As of Wednesday 31st August, national registrar Alexander Vega, Production of hologram cards will cease to start the process of massification of the electronic card. In 488 municipalities of the country.
The production of the electronic document will start with people over 18 who are involved in the process for the first time. Although the registrar has made it clear that this does not invalidate either of the two documents, the physical and digital document, but rather will be accepted as long as both are genuine.
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“After 22 years of our hologram card, as the national registrar, I inform you that the current hologram cell has been discontinued.This does not mean that it has lost its validity, but that the process of massification digital electronic cell nationwide,” Vega announced.
The population directorate stated that citizens who want to make changes in the document can do so by copy. He also said that the procedure for having an electronic card, which must be accepted in all establishments, can be carried out in all capitals.
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“There is no obligation to change. Anyone who wants to have and have on mobile for interoperability can do it through duplication”the registrar stated.
He reported that electronic ID will not be mandatory, but that the hologram document is expected to expire in the coming years, with plans to make a gradual change and renew 42 million documents.
“The big announcement is that it will no longer be produced and therefore our 18-year-olds will be able to get it for free, and gradually we will run a large program for 2 to 3 years. The other document will no longer be valid,” he added.
On the other hand, Vega confirmed that resources were secured during talks with President Gustavo Petro and that “the Government will make all the budgetary and technological effort to make this cell (the digital one) work with Government institutions”.
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National registrar Alexander Vega also pointed out some of the advantages that the electronic document will have. He emphasized that Colombian citizens can also use it. It will act as a digital identity and passport to travel to South America.
“Likewise, public and private entities will receive it in the same way as holograms, but the important thing is that once we initiate interoperability with the National Government, the citizen’s digital folder will be there,” Vega said. Said.
The person in charge of the population directorate also announced that he had a meeting with Runt to have the driver’s license of the citizens in the digital folder of the identity card. He said that other documents could be added as well.
“All documents that want to be interoperable can be done in a digital folder. It can be not just a military notebook, it can be digital medicine history, it can be covid tests, organ certification, and we have already started massing it.”
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