Press release on issuing Identity Card for National
Verification (NVC) and collecting three categories in Rakhine
December 28, 2016
Process of collecting three categories
Those who still hold temporary identity certificates issued
under the provisions of the 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law are required to return
back their temporary certificates as they expired on May 31 2015, according to
notification 19/2015 dated February 11, 2015 issued by the President.
According to this notification, out of the 759,672 temporary
certificates disbursed, only 469,183 have been handed over. It is learnt that
the people who failed to hand over the temporary certificates take account of
those who received other kinds of identity cards, those who have their cards,
those whose cards were ruined, those who died and those who failed to surrender
the documents because they lived outside the region.
With effect from June 1, 2015, instead of those temporary
certificates, the distribution of an Identity Card for National Verification
was carried out in three categories. The main objective of distributing those
cards was to scrutinize them as to whether they were entitled to become a
citizen in accord with the provisions of the 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law, and
to acknowledge them as residents in Myanmar.
Since 1st June, 2015, the issuing of Identity Card for
National Verification (ICNV) had undertaken by the three categories such as
mapping, posting buildings on the map and checking of number of people. As of
December 23, 2016 out of 469,183 who surrendered the temporary certificates,
32,016 were given the Identity Card for National Verification. Out of 397,497
who surrendered the temporary certificates in Rakhine State only, 6077 were
given an ICNV, and the process of collecting three categories has been
conducting continuously.
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(State Counsellor Office Information Committee)
