ID card issuance to the under-14-year-olds ensures kids' legitimate rights

Recently, many parents have come to Khanh Hoa Provincial Public Security Office for Administrative Management of Social Order for ID card issuance to their under-14-year-old kids. 

After only the first 8 days of July, more than 560 applications for ID cards for the under-14-year-olds were submitted. 166 identification cards have been issued by the Administrative Police Department (Ministry of Public Security) and sent to Khanh Hoa so far. 

The children are carefully guided to follow ID issuance process, including taking photos and fingerprints, etc. Vu Thi Ngoc Thinh, Phuoc Long Ward, said, “I come here for the ID card registration of my daughter born in 2011. We usually travel to the hometown of Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen Province by plane every summer holiday. We won’t have to present her certificate of birth if she has an ID card. It will be much convenient.”

A kid in ID issuance process,

According to Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Quang Sang, Head of Provincial Public Security Office for Administrative Management of Social Order, the Identification Law 2023 takes effect from July 1, for the first time stimulating that the under-14-year-olds are eligible for issuance of ID cards, which give them many benefits in daily life. With ID cards, they do not need to bring with them birth certificates when traveling by plane or train, or vaccination records or medical insurance cards when getting medical checks. All the information is included in the ID cards. The ID cards application for the under-14-year-olds are completely free of charge.

Specifically, high-security ID cards are small and compact enough to make it easy to be carried around for multiple operations. The addition of regulations on issuing ID cards to those under 14 is to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of citizens and serve state management; promote the value and utility of identification cards in the digital government and digital society.

The procedures for issuance of ID cards for citizens under 14 in Vietnam are as follows: The legal representative of a person under 6 shall follow procedures for issuance of an ID card to the person via the public service portal or the national identification application.

For those not yet obtaining birth certificates, his or her legal representative shall follow procedures for ID card issuance connected with birth registration on the public service portal, the national identification application or in person at the identification-managing agency.

The identification-managing agency does not collect information about biometric identification and verification of persons under 6. Persons from 6 to under 14 years of age accompanied by their legal representatives must provide information about biometric identification and verification at the identification-managing agency.

T.L

Translated by N.T