To better understand the benefits when people use electronic identification accounts and the necessary procedures to register, the Binh Duong Provincial Portal (Portal) had an exchange with Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luoc - Deputy Head of the Police Division for administrative management of social order, Binh Duong Provincial Police.
Portal: Dear Mr., what is an electronic identification account?
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luoc: An electronic identification (e-ID) account includes a login name (which is a citizen's personal identification number) and a password (sent via SMS to each individual). This account has been authenticated by the Ministry of Public Security through the National Population Database system, ensuring its accuracy, uniqueness and cannot be faked.
According to the Prime Minister's Decision no. 34/2021/QD-TTg, citizens aged full 14 years or older register for an e-ID account through an e-ID app. For individuals who are under 14 years old, they must register under the e-ID account of their father, mother or guardian.
Registering for an e-ID account is not mandatory but recommended, because in the future, all public services will be performed through e-ID.
Portal: Could you tell us the benefits when people use e-ID accounts?
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luoc: Firstly, with an e-ID account, citizens can sit at home to perform many public services (integrated on the national e-ID app) without having to go directly to the headquarters of state agencies. When using e-ID, the system will automatically fill in citizen's information in registration forms without having to declare and fill in information manually as before. This will save a lot of time as well as costs for declaration forms like before; minimize citizens' travel during the current Covid-19 situation.
Second, citizens can provide and share their information with third parties through QR code scanning or other technical solutions, when the third-party system is eligible to connect to the identification system and electronic authentication.
Third, an e-ID account can also replace the physical Citizen ID Card and integrate the display of citizens' documents such as driver's license, vehicle registration certificate, health insurance card, etc.
Fourth, with an e-ID, citizens can perform financial transactions such as paying electricity and water bills, paying social and medical insurance, bank transferring, etc.
Fifth, the confidentiality of citizen information, which cannot be faked, it is accurate and unique because the authenticated information from the National Population Database is the original data assigned by the Government to the Ministry of Public Security for management.
Police force for administrative management of social order conducts procedures for issuing Citizen ID cards with electronic chips to people
Portal: What is the procedure for registering an identification account, dear Mr.?
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luoc: From February 25, 2022, the Ministry of Public Security began to issue e-ID accounts to citizens nationwide. In the first stage, the Police office will issue e-ID accounts directly at the headquarters of the Police unit, through the issuance of chip-based citizen ID cards; later, we will study the online registration form.
Regarding the process, when citizens go to the district and provincial police offices to carry out procedures for issuing, exchanging and re-issuing chip-based citizen ID cards, they can register for an e-ID account by following the steps and providing the following information:
Step 1: Citizen notifies officier about the application of e-ID account. Registration information includes: Phone number, email address (Email). Citizen can provide additional information about dependents with accompanying documents (if citizen wishes to integrate this information into the application file for e-ID).
In case citizen needs to register to integrate the information displayed on the national e-ID app, papers such as driver's license, vehicle registration certificate, Social insurance, health insurance card, etc., then bring more original papers for comparison.
Step 2: Citizen makes application for issuing, exchanging and re-issuing chip-based a citizen ID card, including personal information, relatives and biometric information.
Step 3: Officer continues to process the application for issuing, exchanging and re-issuing a chip-based citizen ID card in accordance with the issuance process of a Citizen ID card.
In January 2022, the Prime
Minister signed Decision 06 approving the project on development and application of population data, electronic
identification and authentication in support of national digital transformation
in the 2022 - 2025 period with a vision toward 2030.
The project aims to complete
the connection and integration of the electronic
identification authentication system of the Ministry of Public Security
by 2022 with the National Public Service Portal. The purpose is to serve
identification, authentication, and creation of electronic accounts of
individuals in handling administrative procedures and providing online public
services.
Along with that, ensuring
to gradually replace personal documents on the basis of integration and
authentication of personal information and documents into the national
population database so that only Citizen
ID cards and app of National electronic
identification (VNEID) can be used. In which, the focus is
immediately on a number of documents such as: Health insurance, driver's
license, certificate number or practice license, vaccination, health care,
education, card of official, civil servant, public employee, etc.
Reported by Nguyen Hoang- Translated by Thanh Tam