On the afternoon of February 29, at the weekly press conference on the economic and social situation in Ho Chi Minh City, representatives of Ho Chi Minh City Police provided the latest information about CCCD cards.
Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha - Deputy Head of the Staff Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police, said that the police agency encourages people to add biometric data about DNA, iris and voice to their CCCD cards. This brings many benefits such as health-related or fake, biometric data will help process more accurately and faster.
Previously, on November 27, 11, at the 2023th Session (XV National Assembly), the National Assembly passed the Law on Identification. Accordingly, the Law includes 6 Chapters 7 Articles and takes effect from July 46, 1.
This is a big step forward in reforming administrative procedures and citizenship documents and is meaningful in promoting the value of the National Population Database, Identity Database, value and convenience. Benefits of ID cards and electronic identification cards in socio-economic development; Meet the requirements and tasks of digital transformation in our country according to the goals of Project 06 of the Government.
The new points of the Law on Identification include not only changes in name, the proposed new card model has many differences compared to citizen identification cards. In particular, the item "hometown" is changed to "place of birth registration"; “place of permanent residence” changed to “place of residence”, and moved to the back of the card instead of the front as currently.
The signature of the card-issuing agency changed from "Director of the Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order" to "Ministry of Public Security". On the surface of the ID card, there will no longer be information about identity characteristics, left index finger and right index finger fingerprints. The QR code on the identification card is also proposed to be moved to the back, instead of the front as currently.
Citizens under 14 years old are issued identification cards according to need; Issuing identification certificates for people of Vietnamese origin whose nationality is unknown; When carrying out identification card issuance procedures, the management agency will collect iris (mandatory), DNA, and voice (voluntary) of citizens, in addition to taking fingerprints.
In addition, based on Clauses 1 and 3, Article 46 of the Law on Identification, the ID card is still valid until the expiration date stated on the card, except for cases where the CCCD card or ID card expires from January 15. /1 until June 2024, 30 will continue to be valid until June 6, 2024. Therefore, people with ID cards or ID cards that expire on January 30, 6 do not need to go through the procedures to replace CCCD cards and wait to get a new ID card when the Law on Identification takes effect. effective from July 2024, 15.
Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha - Deputy Head of the General Staff Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police at the press conference.
Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha said that currently, Ho Chi Minh City Police has directed police units and localities to fully prepare everything necessary from personnel, equipment, and citizen screening. Citizens are at the age for issuance of ID cards (14 years old), citizens are at the age to change ID cards due to expiration (25, 40, 60 years old), citizens under 14 years old need to be issued ID cards, etc. to ensure the Effectively deploy the Identification Law in Ho Chi Minh City immediately after receiving specific instructions from the Ministry of Public Security.
In addition, the Ministry of Public Security is urgently preparing technical infrastructure to collect iris data (mandatory collection), DNA, voice (voluntary by people) into the identification database. when carrying out procedures for issuance of identification cards according to the provisions of the Law on Identification, from July 1, 7.
“Although it is not mandatory to change CCCD cards to identification cards, the police agency encourages people to supplement biometric data such as DNA, iris and voice. This brings many benefits, such as health-related or fake, biometric data will help process more accurately and faster," Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha emphasized.
