• Visit the Registrar General's Department
• Provide the necessary information and submit the required documents.
• Pay the applicable fees.
• If the applicant does not have a birth entry number he/she will furnish the office with the date or year when his/her birth was initially registered and pay US$10 search fee for each year provided.

• Applicant's Identity document.

Registrar General's Department

Central Registry Office

Makombe Building

Harare

Zimbabwe

Email: helpdesk@rg.gov.zw

Provide eligibility criteria's for going through this procedure.

Statutory fee for

• Normal processing: US$5.
• Urgent processing: US$10.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Please attach documents which can be used by people who would like to follow this procedure.    

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Minimum processing time

• Normal birth certificate - 5 working days.

Urgent birth certificate - 24 hours

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M".

Please provide instructions on obtaining the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

• Applicant's birth entry number.

This page contains information on how to obtain a copy of birth certificate in Zimbabwe.

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

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More information which might help people.