Dubai residents has 30 more days to retgister for ID

The Emirates Identity Authority, (EIDA) 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 centres or through its website would help in avoiding the delay fees, which will be applicable across the emirate from June 1^st.

People wait outside the Emirates Identity Authority centre at the Karama Central Post Office on Tuesday.— KT photo by Rahul Gajjar

The Emirates ID stressed the necessity for customers to adhere to the given dates for visiting its centres 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 centre and then visit a registration centre attached to a preventive medicine centre 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