BELGIAN ID CARD As of 2020, over 28 million Thales’ Belgian ID cards have been issued in the country. Initiated in 2003, the BelPIC (Belgian Personal Identity Card Project) program has reached 100% of its population targets at the end of 2011. The polycarbonate credit card-sized document is the national identification card in the country, the official and mandatory ID…
Standard passport applications can be submitted via the Police’s eServices or in person at a police licence services point of your choice. It is easiest to do this online:
The first pilot phase of the Portuguese ID Card also known as Cartão de Cidadão started February 14, 2007, in the Azores region. The full roll-out started in 2008. In 2014, all Portuguese citizens have their new national identity card in hand replacing the old paper-based document. The goal of issuing a Portuguese ID Card was to revolutionize the way…
We use the Spanish ID Cards as the main mechanism to identify us before any public organism or authority. We daily take it everywhere inside our wallet and the great majority of us don’t really know which version of the Spanish ID Cards are carrying. The potential of using it, the meaning of some fields like the MRZ or even…
Depending on which canton you live in, you can apply for an identity card either in person at the residents’ registration office in your commune or at your canton’s passport office (by phone or by internet, in person depending on where you live). Some cantons offer both ways of ordering (common domicile or passport office
