The Ministry of Home Affairs under the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics department has unchanged its operations and methodologies in registering of citizens and immigrants born and living in the Kingdom of ESwatini.
This includes registering of proceedings such as birth, death, stillbirth, marriage and civil partnership is a legal requirement. These registrations are an integral part of identity documentation, providing a certificate to support further personal applications, for example, for passports and other related registration activities. The headquarters of the civil registration centres in the Kingdom is working directly with its regional substations which are a successful story of the government’s decentralization drive.
Regional Civil Registrars found in all the substations liaise frequently with the office of the National Civil Registrar on the operations of the regional level. The Ministry of Home Affairs through Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Department is proud to provide guidance on all related registration matters, including change of surname, alterations, and external registrations, divorce nullifications, marriage clearance and registrations, birth and death registrations, identity card applications to their Majesties, the public, Registrars, authorized persons, local authorities, Ministers, Members of Parliament and government officials.
CIVIL REGISTRATION BUSINESS PROCESS AND TURN AROUND TIME
ACTIVITY | TURN AROUND TIME |
a. Assignment of a PIN | Over the counter |
b. Searching of a PIN | Over the counter |
c. ID Enrolment and Issuance | two days |
d. Current registration of Birth or Deaths within two months | One day |
e. Application for late registration of Birth or Deaths above two months | three weeks minimum |
f. Application of alterations on certificate | Three weeks minimum |
g. Marital status alteration (Divorce or Nullification) | One day |
h. Authority to get married in Eswatini | Three weeks minimum |
i. Clearance to get married outside Eswatini | One day minimum |
CIVIL REGISTRATION MANAGEMENT
CIVIL REGISTRATION | NAME & CONTACT DETAILS |
NationaL Civil Registrar : Deputy Nationa Civil Registrar: Assistant Nationa Civil Registrar (Manzini/Shiselweni): Assistant Nationa Civil Registrar: (Hhohho/Lubombo) |
Nompumelelo Sibeko +268 2404 9925 Primrose P Dlamini +268 76063930 Patricia K Shabangu +268 24042941 ext 7402 Theresa Ntuli +268 24042941 ext 7380 |
DISTRICT REGISTRAR DEPARTMENT | NAME & CONTACT DETAILS |
Regional Civil Registrar (Head Quarters) Regional Civil Registrar (Hhohho) Regional Civil Registrar (Manzini) Regional Civil Registrar (Shiselweni) Regional Civil Registrar (Lubombo) |
Andile Dlamini +268 2402941 ext 7373 Ncamsile Maseko +268 24044443 Ntombethile Nxumalo +268 25059598 Lencama Dlamini +268 22078235 Almah Z Gamedze +268 23434552 |