SINGAPORE: Parents’ dialect groups will be included in digital birth certificates issued from Sep 1, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Friday (Aug 12).
This comes after ICA received several queries regarding the exclusion of this information.
Parents’ dialect groups were among the fields of information that were left out during the transition from physical to digital birth certificates. These fields of information were dropped as they were “not necessary for policy and other administrative needs”, ICA said.
Other fields of information excluded are: The parents’ countries of birth, the mother’s address, the child’s place of birth registration and a section called “Informant’s Particulars”.
This was done “to simplify the registration process, and to reduce the number of fields” the authority added.
Information about parents’ dialect groups continues to be registered by ICA, said the authority, adding that it is available in Singpass. However, ICA acknowledged “the feelings that have been expressed on the matter”.
“We have therefore decided to include parents’ dialect in digital birth certificates issued from Sep 1, 2022,” ICA said.
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This comes after ICA received several queries regarding the exclusion of this information.
Parents’ dialect groups were among the fields of information that were left out during the transition from physical to digital birth certificates. These fields of information were dropped as they were “not necessary for policy and other administrative needs”, ICA said.
Other fields of information excluded are: The parents’ countries of birth, the mother’s address, the child’s place of birth registration and a section called “Informant’s Particulars”.
This was done “to simplify the registration process, and to reduce the number of fields” the authority added.
Information about parents’ dialect groups continues to be registered by ICA, said the authority, adding that it is available in Singpass. However, ICA acknowledged “the feelings that have been expressed on the matter”.
“We have therefore decided to include parents’ dialect in digital birth certificates issued from Sep 1, 2022,” ICA said.
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