Abu Dhabi: From Apr onwards, residents inwards Dubai must register for an Emirates ID carte du jour straight off afterwards applying for a residence visa, a senior official at the Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) confirmed on Tuesday.
This follows the linking of 6 major Preventive Medicine Centres (PMCs) inwards Dubai amongst the ID carte du jour registration process, Dr Ali Al Khouri, manager full general at the Eida told.
"Visa applications are already linked to ID carte du jour registration inwards all other emirates. In Dubai, this linkage took a piece equally nosotros wanted to ensure that the country's largest PMC, which is also opened upwards 24 hours in addition to processes nearly 3,000 visas on a daily basis, could handgrip the load," Dr Al Khouri said.
The rollout of the organization inwards Dubai completes a countrywide scheme that links the Population Register in addition to National ID Card (PRIDC) in addition to visa applications. The linkage is already inwards house inwards all the other emirates.
With this integration, an expatriate who goes for medical exam at ane of the PMCs for visa purposes tin so become straight to an Emirates ID centre annexed to the PMC to consummate the registration procedure.
The novel ID carte du jour volition last issued past times Eida alone upon the issuance of a residency visa past times the relevant entity, explained an Eida official.
The deadline for Abu Dhabi residents over the historic menses of xv years to apply for an ID carte du jour is laid for the cease of March; for Dubai residents, the deadline is end-May.
Once these deadlines lapse, "delay fees" volition last charged to applicants, the official said.
Fee range
"The fees make from Dh20 to Dh25 per day, amongst a maximum fee of Dh 1,000 for delayed registration. On our website, nosotros convey already seat inwards house a counter to remind Abu Dhabi residents almost the deadline, in addition to volition update the counter for Dubai residents ane time the Abu Dhabi deadline lapses," Dr Al Khouri said.
As such, an Abu Dhabi resident over the historic menses of xv who has a valid residence visa simply has no national ID carte du jour or possesses an expired one, has until March 31 to apply for the carte du jour without existence charged "delay fees", piece for a Dubai resident, the deadline is May 31.
The official also reminded employers non to hold off for the concluding infinitesimal equally nearly xc per cent of residents who convey non yet applied for ID cards are blue-collar workers.
"Employers must thence ensure that their workers apply for the cards earlier the deadlines," he said.
Nearly 6.2 meg — or 77.5 per cent of almost 8 meg inhabitants across the province — convey already registered for Emirates ID cards, in addition to almost 30,000 applications are nevertheless existence filled out every working twenty-four sixty minutes menses at over 1,200 typing centres across the country.
"The yr 2012 volition decease along to last a challenging yr for Eida, amongst nearly 4 to 6 meg novel applications in addition to ID carte du jour renewals expected to last processed over the year," the official said.
He added that Eida functioning volumes would accomplish "normal" levels of ii to iii meg applications in addition to renewals over a menses of ane yr alone inwards 2013.
New application system
- A novel version of the Eida online application organization that allows residents to apply for or renew their ID cards without visiting typing centres is currently inwards the works, Dr Ali Al Khouri said.
- "While the electrical flow organization has seen quite a few applicants, a novel faster organization volition last introduced inside the adjacent ii months," he said.
- "We convey compiled user feedback on the electrical flow system, in addition to the novel version will, therefore, render greater speed in addition to user-friendliness for those who desire to consummate ID carte du jour registrations on their own," Dr Al Khoury added.
- Dh1000: maximum ‘delay fee' for belatedly registration
- May 31: registration deadline for Dubai residents
- 6.2m: UAE residents convey already registered
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