March 31 deadline for this year’s NIC applications
View(s):All schools should send in students applications for the issue of National Identity Cards by the end of March 2020, the Registrar of Persons said last week.
The Registrar of Persons Commissioner General Mr. P. Viyani Gunathilake said the department had sent out a communiqué to all schools and pirivenas urging them to apply for NICs for Ordinary Level students sitting for the exams this December.
All school principals had been requested to send in applications duly filled and signed by March 31 2020, Mr Gunatilake said.
The department plans to issue the NICs by September 2020.
“Early applications will make our work easy,” the Commissioner General said.
He also said schools principals need to be attentive when application forms are filled. They should read the instructions properly and re-check if student signatures and school seals are in place. He said necessary documents, including the birth certificates, had to be attached to the forms as well.
The department had already received around 10% of applications from schools. Last year the number of student applications received amounted to around 350,000.
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