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National Identity Card (Cartão Nacional de Identificação) | |
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Type | Compulsory Identity document |
Issued by | Cape Verde |
The National Identity Card (Portuguese: Cartão Nacional de Identificação) or CNI is an identity card issued by the Cape Verdean government to its citizens. As defined by Decree-Law No. 19/2014, of March 17 [1] and published at Boletim Oficial [2]
The card is of similar size and appearance to a credit card. It contains a variety of information about the citizen.
The front of the card
The back of the card
On the chip
Each Civil Identification Number is a 13 digit number defined as YYYYMMDDSAAAC, which deciphers as follows:
Field | Description |
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YYYYMMDD | Date of birth: YYYY is four digit year, MM is two digit for month, DD is a two digit for day |
S | Sex: F = Female, M = Male. |
AAA | Sequential number: three digit (up to 999 people born on the same day for each sex) |
C | Check digit used to validate the ID Number. |