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National Identity Card (Cartão Nacional de Identificação)
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 and published at Boletim Oficial

Appearance

The card is of similar size and appearance to a credit card. It contains a variety of information about the citizen.

Information provided

The front of the card

• Surname(s)
• Given Name(s)
• Sex
• Height
• Nationality
• Date of birth
• Civil Identification Number
• Expiry Date
• Card holder's facial photo
• Card holder's Signature

The back of the card

• Filiation
• Machine-readable zone (MRZ) as Machine readable passport

On the chip

• Same data as previous defined (except facial photo)
• Facial photo in JPEG2000 format
• Two Digital finger print
• Digital certificates (card's authentication and electronic signature) 2048bits RSA
• And other information (the system is expandable)

Civil Identification Number

Each Civil Identification Number is a 13 digit number defined as YYYYMMDDSAAAC, which deciphers as follows:

See also

• List of national identity card policies by country
• Machine-readable passport
• Bilhete de Identidade de Portugal
• Portugal Citizen Card

References

1. "Decreto-Lei nº 19/2014, de 17 de Março" [Decree-Law No. 19/2014, of 17 March] (PDF). SNIAC (in Portuguese). 17 April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
2. "Boletim Oficial(B.O) nº 19, I Serie, de 17 de Março de 2014, da Republica de Cabo Verde" [Official Bulletin (B.O) nº 19, I Serie, of 17 March 2014, of the Republic of Cape Verde]. Imprensa Nacional de Cabo Verde (INCV) (in Portuguese). 17 April 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

External links

• Porton di nos Ilha page for request CNI
• Registos Notariados e Identificação(RNI) page about the CNI (in Portuguese)
• Sistema Nacional de Identificação e Autenticação Civil (SNIAC) page about the CNI(in Portuguese)
• Imprensa Nacional de Cabo Verde (INCV) (in Portuguese)

v t e National identity cards
Africa	Cape Verde Ghana Morocco Mozambique Nigeria Somaliland South Africa
Asia	Afghanistan Azerbaijan Bangladesh China Cyprus Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Kazakhstan Kuwait Lebanon Macau Malaysia Mongolia North Korea Pakistan Philippines Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Turkey Vietnam Yemen
Europe	European Economic Area & Schengen Area Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Other Europe Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Gibraltar Kosovo Moldova Monaco Montenegro Northern Cyprus North Macedonia Russia Serbia Turkey Ukraine
North America	Caribbean Netherlands Costa Rica Dominican Republic Mexico United States (Real IDs)
South America	Argentina Brazil Peru Uruguay
Non-biometric identity cards () are indicated in italics.

• Government of Cape Verde
• National identity cards by country