250,000 kids registered in 33 days: Eida

The Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) received more than 250,000 applications for issuing ID cards for children under 15 years in the last 33 days of the registration deadline of national and resident children in the UAE, which expired on October 3.

Eida said it received more than 120,000 applications for issuing ID cards for national and resident children under 15 years in the last 10 days of the deadline, which expired on September 30 but was extended for 72 hours, during which it received more than 52,320 applications.

Eida said in September, the last month of the one-year children registration deadline, it received applications equal to three times the applications received during August and July for issuing ID cards for children under 15 years.

Eida announced the expiry of all registration deadlines with the exception of the individuals whose residence visas were issued in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah and would expire before December 31, 2012, and the resident children under 15 years in the UAE whose residence visas would expire before the year-end. These two categories should register in the ID card by the time of renewal of their residence visas.

Eida said the registration and renewal process went smoothly at all typing centres across the UAE for a full year, without denying the relative slowdown on the last day of the deadline at the level of the payment gateway Noqodi of Emaratech, which runs the registration e-form, due to the large numbers of last-minute applicants for registration.

As a result, Eida announced a 72-hour extension in response to demands from parents who could not register their children within the deadline announced in September 2011.

Eida said its decision to extend the registration of children for three days helped the parents of more than 52,320 children avoid delay fees.
 

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