18 July, 2006

The national ID card

Today i went through the website of the National ID card to get some information. http://www.emiratesid.ae/en/
While I think the project is useful, I was surprised to see that they charge AED 100 for nationals and AED 500 for non-nationals. Quite a steep price difference! What do you all think about that??
Posted by www.hallodubai.com at 10:10 am

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm, did you expect equality ?

18 July, 2006 13:02
Harsha said...

Inequality is justified..to an extent, they are locals and citizens after all.

But a difference of 400 is a bit high.

18 July, 2006 14:32
secretdubai said...

With something like a national ID card, I don't think they should be charging for locals at all. If it becomes mandatory to carry it, citizens should get it free.

Dh500 seems rather steep for the expat version, unless it is intended to replace labour cards and health cards etc.

18 July, 2006 14:41
Keef said...

I believe the card is your health card, driving licence, e-gate card, library ticket etc.

However, I'm not goingto be rushing out to get one.

18 July, 2006 15:16
Anonymous said...

Yes, it does sound like a replacement for all different forms of identification. I don't think it's steep. secretdubai, yes, citizens should generally not be charged for such things -- but if it does replace several cards, it means that there need to be a charge. In this case, the charge is heavily subsidized (500 --> 100).

18 July, 2006 18:04
Anonymous said...

Egate - the Egate SW is on the blink, imagine the queues ...

18 July, 2006 18:20
Magnus Nystedt said...

500 seems pretty expensive to me.

18 July, 2006 21:54
Al Sinjab said...

I think 500 is much too high.

Is it likely that labourers' companies will cover the fees for them? What about people who work at hotels/retail?

It cost me AED 160 just to get my degree stamped by the UAE Embassy. They must make a hefty profit from this paper work!

18 July, 2006 23:23
Mme Cyn said...

So what's new? I'm not getting one if I don't have to... there are already so many copies of my photogrpahs and employer's no objection letters scattered around this toen,I think I'm already pretty identifiable.

19 July, 2006 14:37

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