According to the draft Law on Identification, information about hometown is integrated into the National Population Database and is not shown on the citizen identification card.
Article 18 of the draft Law on Identification submitted to the National Assembly for comments on the morning of October 25 outlines the information fields shown on the identification card. These include facial photo; personal identification number; surname, middle name and given name; date of birth; gender; place of birth registration; nationality; place of residence; card issue date and expiry date.
Thus, compared to the 2014 Citizen Identification Law, the fields for information about hometown and fingerprints have been removed from the content that needs to be shown on the ID card. Instead, the citizen's hometown will be integrated into the National Population Database.
Chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi. Photo: National Assembly Media
Chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi said that the change of information shown on the ID card was specifically assessed during the process of drafting the Law, ensuring no duplication between information fields and unifying the type of popular identification documents today.
The draft Law removes fingerprints from the card surface to ensure security during card use; removes "hometown" information to ensure privacy, limit the need to issue new cards and problems in verifying information.
Information on citizens' identity cards will basically be stored, exploited, and used through electronic chips on the identity cards; integrating both QR codes and electronic chips on the identity cards will facilitate the implementation of administrative procedures and civil transactions.
Delegate Dinh Thi Ngoc Dung (Hai Duong Delegation). Photo: National Assembly Media
Delegate Dinh Thi Ngoc Dung (an employee of the Hai Duong Province Drug Rehabilitation Center) agreed with this content. According to the female delegate, removing fingerprint information and hometown will ensure privacy for people. Adjusting the permanent residence information printed on the Citizen Identification Card to the place of residence is suitable for reality because many people only have temporary residence, not permanent residence.
"With this regulation, all Vietnamese people are eligible to be granted an ID card and have personal documents to carry out administrative procedures and civil transactions," she said.
However, Vice Chairman of the Law Committee Nguyen Phuong Thuy is concerned that in administrative units that are being or will be reorganized, when citizens make ID cards, they will continue to have to correct information on the card due to the change in the name of the administrative unit.
According to her, not showing information about the place of residence on the ID card will help people avoid having to renew the card. According to current law, in case the address of residence changes (boundaries, name of administrative unit, name of street, village, hamlet, etc.), the residence registration agency is responsible for adjusting the residence database and updating it with the national population database. Therefore, information about the place of residence can be accessed via QR code and electronic identification VneID.
"Removing the residence information will avoid the situation where the information on the ID card and the national database are different," she said.
The draft Law on Identification (amended) will be voted on and approved by the National Assembly on November 27.
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