The exercise to verify personal information and take photographs for the issuance of Digital IDs has started. All residents, from newborn babies onwards, are being registered and photographed.

DIGITAL ID REGISTRATION AND PHOTO-TAKING FOR CHILDREN

The exercise to verify personal information and take photographs for the issuance of Digital IDs has started. All residents, from newborn babies onwards, are being registered and photographed.

Some parents have questions about the requirements for registering and photographing their children so that they can obtain a Digital ID.

When a parent comes to verify their child’s civil registration information, they should bring the child’s civil registration/application number and the ID numbers of both parents. A child under the age of 16 must be accompanied by one of their parents. If the child is accompanied by someone who is not their parent, the accompanying person must bring a legally recognized document proving their legal guardianship of the child.

If a child has not yet been registered in the civil registration system, the parent must first register the child with the civil registrar at the sector level. The child will then be issued a civil registration number, after which the parent can bring the child to the registration site to verify their information and have their photograph taken.

A child born to parents who are not legally married is initially registered under the mother’s name only. The father can subsequently acknowledge the child before the civil registrar, after which he can be officially registered as the child’s father.

However, if the father has never acknowledged or identified the child, this does not prevent the mother from bringing the child to have their information verified and photograph taken, as every child has the right to a Digital ID.

Every child, from birth, must be registered. A child born at a health facility is registered there, while a child born at home is registered at the cell (Akagari). The parent is then provided with the child’s civil registration number and can bring the child to the designated site to have their information verified and photograph taken.