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The Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) has called on the parents of UAE national and resident male and female students to register their children under 15 years in the ID card before October 1, 2012, in line with the Cabinet's decision no. 25 for 2011, and in a bid to avoid delay fees.
The EIDA thanked the Ministry of Education, Abu Dhabi Education Council and Knowledge and Human Development Authority, as well as all educational districts and government and private schools across the UAE for their ongoing co-operation and support of the EIDA towards achieving its national mission and serving the top interest of the UAE and the vision of its prudent leadership for developing the population register system and the ID card project.
The Ministry of Education, Abu Dhabi Education Council and Knowledge and Human Development Authority previously interacted with the Emirates ID's call to forward circulars to the UAE government and private schools with reminders of children registration deadline attached to their academic certificates in which the children registration procedures as well as the required documents are shown in both Arabic and English.
The EIDA reminded the people concerned that the procedures for issuing an ID card for a child require the dedicated e-form to be filled out at a typing center without the need for the child's presence, noting that the required documents for registering UAE national children are an original passport, an original summary of civil status, father's or mother's ID card and a personal photo of the child with a white background, while the registration of resident children requires an original and individual valid passport, residence visa, father's or mother's ID card and a personal photo with a white background.
The EIDA pointed out that in case of applying for an ID card for a child who had previously been registered in the population register, an ID number certificate should be presented with the other required official documents, noting that this certificate can be obtained by visiting any EIDA-affiliated registration centres.
However, in case of applying for renewing the child's expired card, the old ID card should be presented, while a person who has completed 15 years of age and seeks to renew his/her ID card should visit a registration centre for fingerprinting and photographing.
The EIDA has recently announced that the resident children under 15 years across the UAE, whose residences expire before December 31, 2012, are excluded from the children's registration deadline, provided that registration of this category should be made by the time of their residence renewal procedures before the end of this year.
The EIDA called on the parents of UAE national and resident children across the UAE to register their children under 15 years in the ID card before October 1, 2012 and not to wait until the last minute.
It affirmed that the UAE population registration deadline decision was aimed at speeding up the completion of the population register system and the ID card project towards achieving its mission as embodied in contributing to enhancing the national and individual security, supporting decision-makers and providing innovative electronic services that support the eGovernment and the UAE Vision 2021.
The EIDA pointed out that the decision to exclude children with expired residences in 2012 from the registration deadline set for children is not inconsistent with the decision to adopt the ID card as a condition for benefiting from the services of both the public and private sectors for all age categories, now that the ID card is gradually becoming the most valuable official card in the UAE.
It announced last January that residents above 15 years whose residences would expire before December 31, 2012 in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah would be excluded from the ID card registration deadline so that this category would be registered by the time of residence renewal procedures.
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