Emirates ID to open Muhaisna Center in Dubai by middle of this month

The Emirates Identity Authority has announced its intention to experimentally open a new registration center near the medical fitness (preventive medicine) center located in the Muhaisna area in Dubai by the middle of March. The center, which will be open round the clock, will accommodate up to 3,000 people per day.

The Emirates Identity Authority clarified that with the opening of the Muhaisna Center in Dubai, which is regarded as the largest registration center attached to preventive medicine across the UAE, 29 registration centers attached to preventive medicine would be fully operational as part of the project of linking residence issuance procedures with those of registration in the population register and ID card system.

The opening of the new Muhaisna center would raise the total daily capacity of registration in the population register and ID card in Dubai to more than 13,500 people through 6 registration centers attached to medical fitness centers, these being Al Baraha, Knowledge Village, Al Satwa, Al Quoz, Jebel Ali Free Zone and Muhaisna, the Emirates Identity Authority said, adding that the capacity of the 6 centers is over 6,000 people per day. In addition, there are three permanent registration centers, Al Barsha, Al Rashidiya, Al Karama, which have a registration capacity of over 7,500 people per day, the Emirates Identity Authority added.

The Emirates Identity Authority called on Abu Dhabi and Dubai residents to register in the ID card as soon as possible, to renew their expired cards and not to wait until the last minute of the announced deadlines, particularly that the registration deadline for Abu Dhabi would be on April 1 and for Dubai on June 1.

The Emirates Identity Authority affirmed that filling out the registration form at the typing center or through its website would help the applicant avoid the resolved delay fees, provided that the registration procedures of fingerprinting and photographing would be completed.

Meanwhile, the Emirates Identity Authority valued the efforts of the Ministry of Interior, as represented by the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs – Dubai, Ministry of Health and Dubai Health Authority for completing the project of linking the ID card registration procedures with the residence issuance and preventive medicine procedures in Dubai.

Under the procedures of linking the ID card and residence procedures across the UAE, an applicant is required to fill out an e-form at an authorized typing center or through the Emirates Identity Authority’s website before conducting a medical examination at a preventive medicine centre as per the place of residence. Subsequently, the applicant would head directly for one of the ID card registration centers attached to preventive medicine centers in order to complete the registration procedures (fingerprinting and photographing) without the need for a prior appointment, noting that an ID card would be delivered to its owner only after his/her own residence has been issued by the competent authorities.

Filling out the form at a typing center would require the original valid passport to be present together with a document showing the unified number (old residence or entry visa), while the original passport and ID card registration form are required when visiting a registration center.