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Free software to help residents fill up identity card application
Emiratis and expatriate professionals who have been desperately trying to fill up online application for identity cards before deadline, no longer need to face 'web failure' due to heavy traffic.
- By Binsal Abdul Kader Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:50 November 16, 2008
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Abu Dhabi :Emiratis and expatriate professionals who have been desperately trying to fill up online application for identity cards before deadline, no longer need to face 'web failure' due to heavy traffic.
They will soon get a free software of "pre application registration" which will enable the applicant to fill up the form on a computer even without an internet connection, and take the print out with the bar code to proceed for registration, a senior official of Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) told Gulf News on Sunday.
Apart from EIDA website, free CDs of software will be available at all EIDA centres which can be copied and redistributed, said Engineer Thamer Rashid Al Qasimi, Planning Director and Project Management Director at EIDA.
PDF format
"Even if you don't have a printer you can copy it on PDF format to take print out from somewhere else," he said.
"People will be able to download it from several other websites which have offered to host the "software" and we welcome other organisations [having websites] to follow the suit," the EIDA official stressed.
The official said there is no move to freeze the bank accounts of expatriate professionals who do not register before the December 31 deadline.
"EIDA does not have that authority but Emiratis may find it difficult to do certain official transaction from January 2009, as per a law in this regard," said Al Qasimi.
"The law stipulates that national identity cards will be the only valid identification document for Emiratis for any official transactions from January 1, 2009," Al Qasimi said.
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