Haiti Identification Card - Carte d'Identite

Here is the Haitian Identification card, called a Carte d'Identite Nationale.

This is the ID card of my grand mother Adrienne Joseph

Every Haitian has a NIF... What is a NIF?

NIF in Haiti means:
- numéro d'immatriculation fiscale
- numéro d'identité fiscale
- numéro d'identification fiscale

It all means the same thing. Here is where it comes from:

The Haitian fiscal identity card was created in 1987 by the Haiti Tax Branch (Direction générale des impôts or DGI), which assigned a fiscal registration number (numéro d'immatriculation fiscale or NIF) to all Haitian citizens and foreigners required to pay tax in Haiti.

The NIF on the fiscal identity card is made up of 10 digits.

What about the Haiti national identification card?

The Haiti national identification card (carte d'identification nationale) was supposed to replace the fiscal identity card. This card was created on 7 July 2005 for the 2006 elections. This card was also supposed to replace the Haiti elector's card, which was issued for the last time for the 2000 elections by the Haitian Provisional Electoral Council (Conseil électoral provisoire d'Haiti)

GOOD NEWS for the Haitian Diaspora... Very soon, Haitians in the diaspora will no longer have to fly to Haiti in order to get a National Identification card... Nope... The Haitian Identification office is coming to a Diaspora city near you...

Read: New Haiti Identification Offices opening soon in Miami and other Diaspora cities

Haiti is launching a new program to register Haitian immigrants who live without documentation in the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Island, and "other countries where Haitian immigrants live..."

Read: New Haiti program to register Haitian immigrants living in Foreign Countries

I woke up early this morning and saw the morning star, it reminded me of my grand mother, Grann Adrienne!

Read: The Morning Star, it Reminded me of my Grand Mother in Haiti

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