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Citizenship issues
Regularise
citizenship status: RG's Office
The Herald
(Zimbabwe)
January 18, 2005
http://www.zimbabweherald.com/index.php?id=39813&pubdate=2005-01-18
THE Registrar-General’s
Office has invited people made "stateless" by the Citizenship Amendment
Act number 12 of 2003 to come forward and regularise their citizenship
status.
Failure by the affected people to regularise their citizenship would result
in them failing to vote in the on-coming elections.
Affected people include those born in the country or any other country
in the Sadc region whose parents were Zimbabwean.
"Persons falling within this category are those born in Zimbabwe and one
of their parents was born in a Sadc country and entered the country on
or before 18th April 1980," said the Registrar General, Mr Tobaiwa Mudede,
in a state- ment.
He said those whose parents entered the country as migrant workers and
remained in the country until the affected person’s birth were citizens
by birth.
Some of these people had lost their citizenship after failing to certify
the origins of their pare nts.
People born in Zimbabwe and continuously remained resident in the country
since birth except for any temporary absence from this country and had
not at any time after their birth acquired any foreign citizenship or
foreign passport, whether voluntary or otherwise, or enjoyed the protection
of any foreign country were legible for Zimbabwean citizenship, Mr Mudede
said.
He said also eligible were those born in a Sadc country with one of his
or her parents having been born in Zimbabwe but left the country on or
before April 18, 1980 for a Sadc country as a migrant worker.
Mr Mudede said those who qualify for regularisation should be individuals
who have not at anytime after the date of their first entry into Zimbabwe
acquired any foreign citizenship or other foreign passport, whether voluntarily
or otherwise, or enjoyed the protection of any foreign country.
"Those who fail to regularise their citizenship by January 30, 2005 may
find that they do not qualify to vote in the March Parliamentary Elections,"
Mr Mudede said.
He said those intending to regularise their status should visit the nearest
Registrar-General offices with their birth certificates, national identity
card and passport if they have any.
Meanwhile, the Registrar-General has published names of individuals who
have either supplied incomplete or incorrect residential addresses when
they registered as voters in their constituencies to report with their
national identity cards to the nearest registry office.
In a notice yesterday, the Registrar-General, Mr Tobaiwa Mudede, said
the voters risked being struck off the voters’ roll if they did not approach
their respective district registry offices within a period of two weeks.
"Please be advised that failure to report as requested and directed within
14 days from this date (of notice) will result in the constituency registrars
removing the voter’s name from the roll in accordance with section 25
of the Electoral Act chapter 2;01," he said.
The Registrar-General’s department is in the process of updating the voters’
roll in preparation of the forthcoming General Elections scheduled for
March this year.
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