1. Go personally to your local police station, gendarmerie, or sub-prefecture.
2. Proceed at the Identity Card Section.
3. Provide information which are required at the officer in charge.
4. The officer in charge affixes the applicant's photograph and sends the specimen to the Chief of the Section.
5. The Chief of the section verifies the information on the template, records it and sends it to the Chief of Police for his approval and signature, and returns it to the Identity Card Section where it is laminated and given to the applicant.

• Identification photographs
• The identity card that is about to expire (or a copy of the birth certificate excerpt, family booklet, marriage certificate, or the applicant may bring 2 witnesses known to the neighborhood, along with their valid identification documents)
• Fiscal stamps (500 + 200 CFA francs) [approximately $CDN1.10 + $CDN0.10]

National Police
EUCAP Sahel Mali
Route Nationale 5, Sbnikoro
B.P. E2953, Bamako MAL

• Must be a Mali citizen, at least 18 years of age.

1,000 CFA [approximately $CDN2.20 ] when picking up the card, along with a receipt

A National Identity Card is valid for 3 years.

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Delay necessary to obtain the card: 24 hours

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Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
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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.
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The embassy official noted that it is "normally" not possible to obtain a national identity card outside of Mali. According to the official, a citizen of Mali can however obtain a consular identity card, which confirms his identity and "serves as a national identity card". The consular identity card can only be issued by Malian embassies and general consulates abroad, since it is not part of the mandate of honorary consuls to issue those cards.

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e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

According to the website of the government of Mali, "L'Administration votre service"("Administration at your service"), the issuance of the Mali national identity card is based on the Decree No. 14/PG/RM of January 9, 1988 on the establishment and regulation of the issuance of the identity card and the consular card (Dcret n014/PG- RM du 09 janvier 1988 portant institution et rglementation de la dlivrance de la carte d'identit et de la carte consulaire) (Mali n.d.b.).

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

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