NRIC re-registration at age 55 to start next year: ICA
From next year, Singapore citizens and permanent residents (PRs) will be required to re-register their National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) when they turn 55.
Those who turn 55 on or after 1 January 2017, and have not been issued with a replacement NRIC in the 10 years prior to their 55th birthday, will have to re-register their NRIC, said the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) in a news release on Monday (14 November).
The move will allow those who re-register to update the photographs on their NRICs, which will help mitigate any security and identification issues that may emerge from outdated NRIC photos.
Currently, citizens and PRs have to register for their NRIC at the age of 15 and re-register at age 30. The latter process allows for NRIC holders to update their personal information, including their photographs.
There are also plans to introduce the capturing of iris images at the point of NRIC collection from 2017. This will “augment current identity verification methods using photographs and fingerprints,” the release said.
Re-registration compulsory
The ICA emphasised that NRIC re-registration at age 55 is compulsory. It is an offence under the National Registration Act should an NRIC holder fail to re-register his NRIC within a year of turning 55.
Reminder letters to re-register will be sent out, six and nine months after an NRIC holder turns 55 years old or within one year of the holder’s return to Singapore if he is residing overseas.
Those who have turned 55 before 2017 will be given the option to re-register as well, and the ICA will provide more details of this exercise next year. “There is no need for this group of NRIC holders to do anything in 2017,” the ICA said.
The re-registration fee remains unchanged at $10 for citizens and $50 for PRs. Collection of new NRICs be done at the ICA building or at selected SingPost outlets (for a $6 service fee).
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