“Citizens who are included in the Financially Wanted System (FWS), which links the civil affairs department in various regions with the traffic police, Passport Department, recruitment offices, governorates and other government departments, will be prevented from renewing their national identity cards,” Abdul Rahman Al-Hussain, deputy director of the Department of Civil Affairs, said.
He, however, said the prevention did not include the families and other dependents that can be added to the family card.
Al-Hussain explained that if the fines and other financial obligations were not registered against the citizen in the FWS, he could have his ID renewed.
Meanwhile, the Civil Affairs Department said in its annual report for the year 2011 that it had issued or renewed more than a million IDs and had processed more than 6.6 million paper works on the Central Civil Registry.
The report explained that the paper works included issuance or renewal of IDs, compensation for the lost ones, giving computer printouts to citizens on request, registering births, deaths and divorces, issuing family cards, making job amendments, processing nationality procedures and organizing records using the state-of-the-art technology.
The report said the Civil Affairs Department had opened a number of new offices in many areas and had established mobile units to serve locations with large concentration of citizens and to reach the disabled at home.
It said the system of reserving appointments electronically had organized the work of the department and had also reduced crowding at its offices.
On the other hand, the Civil Affairs Department has successfully completed the second phase of its project to archive the documents of citizens in 86 of its branches all over the Kingdom under its new program titled “Documentation.” The program is aimed at keeping digital copies of all documents concerning citizens, including their IDs and other official papers.
