SINGAPORE: Parents’ dialect 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 non-inclusion of this information.
Parents’ dialect were among the fields of information that were not included during the introduction of digital birth certificates as they were “not necessary for policy and other administrative needs”, ICA said.
Other fields of information excluded are: The parents’ country 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 the parents’ dialect continues to be registered by ICA, said the authority, adding that it is available in Singpass.
“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 non-inclusion of this information.
Parents’ dialect were among the fields of information that were not included during the introduction of digital birth certificates as they were “not necessary for policy and other administrative needs”, ICA said.
Other fields of information excluded are: The parents’ country 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 the parents’ dialect continues to be registered by ICA, said the authority, adding that it is available in Singpass.
“We have therefore decided to include parents’ dialect in digital birth certificates issued from Sep 1, 2022,” ICA said.
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