Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chairs a meeting on the governance of the unified national ID project and its integration with the housing card in Baghdad on Sunday.
Sudani chairs meeting on unified national ID
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chaired a meeting Sunday on the governance of the unified national ID project and its integration with the housing card, according to a statement from his office.
The statement said al-Sudani “chaired a special meeting on the unified card governance project and its integration with the housing card.”
During the meeting, participants reviewed recommendations that include “adopting the unified national ID card system as the central system for managing citizens’ personal data,” and “adding housing card data and using the unified national ID card without the need to issue a separate housing card.”
The meeting also reviewed the development of the unified card’s electronic system to provide additional services, including “changing housing information, requesting a registry copy, changing marital status, alongside other services related to the unified card,” with the aim of “governing all types of services.”
The statement added that the system must be supported “with electronic applications to create a single reference for information adopted by all state institutions.”
Al-Sudani directed officials to “complete the project as quickly as possible,” and to “finalize the governance of the unified national ID card and expand the scope of adding other documents to it to become a unified national electronic reference,” in order to “ease the burden on citizens by reducing documents and limiting visits to government offices.”
The project includes rehabilitating all national ID offices and their infrastructure in all cities, and updating computers and electronic programs “in line with the latest global technological methods,” the statement said.