In MaleEdit

1. Issue a token number from the reception. Submit the filled application form with necessary documents to application collecting counters.
2. Wait in the waiting area until your name is announced to take your photograph.
3. Collect the slip stating the date & time to collect the national identity card.
4. Visit to DNR on the date stated on the slip. Handover the slip to the reception & receive a token number, & wait in the waiting area. Go to the counter where your number is displayed & collect the identity card after stamping your finger print.
5. People who come to receive the identity card on behalf of the owner should come with their own identity card & the collection slip. If the person who comes to collect the identity card does not have the collection slip he/she should have a letter from the owner.

Collecting Points (Province)Edit

1. Submit the filled application form with necessary documents to collecting points.
2. Give your finger print & signature once your photograph is taken & obtain the originals of all the documents submitted with the application form.
3. When informed to collect the identity card, go to the collecting point or island office & obtain the identity card after signing to confirm that you received the identity card.
4. If you want to collect the identity card from Male (applied through collecting points) fax a letter through island office or write on the side of application form the name & address of the person who will collect the identity card. Otherwise the cards will be available from the collecting points (card owners mother, father, or kin does not have to bring a letter)

Collecting points from abroadEdit

1. Submit the filled application form with necessary documents to collecting points.
2. Give your finger print & signature once your photograph is taken & obtain the originals of all the documents submitted with the application form.
3. When informed to collect the identity card, go to the collecting point & obtain the identity card after signing to confirm that you received the identity card.
4. If you want to collect the identity card from Male (applied through collecting points from abroad) bring a letter from the owner including the name & address of the person who would collect the card or write on the side of application form the name & address of the person who will collect the identity card. Otherwise the cards would not be available.

• Filled "Dhivehi Rayyitheh Kan Angaidhey Card Hehdhumah Edhey Form"
• Official documents listed below:
  • If change in address (peoples registry of the house/Male)(If registered in an island, registration is not needed)
  • If change in name, birth date (birth certificate & peoples registry should be provided if registered in Male)( If registered in an island, registration is not needed)
  • Official documents from a court (court order documents)
  • Extra documents are not needed to change photograph or signature.

Male':

Department of National Registration (DNR),

Huravee Building, Ameer Ahmed Magu,

Male, Phone: (+960)3323814

Province:

Collecting points.

Abroad:

High Commission of Maldives in Malaysia,

Consulate of Maldives in Thirivaranpuram,

High Commission of Maldives in Srilanka.

Official documents including the information (birth certificate, house registration etc)

• Rf 150/- to change a photograph or signature.
• Rf 150/- to change any information from the card.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Please attach documents which can be used by people who would like to follow this procedure.    

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.    

• Average time for service: 2 (two) days
• No. of visits required: 2 (two)

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M". 
	

Please provide instructions on obtaining the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

Citizens changing any information/photograph/signature etc from their identity cards should apply to Department of National Registration, & citizens who apply to islands would get the service from collecting points.

Enter other informations which might help

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Place some external links which might help

More information which might help people.