Emirates ID number allocated for life – cannot be changed

Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) confirmed that the ID number issued for each individual, whether a citizen or a resident, is registered in the population register system, and is fixed and may not be modified or changed.

It is a random number consisting of 15 digits, including a four-digit part that may match the year of birth of the ID card holder; however, the said part of the ID number does not match the year of birth necessarily and the figures mentioned do not represent the approved field that determines the date of birth of the card holder.

Emirates Identity Authority said in a press release that the ID number is allocated for its holder for life and may not be given to anyone else.

It is a unique number that may not be changed nor replicated, whether for citizens or residents, pointing out that in case the ID holder changed his date of birth, this does not allow him in any way to change the ID number issued to him, and in case the resident cancelled his residence visa and left the country, his ID number is not cancelled and a new ID card under the same number will be issued to him once he returns to the country.

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