National Card - The Iraqi Interior Ministry will stop working on old documents starting next March - 12/28/2023

ronscarpa · December 28, 2023

The Iraqi Interior Ministry will stop working on old documents starting next March

2023-12-28 // 03:24

Shafaq News / The Iraqi Ministry of Interior decided, on Wednesday, to stop using old documents starting next March, stressing the adoption of the “national card” as the only official document within the country.

Yesterday, Wednesday, the Iraqi Minister of Interior, Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, said that the ministry had set 3/1/2024 as the date for approving the national card, the only official document, and directed the concerned departments to prepare for the large numbers expected to come to obtain this card.

The Iraqi government launched the national card project in 2015 to be an alternative to the old documents that were approved by the previous regime, which are: civil status identity, citizenship certificate, housing card, and ration card.

The project aims to prepare a central database for all Iraqis, and issue unified national cards for them to be used in promoting transactions in official institutions and state departments.

The project witnessed delays at times, represented by stopping the printing and issuing of the card due to technical problems and the lack of provision of raw materials due to the delay in paying the financial dues to the company contracting with the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. However, these problems have recently been overcome, and work is proceeding smoothly in the civil status departments, according to their officials.