certificate?    Yes / No            

Have you ever held a foreign 	1.  passport?      Yes / No            
	2.  identity document?    Yes / No            
	3.  birth certificate?    Yes / No            

If yes, do you still hold such documents, or have you given them up?	

If you gave them up, when and how did you give them up? 	

	

Have you encountered any problems from the Registrar General’s office in having your birth certificate/identity document/passport issued/renewed? Please elaborate. 	

	

	

	

We thank you for your co-operation and assistance.

Please return your completed questionnaire to ZLHR as soon as possible by fax, post or delivery.
We will get in touch with you if we can take up your case.  

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights  
Fax: 04-251468 – 3rd Floor, G&B House, 83 Sam Nujoma (2nd) St /Herbert Chitepo Ave, Harare