Preparing to issue identification codes to every Vietnamese citizen

The Ministry of Justice said that the personal identification number will consist of 12 digits, issued to each citizen from birth, unchanged throughout life, and not repeated by others. It is expected that the issuance of identification codes will be implemented from June 2013 to May 2014.

The Ministry of Justice has just completed a draft master plan to simplify administrative procedures, citizen papers and national databases related to population management at the request of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the Government. The draft plan is being put out for comments from relevant agencies.

The project aims to serve the development of the Civil Status Law, aiming to establish and issue citizen identification numbers for each citizen; improve the civil status registration book from many books as at present into one book - the Civil Status Book; establish a personal Civil Status Book and issue it to Vietnamese citizens when registering for birth; build a national electronic civil status database...

To complete the legal basis, the project development agency determined that it is necessary to first regulate personal identification numbers in the Civil Status Law project, as a basis for developing legal documents specifically regulating personal identification numbers and the mechanism for issuing and managing personal identification numbers.

Personal identification number is the basis for creating documents.
in a citizen card.

Specifically, the personal identification number is a 12-digit number, established from the National Population Database, issued to each Vietnamese citizen from the time of birth registration and attached to them until death, unchanged throughout life (even in the case of a citizen renouncing/being deprived of Vietnamese nationality, when regaining/acquiring Vietnamese nationality, the personal identification number does not change), not repeated in other people, used to identify citizen information data on the National Population Database and other specialized databases.

In the immediate future, the Ministry of Public Security will be the focal point to help the Government manage the personal identification number warehouse (on the basis of the personal identification number warehouse that the Government has assigned the Ministry of Public Security to build and manage).

Regarding legal value, the personal identification number is issued to each citizen when registering birth from the effective date of the Law on Civil Status. For citizens who have registered birth before the effective date of the Law on Civil Status, the personal identification number is issued when carrying out procedures for issuing new, changing, replacing identity cards or registering permanent residence. The personal identification number is recorded on the birth certificate and identity card, this number does not change throughout the citizen's life; the personal identification number issued to this citizen cannot be used to issue to another citizen.

The personal identification number is the original number to accurately trace citizens in the National Population Database to serve the management requirements of sectors and fields and is used as a basis for linking personal information in sectoral and field databases. Sectors and fields manage sectoral databases through personal identification numbers to connect and exploit citizen information from the National Population Database to ensure information consistency.

The district and provincial police have the authority to issue identification numbers to citizens who have registered their births before the effective date of the Law on Civil Status when citizens register for permanent residence or issue new, change or replace their identity cards. The commune-level People's Committee issues personal identification numbers to newborn citizens when registering their births from the effective date of the Law on Civil Status. When registering births on the national population database system, a new citizen identification number will be created for the civil status officer to take that identification number and record it on the citizen's birth certificate. Data on this identification number is the original information to identify and link other information about the citizen.

According to preliminary calculations by the Ministry of Justice, providing personal identification numbers instead of having to declare personal information, applying information technology to administrative procedure settlement will help save time filling in information, estimated at over 461 billion VND/year. The corresponding cost for photocopying and certifying documents to carry out these administrative procedures is about 4,780 billion VND/year, while reducing 2,2010 billion VND/year when handling procedures at 4-level state administrative agencies when photocopying and certifying activities are reduced.

According to the draft project, the issuance of citizen identification codes will be implemented from June 2013 to May 2014.

The construction of a national population database is a database that concentrates basic information about citizens, used to look up information about citizens when handling administrative procedures, instead of presenting citizen papers when performing administrative transactions with state administrative agencies. This database will meet the requirements of providing basic information about citizens to individuals and organizations when they request to exploit and use it, but must ensure regulations on the privacy of citizens.

The project to build a national population database is expected to be implemented from June to December 2013.

In life, citizens can own about 20 types of documents. Citizen documents have a relatively large scope of application and are frequently used in social life, including 10: birth certificate, household registration book, identity card, passport, personal tax code card, social insurance book, health insurance card, driver's license, marriage certificate, death certificate.

Regarding the 10 types of documents mentioned above, there are about 70 administrative procedures. With a population of nearly 90 million people, the number of public administrative transactions between citizens and administrative agencies and public service agencies carried out annually in our country is on average about 600,000 transactions/day. With the common point that almost all administrative procedures are performed manually and require citizens to prove their identity by presenting or submitting copies or submitting certified copies of documents; records for performing administrative procedures as well as results of handling administrative procedures have not been shared or used in common, creating an administrative burden of up to thousands of billions of VND/year for individuals and organizations when participating in administrative transactions.

According to (Dan Tri) -LH