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 Overview
Starting
from 23 June 2003, the Immigration Department has been issuing
a new generation of identity cards, the multi-application
smart identity cards, to the general public at the existing
Registration of Persons Offices.
Apart from immigration application, a smart identity card
can also support other value-added non-immigration applications,
including e-Cert and library card. Holders of smart identity
cards are able to enjoy a variety of government electronic
services in a safe and secure manner.
On
18 August 2003, a territory-wide identity card replacement
exercise was launched to replace the old identity cards in
an orderly and controlled manner. The replacement exercise
was completed on 31 March 2007. From 2 April 2007 onwards,
persons who have missed their specified call-up periods and
have not replaced their old identity cards should make their
applications at any of the Registration of Persons Offices.
For details of late applications, please click here.
Holders
of the old identity cards had been called up through public
announcement to apply in groups, in accordance with their
year of birth and within the periods as specified below:
| Years
of birth |
Call-up
schedule |
| 1968
or 1969 |
15
Sep. 2003 to 15 Nov. 2003 |
| 1966
or 1967 |
17
Nov. 2003 to 10 Jan. 2004 |
| 1964
or 1965 |
12
Jan. 2004 to 13 Mar. 2004 |
| 1962
or 1963 |
15
Mar. 2004 to 22 May 2004 |
| 1960
or 1961 |
24
May 2004 to 24 Jul. 2004 |
| 1958
or 1959 |
26
Jul. 2004 to 25 Sep. 2004 |
| Old
identity cards issued before 23 Jun. 2003 and bearing
a year of birth between and including 1958 and 1969 ceased
to be valid on 16 Oct. 2006. For details, please click
here. |
| 1956
or 1957 |
27
Sep. 2004 to 27 Nov. 2004 |
| 1954
or 1955 |
29
Nov. 2004 to 22 Jan. 2005 |
| 1952
or 1953 |
24
Jan. 2005 to 12 Mar. 2005 |
| 1950
or 1951 |
14
Mar. 2005 to 23 Apr. 2005 |
| 1947,
1948 or 1949 |
25
Apr. 2005 to 18 Jun. 2005 |
| 1943,
1944, 1945 or 1946 |
20
Jun. 2005 to 6 Aug. 2005 |
| Old
identity cards issued before 23 Jun. 2003 and bearing
a year of birth between and including 1943 and 1957 ceased
to be valid on 15 Jan. 2007. For details, please click
here. |
| 1970
or 1971 |
8
Aug. 2005 to 24 Sep. 2005 |
| 1972
or 1973 |
26
Sep. 2005 to 12 Nov. 2005 |
| 1974
or 1975 |
14
Nov. 2005 to 24 Dec. 2005 |
| 1976
or 1977 |
28
Dec. 2005 to 11 Feb. 2006 |
| 1978
or 1979 |
13
Feb. 2006 to 25 Mar. 2006 |
| Old
identity cards issued before 23 Jun. 2003 and bearing
a year of birth between and including 1970 and 1979 ceased
to be valid on 17 Sep. 2007. For details, please click
here. |
| 1980,
1981 or 1982 |
27
Mar. 2006 to 27 May 2006 |
| 1983,
1984 or 1985 |
29
May 2006 to 8 Jul. 2006 |
| 1990,
1991, 1992, |
10
Jul. 2006 to 11 Nov. 2006 |
| 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 or 2003 |
| Any
year before 1927 or 1927 |
4
Sep. 2006 to 11 Nov. 2006 |
| 1928,
1929, 1930, 1931 or 1932 |
13
Nov. 2006 to 23 Dec. 2006 |
| 1933,
1934, 1935, 1936 or 1937 |
27
Dec. 2006 to 10 Feb. 2007 |
| 1938,
1939, 1940, 1941 or 1942 |
12
Feb. 2007 to 31 Mar. 2007 |
Note: Persons born in 1993 to 1996 or 1986 to 1989 should
have applied/apply for smart identity cards at the Registration
of Persons Offices when they attain the age of 11 or 18. |
Invalidation
of old identity cards
- All
the old identity cards issued before 23 June 2003 will be
declared invalid by batches in accordance with the “first
apply, first invalidated” principle through the issue
of Registration of Persons (Invalidation of Identity Cards)
Order. For details, please click here.
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