• Visit the Registrar General's Department
• Bring all the necessary documents.
• Pay the prescribed fees.

• Both parents to provide Zimbabwean passports and their Zimbabwe Identity Cards.
• Marriage certificate (if not married both parents must acknowledge paternity)
• Foreign birth certificate

Registrar General's Department

Central Registry Office

Makombe Building

Harare

Zimbabwe

Email: helpdesk@rg.gov.zw

Issued to persons born out of Zimbabwe to Zimbabwean Citizens other than by descent.

Statutory fee for:

• Normal processing: US$50.

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.    

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Minimum processing time

• Normal birth certificate - 10 working days.
• Urgent birth certificates - 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.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

This page contains information on how to register external birth in Zimbabwe.

Enter other informations which might help

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

Place some external links which might help

More information which might help people.