Description

The purpose of the SOP is to guide the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (CRVS) which  collects and uses information essential for tracking individual births, profiling mortality and causes of death, and monitoring the dynamics of key demographic indicators.

Page 15 states that any civil status document of a Rwandan or a foreigner drawn up in a foreign country and established in the forms followed in that country is authentic in Rwanda unless there is obvious doubt. Any legal document emanating from a foreign country or in the event of doubt as to the authenticity of a document emanating from a foreign country, the document is examined by the court according to the exequatur procedure before being transcribed into the Rwandan system for its validity on national territory. The declaration with a view to the transcription of a civil status record in Rwanda must be certified as true to the original by the diplomatic mission or consular post from which it emanates.