Article 3 clearly states: Officially change the name of Citizen Identification Card to Identity Card. Article 46 stipulates the validity of Citizen Identification Cards and Identity Cards that have been issued. Accordingly, Citizen Identification Cards issued before July 1, 2024 are still valid until the expiration date stated on the card. For Citizen Identification Cards and Identity Cards that expire from January 15, 2024 to before June 30, 2024, they continue to be valid until June 30, 2024.
Legal documents issued using information from the National Identity Card and Citizen Identification Card will remain valid. Article 46 also clearly states that the National Identity Card will expire on January 1, 2025. If the National Identity Card is still valid, it will be valid until December 31, 2024.
In Article 18, the Law on Identification stipulates that information on hometown, fingerprints, permanent residence, and identification characteristics will be removed and replaced with information on place of birth registration and place of residence. The Law on Identification expands the subjects eligible for ID cards as stipulated in Articles 18 and 19.
Accordingly, Vietnamese citizens under 14 years old are issued ID cards upon request. Vietnamese citizens with a place of residence (permanent residence, temporary residence, current residence) are collected and updated in the national population database (the new ID card replaces permanent residence information with place of residence information).
Regarding the issuance of ID cards for people under 6 years old, Article 23 stipulates that legal representatives carry out procedures for issuing ID cards for people under 6 years old through the public service portal or national identification application. For this subject, no identification and biometric information is collected.
Article 3 and Article 30 supplement the provisions on granting Identity Cards to people of Vietnamese origin whose nationality is undetermined. Accordingly, an Identity Card is a personal document containing information about the identity of people of Vietnamese origin whose nationality is undetermined and who have been living in Vietnam for 6 months or more. This document is valid for conducting transactions and exercising legal rights and interests in the territory of Vietnam.
In addition, the Law on Identification supplements the provisions on the issuance of electronic identification cards in Articles 31 and 33. Each Vietnamese citizen is issued an electronic identification card. The electronic identification card is created by the identification management agency of the Ministry of Public Security immediately after the citizen completes the procedure for issuing a level 2 electronic identification account (VNeID). The electronic identification card is used in handling administrative procedures, public services, transactions and other activities according to the needs of the citizen.
Regarding the additional provisions on biometric information collection in Article 16 and Article 23, it is clearly stated: The collection of iris biometric information for citizens aged six years and older will be voluntarily provided by the people when coming to the police agency to carry out procedures for issuing ID cards.
The last new point is the addition of regulations on integrating information into the ID card in Article 22. The information that will be integrated into the ID card includes: health insurance card information, social insurance book, driver's license, birth certificate, marriage certificate or other documents decided by the Prime Minister. People request to integrate information into the ID card when needed or when issuing the ID card.
The use of information integrated into the identity card has the same value as providing information or using documents containing that information in performing administrative procedures, public services, transactions and other activities.
Up to now, the Ministry of Public Security is preparing the necessary conditions to implement the Law. At the press conference to inform about the situation and results of public security work in the first quarter of 2024 held at the end of March, Major General Pham Cong Nguyen, Director of the Department of Legislation and Administrative and Judicial Reform (Ministry of Public Security) emphasized: Regarding the issuance of ID cards for citizens under six years old and under 14 years old and the collection of iris and DNA data to update the ID database, the Department of Administrative Police for Social Order (C06), Ministry of Public Security has coordinated with other agencies to implement when the Law comes into effect.
For those who are due to change their Citizen Identification Card to an Identification Card, the Ministry of Public Security will issue an Identification Card in accordance with the Law on Identification; for children under six years old and children from six to 14 years old, and people of Vietnamese origin who do not have Vietnamese nationality but reside permanently and stably in Vietnam, an Identification Certificate will be issued.
To implement the Law on Identification, C06 has coordinated with relevant units to complete the legal basis, including the development of decrees, circulars, and ID card models.
Major General Pham Cong Nguyen also added: When people come to apply for new or replacement ID cards according to the new law, the authorities will collect biometric information related to photos, faces, fingerprints and irises. For DNA and voice, the police will collect it through the data of the management agency. For example: The prosecution agency conducts procedural measures related to DNA and voice identification. The administrative handling agency for related subjects will collect it through the process of coming to work.
In case a citizen needs to agree to obtain biometric information results, the competent authority will conduct a DNA test to include the citizen's information in the ID card. For citizens who are using the Citizen Identification Card, they will continue to use it until it expires, at which time they will be changed to a new model. Citizens who need to change to an Identification Card will be changed according to their needs.
Previously, at the meeting to review and evaluate tasks to ensure conditions for implementing the Law on Identification, General To Lam, Minister of Public Security, requested units to proactively follow and ensure the progress of implementing the contents of Decision No. 175/QD-TTg dated February 14, 2024 of the Prime Minister on promulgating the Plan to implement the Law on Identification and Decision No. 990/QD-BCA dated February 21, 2024 of the Minister of Public Security on promulgating the Plan to implement the Law on Identification in the People's Public Security; completing the development of the model of identification cards and identification certificates; Decision of the Minister on approving the technical standards of electronic chips and integrating and storing information in electronic chips; technical design documents, security documents, anti-counterfeiting of identification cards and identification certificates.
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