Lost National ID in 2020: Has a Citizen Identity Card been issued?
Article 38 of the 2014 Law on Citizen Identification stipulates:
This Law shall take effect from January 1, 2016.
Identity cards issued prior to the effective date of this Law shall remain valid until the expiration date as prescribed; at the citizen's request, they may be exchanged for Citizen Identification cards.
Legal documents that have been issued using information from identity cards retain their legal validity.
Forms that have been issued stipulating the use of information from identity cards may continue to be used until December 31, 2019.
- Localities that do not have the necessary information infrastructure, physical, technical conditions, and personnel to manage citizen identification, as well as the National Population Database and the Citizen Identification Database, shall continue to manage citizens according to the legal provisions in place before this Law takes effect; no later than January 1, 2020, they must uniformly implement the provisions of this Law.
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Thus, according to the above regulations, the issuance of Citizen Identification cards is uniformly applied nationwide from January 1, 2020. Therefore, in the case of losing your identity card, you need to go to the competent authority specified in Article 26 of this Law to complete the procedures for issuing a Citizen Identification card (if the locality has managed to implement it).
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