The Zimbabwean passport is issued to citizens of
Zimbabwe primarily for international travel. It can also be used for identification in lieu of national registration card or drivers licence. It is the primary proof for citizenship which can be verified through the Registrar General's office in the
Ministry of Home Affairs
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On 15 December 2021, the Zimbabwean government launched the new
e-passport in order to meet modern international standards.
Country Code Errors
The country code in some Zimbabwean passports were not printed in accordance with the
ISO code for
Zimbabwe. The country code in these passports is listed as ZIM when it should otherwise be ZWE; this has led to frustrating encounters for Zimbabweans with airline, immigration, and border control officials. This error has often led to officials suspecting such passports to be fake. When the passport's
MRZ
A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s.
Mos ...
is scanned, the immigration and checking systems fail to recognise the country code ZIM. Airlines have issued circulars to their staff and published information on their websites highlighting this issue.
Visa requirements
, Zimbabwean citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 59 countries and territories, ranking the Zimbabwean passport 77th in terms of travel freedom (tied Ghanaian passport) according to the
Henley visa restrictions index.
See also
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Rhodesian passport
Rhodesian passports were passports issued by the government of Rhodesia to its citizens for purposes of international travel. They are no longer issued, having been superseded by Zimbabwean passports in 1980, with the country's reconstitution ...
(used before 1980)
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Visa requirements for Zimbabwean citizens
Visa requirements for Zimbabwean citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Zimbabwe. , Zimbabwean citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 64 countries and territories, rankin ...
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Visa policy of Zimbabwe
Visitors to Zimbabwe must obtain a visa from one of the Zimbabwean diplomatic missions or online unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries or are eligible for visa on arrival. As of November 2014 Zimbabwe and Zambia also offer a un ...
References
Foreign relations of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Government of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth of Nations
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