Question NW3160 to the Minister of Home Affairs
07 September 2015 - NW3160
Figlan, Mr AM to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
With regard to his department’s modernisation road map which indicates that the processes of the registration of marriages, issuing of death certificates and application for citizenship will be automated by mid-2015, what measures has his department put in place in respect of (a) infrastructure and (b) policies to meet this target?
Reply:
(a-b) According to the Departmental Strategic Plan 2015–2020 the department has targeted to automate the registration of marriages, divorces, deaths and citizenship business processes by the end of the 2017/2018 financial year. Currently it has only committed to continue with automation of the ID smart card and passport system through live capture in the 2015/2016 financial year. At an appropriate time the department will make further announcement on the modernisation project.