New Form: 10 easy steps for Emirates ID

Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) launched its new e-form after successful trial over 40 days that saw completion of more than 40,000 applications.

The authority assured that its new e-form allows the applicants to fill in the application for a new ID card easily and conveniently through 10 simple steps that takes between 10 to 15 minutes.

Filling the form through its website obviates visiting the typing offices, therefore, saving the customer Dh30 as typing fees. The authority expects that the new form will save more than Dh120 million annually for companies and individuals.

Dr. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Director General of Emirates Identity Authority said that the new application form is characterized with "innovative features and high dynamics, and is a role model in terms of both form and content, and in simplicity and clarity".

Dr Khouri added that Eida is keen on developing it in a way that would allow using it by all levels of society, easily and conveniently.

He also pointed that the new form can be filled in both Arabic and English, and it allows the individuals the services of first time registration in the ID card, the renewal of expired ID card and replacement of lost or damaged cards.

The authority has started circulating the e-form as an initial stage over “Tasheel” offices, and a number of typing offices in the Northern Emirates providing high levels of localization, under specific terms and conditions, on top of which is the level of service quality, while the form will be circulated across the country during the second half of this year.

The authority noted that the application form on its website is for individual use, warning typing offices from using this form without obtaining official permission from the authority, in order to avoid accountability and cancelation of the form.

Eida is currently working on the terms and mechanisms of making the form available for companies to obviate them from going to typing offices, the first term of which is that the data entry should be done by a UAE citizen.

The collection of fees will also be done via the website through credit cards, after the customer completes creating an electronic account via simple steps, which would generate a username and a secret number. 

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