May 2000 establishing
implementing measures
for Law No 62-64
15.02.2001
Decree No. 2001-103 of
15 February 2001 creating
the National Identification
Office
03.01.2002
13.06.2002
Law No. 2002-03 of 3
January 2002 relative to
the Identification of
Persons and to the Stay of
Foreigners in Côte d’Ivoire
and abrogating Law No.
98-448
Decree No. 2002-331 of 13
June 2002 establishing
conditions for obtaining
national ID cards and their
format requirements
temporary identification program based on highly
discretionary and nativist principles.
As a baseline, anyone wishing to obtain a national ID card
must submit a complete file including: birth certificate; ID
cards of at least one parent or a naturalization decree if
relevant; and a nationality certificate among other
documents.
Those who did not possess a birth certificate or proof of the
Ivorian nationality of one of their parents could go to their
village of birth or their “village of origin” to obtain a national
ID card by appearing before mobile identification teams
with two witnesses attesting to their identity and nationality
to obtain a national ID card.
This system was never implemented in practice.
Replaced the CNIS with a new institution, the Office
Nationale d’Identification (ONI), or National Identification
Office.
ONI was granted responsibility over a wide range of tasks,
including delivering identity documents to nationals and
foreigners; reorganizing and managing the civil status
system, and tracking immigration and emigration of
populations.
Note that the grant of responsibility to the ONI to oversee
the civil status system contradicts the Civil Status Law, which
places supervisory authority over civil status matters in the
court system (Article 12, Civil Status Law).
For Ivorian nationals: confirmed that Ivorians are to obtain
national ID cards according to procedures established by
decree.
For foreigners: reinstated the use of the term “residency
cards” (carte de séjour) for all foreigners, including
ECOWAS citizens.
Tensions and resentments concerning the cartes de séjour
were a major preoccupation in the political negotiations at
Linas-Marcoussis. One of the annexes to that agreement
called for the immediate suppression of these residency
cards.
Replaced proof requirements established by Decree No.
2000-419.
Eliminated requirement to produce nationality certificates
and allowed identification agents to distinguish between:
“Ivorians of origin,” who would only need to proffer a
birth certificate and a green national ID card if they
had one to obtain a CNI; and
“adopted Ivorians,” which does not refer to adopted
children, but rather to those who acquired Ivorian
nationality through naturalization, who were required
to produce a naturalization decree to obtain a CNI;
those or who acquired Ivorian nationality through
marriage, who were required to produce proof of
marriage pursuant to civil status laws.
Created a new national ID card of an orange color to
distinguish it from the yellow cards under HouphouëtBoigny and the green cards since Bédié’s time.
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