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PSA aims to deliver 50M Nat'l ID cards by end-2022


The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Saturday it will ramp up the production of Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) cards or National ID cards to comply with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive to issue 50 million IDs by the end of the year.

In an interview on Dobol B TV, PSA Deputy National Statistician Fred Sollesta said that “starting October, magra-ramp up kami together with BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) ng card production from around 80,000 [a day], tina-target namin starting October ma-increase siya sa 133,000 [a day].”

(Starting October, we will ramp up, together with the BSP, the card production from around 80,000 a day, we are targeting to increase it to 133,000 a day.)

Sollesta said the PSA will also roll out printable and digital versions of the National IDs to achieve the target of 50 million IDs issued by the end of the year.

In his first State of the Nation Address, Marcos ordered the issuance of 30 million physical cards and 20 million digital PhilSys IDs to achieve ultimate goal of issuing 92 million by the middle of next year.

Sollesta said the printable and digital versions of the National ID will have similar features as the physical cards, such as a unique QR code that can be scanned for authentication.

The printable and digital versions will be issued to those who are yet to receive their physical cards and are still valid proof of one’s identification, according to the PSA official.

He said that to date 71 million Filipinas have registered to the PhilSys, in which their demographic and biometrics information are already taken.

Of this number, 17 million cards have been produced of which 15 million were distributed.

“By first semester of 2023, we will deliver 92 million combinations of physical, printable, and mobile IDs,” Sollesta said. —LBG, GMA News

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