Hamyang-gun: From the 21st, Resident Registration Number's Back Digits Will Disappear from Passports

To use as ID, you must obtain and present a Passport Information Certificate together

Exterior view of Hamyang County Office (Photo by Hamyang County)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] From the 21st, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam Province will issue passports without displaying the last digits of the resident registration number to protect personal information.

This procedure follows the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' revised Passport Act, and the resident registration number is not mandatory information on passports according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regulations, nor is it information checked by immigration officers during entry and exit.

Even if the last digits of the resident registration number are not displayed on the passport, supplementary measures such as issuing a passport information certificate will be implemented simultaneously so that the passport can still be used as an identification card domestically.

If you wish to use it as an ID, you can present the passport information certificate issued at an unmanned civil service issuance machine or the passport counter at the Civil Service Department together with the passport.

From the 21st, six types of passport fact certificates, including the passport information certificate, can also be issued at unmanned civil service issuance machines and the passport counter at the Civil Service Department.

A county official stated, “We will do our best to provide kind and communicative civil service administration.”

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