Iraq National Card

The Iraqi National Card is an biometric identity card issued by the Ministry of Interior from January 1, 2016. It replaced the Nationality Certificate and Civil Identification Document and the Residency Card. This card has a high security platform and is connected directly to the Iraqi Civil System, and can be used to travel within Iraq and Syria.

History

The Ministry of Interior awarded Giesecke & Devrient the contract for this project on October 31, 2013. The National Card was first issued starting September 13, 2015 and is rolling out to each of the 190 districts of Iraq over a period of several years with the goal of issuing an ID card to every Iraqi citizen.

Design

The new National Card is an ID-1 (credit card size) polycarbonate card with an embedded RFID chip. It is covered with multi-color guillochés. All the information on it is given in Arabic and Kurdish.

Front side

The front side shows the coat of arms of Iraq and the words "جمهورية العراق / Republic of Iraq", "وزارة الداخلية / Ministry of Interior" and "مديرية الجنسية العامة / General Directorate of Nationality". It contains the following information:

Photo of ID card holder
National identification number(12 decimal digits)
Access number for RFID chip (9 alphanumeric digits)
Given name
Father's name
Grandfather's name (paternal)
Surname (only if holder has one)
Mother's name
Grandfather's name (maternal)
Gender
Blood type

Rear side

Issuing authority
Date of expiry (YYYY/MM/DD)
Date of issue (YYYY/MM/DD)
Place of birth (only the city/town of birth, no country)
Date of birth (YYYY/MM/DD)
Family number (18 alphanumeric digits)
Machine-readable zone

Machine-readable zone

The MRZ is structured according to the ICAO standard for machine-readable ID cards.

First line

Second line

Third line

Empty spaces are represented by "<".

Security features

The identity card contains the following security features: It has an RFID chip.

Cost

It costs 5,000 Iraqi dinars for a new card application, which is equal to US$4.

External links

Official website
Iraqi General Directorate For Nationality Archived 2019-01-25 at the Wayback Machine