Software boost as ID card registration rush continues

A software application that helps people to register for the new ID card in the UAE was added to the Arabian Business website on Thursday.

The official Emirates Identity Authority website has been struggling to cope with the huge number of people trying to access the pre-registration software so Arabian Business has stepped in to help.

With an estimated 700,000 Emiratis and expatriates still to register before the deadline of Dec. 31, our website is one of a number that has added the software needed to ease the process in a bid to divert traffic from the official website.

"About 1.3 million people visited the site in October. Such heavy traffic resulted in complaints of 'non availability' of the online application form," Thamer Rashid Al Qasimi, planning director and project management director, EIDA said in comments published in UAE daily Gulf News on Thursday.

To download the software, CLICK HERE.

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