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===Offices to Contact=== | ===Offices to Contact=== | ||
The Directorate of Civil Affairs in the Ministry of Interior in | The Directorate of Civil Affairs in the Ministry of Interior in Syria is the authority in charge of the registration of birth, death, marriage, divorce and the correction of records, in addition to issuing ID cards and family booklets for Syrian nationals. As for non-Syrians on the Syrian Arab Republic territories, the Directorate is responsible for registering | ||
Syria is the authority in charge of the registration of birth, | their civil status incidents and the provision of all related documents required to complete the registration procedures at their respective embassies. | ||
death, marriage, divorce and the correction of records, in | |||
addition to issuing ID cards and family booklets for Syrian | |||
nationals. As for non-Syrians on the Syrian Arab Republic | |||
territories, the Directorate is responsible for registering | |||
their civil status incidents and the provision of all related | |||
documents required to complete the registration procedures at their respective embassies. | |||
[civilaffair-moi.gov.sy The General Directorate for Civil Affairs website] | [civilaffair-moi.gov.sy The General Directorate for Civil Affairs website] | ||
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submitted to the civil registry office where the deceased’s records are kept, for the death to be recorded, and the death certificate will be provided to the applicant, after being duly signed and stamped by the civil registrar. | Death record is submitted to the civil registry office where the deceased’s records are kept, for the death to be recorded, and the death certificate will be provided to the applicant, after being duly signed and stamped by the civil registrar. | ||
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registered. | registered. | ||
A person incurs in an accident and subsequently dies in hospital, how will | A person incurs in an accident and subsequently dies in hospital, how will such a death be registered? | ||
such a death be registered? | the civil registry where the accident occurred in order to register the death and issue the death certificate. | ||
Registration of deaths of Syrians outside of Syria | Registration of deaths of Syrians outside of Syria | ||
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Registration of deaths of non-Syrians inside Syria | Registration of deaths of non-Syrians inside Syria | ||
The death of a foreign national in Syria is registered in the so-called ‘record of deaths’ as maintained by the civil registry department at the place where the death occurred. On the basis of a death attestation issued by the hospital where the death took place, or, where the death took place outside a hospital, from the mukhtar, accompanied by a medical report, the civil registrar will send a copy of the individual’s death certificate to the Department of Immigration and Passports in Damascus - Ministry of Interior -or its branches in the governorates. Upon request, a concerned person (e.g. family member, spouse, etc.) will be provided with a copy of the death certificate. | |||
The death of a foreign national in Syria is registered in the so-called ‘record of deaths’ | |||
as maintained by the civil registry department at the place where the death occurred. | |||
On the basis of a death attestation issued by the hospital where the death took place, | |||
or, where the death took place outside a hospital, from the mukhtar, accompanied by a | |||
medical report, the civil registrar will send a copy of the individual’s death certificate to | |||
the Department of Immigration and Passports in Damascus - Ministry of Interior -or its | |||
branches in the governorates. Upon request, a concerned person (e.g. family member, spouse, etc.) will be provided with a copy of the death certificate. | |||
==Historical Background== | ==Historical Background== | ||