ID card registration deadline of Dubai residents is one month away

The Emirates Identity Authority has called on Dubai residents to register in the ID card and renew their expired cards before the end of this month.

The Emirates Identity Authority emphasized that filling out the e-form at one of the typing centers or through its website would help in avoiding the delay fees, which will be applicable across the emirate from June 1^st.

The Emirates ID stressed the necessity for customers to adhere to the given dates for visiting its centers to complete registration procedures (fingerprinting and photographing) as shown in the registration form or the SMS sent to customers after filling out their forms. It called on the new expatriates who have no residence yet to fill out the registration form at a typing center and then visit a registration center attached to a preventive medicine center immediately after conducting the medical examination.

The Emirates ID called on the owners of residence visas which would expire before December 31^st, 2012 in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah to register by the time of renewal of their residence visas.

As far as national and resident children below 15 years are concerned, the Emirates Identity Authority underlined the necessity for this category all over the UAE to register before October 1, 2012.

The Emirates Identity Authority clarified that the expiry of the deadline given to the owners of residence visas issued in Dubai came in the framework of a timeline announced in September 2011 for completing the registration of all UAE population.

In this framework, the Emirates Identity Authority announced the launch of a comprehensive media and advertising campaign across the Emirate of Dubai with the aim of urging customers to register in the population register and ID card system and renew their expired cards before the end of May to avoid the delay fees.

The campaign includes publishing advertisements in all printing and audible mass media, social networking sites and the Emirates ID’s website. The campaign also targets the users of Dubai Metro and a number of public transport buses in the emirate. It also includes the distribution of around 1 million copies of two brochures in 9 languages; one titled “Register Now.. Don’t wait until the last minute” and the other titled “Do not Get Confused”. The brochures target the customers and visitors of most federal and local government facilities in the emirate and the Emirates Identity Authority-affiliated registration centers.

In the same context, the Emirates Identity Authority started forwarding awareness messages to the resident of the emirates through the social networking sites of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in co-operation with the government and private organizations and legal persons in the UAE as part of a plan to reach the largest base of customers of over 4 million people.

The Emirates Identity Authority pointed out that the population register and ID card system is a strategic national project aimed at enhancing national and individual security, keeping an accurate population register that supports decision-making and providing innovative government electronic services.

As many as 9 registration centers are affiliated to the Emirates Identity Authority in the Emirate of Dubai in addition to 6 others attached to the preventive medicine centers and run by EIMAS for Electronic Management and Security Solutions. The Emirates ID affiliated centers are Al Barsha, Al Rashidiya, Al Karama, Naturalization and Residency, Emirates Post, Dubai International Financial Center, Dafza, Emirates Airlines and Ruler’s Court. Those attached to the preventive medicine centers are Al Muhaisna, Al Baraha, Knowledge Village, Al Satwa, Jafza and Al Quoz Mall.