The Myanmar government needs to seek a prompt legal solution to replace current temporary identity cards with suitable ones, as the number of people holding temporary identity cards in Rakhine State has exceeded 850,000, the parliamentary bill committee said on Wednesday, March 12. Temporary identity cards, also kno
The Myanmar government needs to seek a prompt legal solution to replace current temporary identity cards with suitable ones, as the number of people holding temporary identity cards in Rakhine State has exceeded 850,000, the parliamentary bill committee said on Wednesday, March 12.
Temporary identity cards, also known as “white cards”, are temporary by their nature. Individuals are legally prevented from holding these cards for a long time. The government needs to review the cardholder's file to determine whether or not the individual should receive citizenship, the committee said.
There are 6 kinds of identity cards in Myanmar. According to statistics, the number of guest citizenship and associate citizenship card holders remains fairly small, but the numbers of national registration card and temporary identity card holders are quite large, the committee remarked.
Counting residents above the age of 10, there are 36.6 million holders of national registration cards, 36,000 of guest citizenship cards, 1.3 million of associate citizenship cards, 590,000 of national registration cards, 850,000 of temporary identity cards, 32,000 of foreign registration cards and 1.2 million who hold no identity cards, said the committee.