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The Macau Resident Identity Card (Chinese: 澳門居民身份證; Portuguese: Bilhete de Identidade de Residente) or BIR is an official identity card issued by the Identification Services Bureau of Macau. There are two types of Resident Identity Cards: one for permanent residents and one for non-permanent residents.
The bureau is responsible for civil and criminal identification of Macau residents, handling resident identity cards and travel documents, and dealing with requests relating to the nationality and the right of abode of residents. [2]
Residence permit has a citizen identification number in the same format as resident identity card. This is the first time that the Chinese government ever assigns a number to residents of these places. [5] The address codes of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for the identification number are 810000, 820000 and 830000 respectively.
They are required to register for Macau Resident Identity Cards, eligible for welfare benefits, and able to vote in regional elections. Chinese nationals with territorial right of abode are eligible to hold Macao Special Administrative Region passports , stand for office in the Legislative Assembly , and can serve as principal officials of the ...
Macau SAR passports are only issued by the Identification Services Bureau in Macau. [3] An applicant must fill out an application form, possess a Macau SAR Permanent Resident Identity Card and two recent 1½-inch colour photos along with (if replacing an old passport) their prior Macau SAR Passport.
The Macao Special Administrative Region Travel Permit (Portuguese: Título de Viagem da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau, Chinese: 澳門特別行政區旅行證) is a biometric international travel document issued to non-permanent residents of Macao SAR holding Chinese nationality, who also possess a Macao SAR Non-Permanent Resident Identity Card, and are not eligible for any other ...
The validity period for the card is 10 years (over 18 years old) or 5 years (under 18 years old). [4] [5] In contrast, the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Resident (Non-Chinese Citizen) is issued to foreign citizens with permanent residency in Hong Kong and Macau for traveling to mainland China for short-term personal purposes ...
He said that for the initial run of the scheme, holders of permanent and non-permanent Macau Resident Identity Cards could receive 5,000 and 3,000 patacas respectively. [1] More than 11,000 people who qualified for Macau Resident Identity Card applied for one after the scheme was announced, hoping to receive money.