Pakistan - Apply for Domicile/Citizenship Certificate

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Procedure

A certificate of domicile can be issued by the federal or a provincial government or any district magistrate authorized by a provincial government.

The Pakistan Citizenship Rules state that:
An application for a certificate of domicile shall be made in Form P' in duplicate, shall be accompanied by an affidavit affirming the truth of the statement made in it and affirming further that the applicant had not migrated to India after the first day of March 1947 or that, having so migrated, and returned to Pakistan under a permit for resettlement or permanent return issued by an officer authorized by the Government of Pakistan.
Any authority to whom an application is presented may demand such evidence as it may considered necessary for satisfying itself that the facts stated in the application are correct and that the applicant has been continually resident in Pakistan for a period not less than one year and intends to live permanently in Pakistan.

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Required Documents

• Three passport-sized photos
• Birth certificate from a grade 17 or above government officer/senator/MPA/MNA/member of a municipal committee or district council of the district
• For applicants who migrated to Pakistan from India before April 14, 1951, a residential certificate from a government officer (see above).
• For migrants from the former East Pakistan or any other district, the original domicile certificate must be surrendered
• Documents of any immoveable property in the district
• Documentary proof of occupation
• Attested copy of an NIC or a Form B for applicants below the age of 18
• Attested copy of educational certificates to the current year
• If aged less than 21, a photocopy of the NIC and domicile of the father/mother/guardian
• Attested service certificate if in government employ
• House documents: Utility bills, or an attested copy of the rent agreement if living in a rented house
• For married men/women, photocopies of the spouses NIC, domicile and attested copies of their childrens birth certificates or Form B
• Two attested photocopies of the NICs of residents from the neighbourhood
• All photocopies, neighbour forms and residence certificates must be attested by a nazim, naib nazim or a class one officer
• Affix a Rs1 ticket to all documents
• Attestation of the domicile application by an Oath Commissioner
• Attach original documents with photocopies

Office Locations & Contacts

CAPITAL TERRITORY
Islamabad;
Address
13-C, Al-Hussain Plaza, G-10 Markaz.
Telephone: 051-9239308

FATA
Mohmand Agency (Ghalanay);
Address
Civil Colony

SINDH
Karachi - I (West/Malir);
Address
Shahrah-e-Iraq, Near Mosque, Saddar.
Telephone: 021-9203092-3

PUNJAB
Lahore;
Address
Ground Floor Building 15-A, Abbott Road, Lahore (behind Police Station Qila Gujar Singh)
Telephone: 042-9201997-9201916

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Peshawar;
Address
Phase-5, near North West Hospital, Hayatabad.
Telephone: 091-9217616-7

BALOUCHISTAN
Quetta;
Address
Arbab Barkat Ali Road, Near Railway Football Ground.
Telephone: 081-9201762

AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR
Muzaffarabad;
Address
Mir Plaza Bela Noor Shah, near Bus Stand, Abbotabad Road.
Telephone: 058810-62792-93

GILGIT BALTISTAN
Skardu;
Address
Hameed Garh Chowk, near Deputy Commissioner Complex
Telephone: 05815-920109

Eligibility

• Persons who can acquire citizenship of Pakistan after applying in prescribed manner are mentioned as under:-
  
• Foreign Ladies Married to Pakistani Nationals
  
• Commonwealth Citizens who Transfer Rs.5/- Million worth of Foreign Exchange
  
• The Nationals of Countries other than Commonwealth after they have resided in Pakistan for a period of 05 years under the Naturalization Act, 1926. i.e. 12 months *Continuous stay preceding to the date of application and 04 years aggregate stay during the 07 years preceding to the said twelve months

Fees

Rs200 fees to be paid at any branch of the National Bank of Pakistan

Validity

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

Documents to Use

Download Application Form for a Certificate of Domicile/ Citizenship

Sample Documents

Sample

Processing Time

Please explain the processing time taken in obtaining the document/certificate.

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Instructions

Registration granted under the preceding sub-section shall include besides the person himself, his wife, if any unless his marriage with has been dissolved and any minor child or his dependent whether wholly or partially upon him.

Required Information

• Full Name
• Fathers Name
• Address in Pakistan
• Address in the Country outside Pakistan
• Place /Tehsil /District
• Place of domicile
• Prov/Admn/West Pakistan
• Date of Arrival in the place of domicile
• Married/Single/Widow/Widower
• Name of wife or husband
• Name
• Age
• Name of children and their ages
• Trade or Occupation
• Marks of Identification
• Date

Need for the Document

The domicile certificate was introduced after the prime ministers of India and Pakistan, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan, signed the Liaquat-Nehru pact in 1950.
It promised to protect minorities and improve relationships between the majority and minorities in their countries.
It paved the way for the essential process of verifying who was a citizen of India and Pakistan, because there was intense cross-border migration in the years that followed Partition.
After the Liaquat-Nehru pact was signed, Pakistan began to seal borders and in 1951, it introduced the Citizenship Act that required citizens to claim and verify their citizenship by obtaining a domicile certificate.

Information which might help

Any person who, at any time before the sixteenth day of December 1971, was a citizen of Pakistan domiciled in the territories which before the said day constituted the province of East Pakistan and who being under the protection of Pakistan passport, was on that day, or is, residing in any country beyond those territories shall not be deemed to be a citizen of Pakistan unless, upon an application made by him to the Federal Government in this behalf the Federal Government has granted him a certificate that at the date of the certificate he is a citizen of Pakistan.

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

Domicile forms are required at all public educational institutions in Sindh.

External Links

http://www.dgip.gov.pk

Offices

Others

Offices are closed on Saturday.

A certificate of domicile obtained from the website of the police in the city of Jhelum in Punjab Province indicates that the certificate includes the above information, as well as the individual's photograph placed in the lower right corner of the certificate.