Serious Greedy PAP, PAPsmearer must re-register again for NRIC, and pay $10

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SINGAPORE: All Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents (PRs) turning 55 years old on or after Jan 1, 2017, and who have not been issued a replacement NRIC in the 10 years before their 55th birthday, will need to re-register for a new National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) from January next year, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) announced on Monday (Nov 14).
The re-registration will cost S$10 for Singapore citizens and S$50 for PRs, ICA said, which is the same amount for NRIC registration at age 15 and re-registration at age 30.
ICA explained that this process is necessary as photographs on existing NRICs become outdated as NRIC holders get older, and may cause difficulties in identification, particularly for the elderly.
"Besides possible inconvenience to the NRIC holders, this may also lead to security risks because the authorities may not be able to correctly identify an individual based on his outdated photograph," ICA said.
The deputy director of Citizen Services Centre at ICA Chui Wai Cheng also said: "There's also the risk that if the card is to be picked up by another person, the person could assume the identity of the rightful cardholder. It could be financial transaction or attempting to purchase goods and services assuming the identity of another person."
Channel NewsAsia understands that ICA had received feedback on such cases, but does not track the numbers as some are private incidents and were not reported.
In addition, ICA said from 2017, it plans to collect iris images at the point of NRIC collection. This comes after the Parliament passed amendments to the National Registration Act to strengthen the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on Nov 10.


RE-REGISTRATION IS COMPULSORY
Those who are required to re-register for their NRICs will receive a notification letter from ICA a month before their 55th birthday, according to ICA. They will have one year to complete the re-registration - from after they turn 55 years old up till before they turn 56. Those living abroad can re-register their NRIC within a year of their return to Singapore, ICA said.
ICA recommended that re-registration be done online via the ICA website.
"They can also re-register using the self-service kiosks located at the eLobby on Level 1 of the ICA Building. NRIC holders who are unable to re-register online can complete the hardcopy application form enclosed in ICA's notification letter and mail it to the ICA Citizen Services Centre," ICA said.
Re-registrations submitted online will take about three working days to be processed, while processing time for mail-in applications will be about two weeks, ICA said.
When re-registering, NRIC holders will need to update their personal particulars and submit a recent photograph of themselves, ICA said.
An acknowledgement card will be sent to those whose NRIC re-registration is successful. For collection, NRIC holders can book an appointment online, or via ICA's mobile app.
ICA added that it is an offence under the National Registration Act if the NRIC holder fails to re-register his NRIC within a year of turning 55 years old, or within one year of his return to Singapore if he resides overseas. ICA also said it will send out reminder letters both six and nine months after the NRIC holder turns 55 to ask him to re-register, if he has not done so.
For Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents who turned 55 years old before 2017, optional re-registration of NRICs will be introduced from 2018, ICA said. Details will be provided next year.


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