Malawians have been questioning the expiry dates on the national identity cards since images of sample national IDs were first released.
The National Registration Bureau (NRB) has now spoken out on the issue.
According to NRB, the IDs were supposed to be issued after a person turned 16 and with the ID expiring after 10 years.
“This means if you get an ID at 16, it will expire at your 26th birthday.
“Afterwards, it will expire when you turn 36, 46, 56, 66, 76 and so forth,” says the statement signed by NRB spokesperson Norman Fulatira.
Fulatira in the statement observes that Malawians registered at different ages hence all cards have different expiry dates to ensure that they expire when the holder is 26 or 36 or 46 and so forth according to the holder’s current age.
“Those who registered at 22 years old have only four years remaining before their 26th birthday.
“Therefore, their cards will only have four years to expire,” says Fulatira in the statement.
Over 9 million Malawians registered for the national IDs in 2017 and the NRB is currently distributing the IDs.
Kkkkkkkkk koma kumalawi sungankumvese mpaka makhadi kupamga exper kkkkkkkk ndiye osangosiya bwaa mulinazo zambili inu kkkkk
I knew about this IDs b4 coz kumalawi kuno ndikochititsa manyazi. Anthu ochita bwino kale they like to set a money trap on poor malawians, SHAME ON U GUYS
If your face will change in ten years, why not use finger prints, coz finger prints will never change for life mmmmm?
Inu simunaone ndalama ikusiya kugwira ntchoto meaning expired ,,,,,,ndie ID ndichan
Kupusa kwenikweni umbamva za ziiii
Mudayamba mwavapo kut kumene national ID imapanga expire?
don’t worry pple we have already vote someone in 2019 bola zawozo zatheka!!! ine changa exp at 2021″MY FOOT”ZA ZIIIIIII kkkkkkkkkkk
In towns there is no problem but think about the villagers they wont manage to renew them
Imagine there is people in the villages who have 5 to 10 children in a family are they going to manage renewing the IDs? They don’t manage to feed themselves or buy soap for themselves
Government should consider this other wise they will chase their own people in their own country
Anthu akuba.kusonyeza kuti kumalawi kulibe mnzika .why they an ID have expired date ? That’s nonsense .wakeup Malawi.
Kkkkkkk yeah you talking Chimpeni
Zaumbava zanuzo
poor leadership
AAA zalowa ndale izi man
Just want to punish poor Malawians, lets see how much will it cost,for a card which u criticised was at only 50.00
Get out you idiot. Was that an ID? Is a black an identity of a human being? Why don’t you use your head to reason other than your mouth?
Joseph don’t u know that the card had identification particulars?ur the broot!u know nothing by the way how old are u?
Umbava basi…
666
Expiry date ilibe vuto, vuto lili poti munthu azikaperekanso ndalama ngati IDyake yachita xpire. Apapa akonze, otherwise… Mmmmmh.
Everything expires in mw, no wonder ma units amagetsi sanapasidwe validity period
Never that is nonsense lD i never heard expire date,comeon Malawi think before you act,go to RSA and ask the how do they operate their citizens id?
Mr Fulatira, greetings from Nzanzi, what mechanism would you put in place for Malawian abroad, for instance we have almost 3.4 million Malawians based in South Africa.
I was proposing if you may suggest of putting centers in Malawi Embassies.
Thanks for the job well done funso ndi ili a Jehovah Witness akuti bwanji?
Rev Dr Angus Butao
Johannesburg
South Africa
CELL: 0783728832/0843731304
Osangonena kuti ma card anthawi ya kamuzu aja abwelanso
Cashgate malawi
ID expiry date Malawi
Amuna okha okha banja Malawi
Kupha albino Malawi
Blackout Malawi
Ine nikwatira mzulu ku jon komwe kuno cause am tire of this shit. Where is this all nonsense comes from? Kunalibeko zonsezi
Choka iwe, osangokwatira bwanji. Ife dziko lathu timalikonda… Mmmmmh.
Kape wachabe ukufuna kunena chani
Zinawakomera kudya ndalama zopangitsa register agalu amenewa akufuna azadyenso zina
That is nonsense. The country is poor and still want to replace id’s every 10 ten years. Cry my beloved country
am suprised a national ID to get expired? am from zambia,once a person gets its once nd for all unless u loose it u ll be able to replace, no expirely date as if its a voters cards. mmmmm! uwafya
Zakwanu kuZambia usazibweretse kuno kuMalawi.Tisiye aMalawi eni ake tione chochita. Expiry date njofunika… Mmmmmh.
Then you are a sorry state
point of collection”u should learn to understand” a phalombe naimwe ninshi kutumpa
Ndechani chimenecho… Why not usng a language that can be comprehended by others, huh? You who claim2b Zambian koma ukukambanso zaPhalombe, you are misleading us… Mmmmmh.
@enock let chikondi Daniel be are those kind ov pipo we call them yes boss wht ever comes frm rich pipo they think is right bt to ma understanding national ids don’t expire u only renew it whn u lost it so this so called daniel mmmm will never listen so u cant teach an old cow to new tricks let him be guys
thats true.blind followers,thank u
mr Daniel here in zambia when we say phalombe we mean malawians!clear?
Mine is a question to be clarified, what is the aim and the meaning of expiry of national identity card? Does our Government find away of making business from the nationals , please clarify if it with remain free for ever! Cause if it is free remember it will resume the Government funds that could help and improve in our hospitals and our roads! By Gonnamnguyi Msiska. Thank you all!
Boma la lamalawi ndi laziphuphu kufuna kuti gwila mmaso ine ndilibe passport komaso ID iliyonse koma ndine mmalawi basi sindidanda ula kalikonse
It is now understood. Thanks
kodi boma lapenga misala??
NDIYE IFEYO AKU THEBA ZIWAPEZA BWANJI
Aaaa chitupa chopanda address ngati chimenechi ndichantchito yanji?
What will happen if the ID expire and you don’t renew because renewing will attract money. I don’t see many Malawian affording this. Citizenship being expired wow many will not be Malawian
Stupit government and its leaders, what a idiotic exaplanation
mbava zabisala kuseli kwa ma ID
Black girls will be yellow bones in next five years. Anyamata mukhala azibambo in next 10 years. so vuto ndichani? Will it be fair 28yr old man using the face of 18 yrs boy?
Kuwonesa umbuli tu apa nanga finger print yimasinthaso?
Now we start to expire in our own land, how come the citizen get expired in your mama land? This means something else undisclosed let’s Wait and see
IN SAUTH AFRIA ID they dont get expiry date
Ukunama, IDs expires anywhere in the world
iwe usasusane ndi ine sukuziwa kathu my uncle he got SA ID so dont ague with me you know nothing about ID
Taioneni mbuli inanso iyi …. Kut kumenene ID imakhala ndi expiry date?
akapito musatikumbutsepo malemu devis. .tili joz bra ndipo kuno kulibe expired date pa ma ID awo plz osamamgoonetsa makani anu pagulu ayi
Mozambican National ID expires
@kapito ids never expires bra it only expere whn ure dead and I got sa id it only mention date ov issue ur day year ov birth not wht ukukambazo kkkkkk
Ndi zoona ma ID cards or paseport amapanga expiry, amalawi timacedwa kuvesetsa kuzolowera zaulele
Khani sizaulere koma mmamidzimu ngakhale town muli anthu omwe amasowa ndi ya machesi yomwe.ndie anthu ngati amenewa awaganizira motani?
ukuchedwa ndiwe kawina sinanga waonapo Id yomwei ndiye akamukunamiza azako umavomela ukundiuza kuti iweo pofika 2021 udzakhala citizen ya tz kuti uziti mzik izikhala ndi expire kkkkk eish amalawife vito ndi yes boss kumangoveleza zilizonse
Kkkkkkkkkk ok ndavesesa
National ID imachita expir musazanamizidwe
I dont understand the explanation of this article, what happens to driving licenses?
If its 10 years, let it be 10 years expiry time.
This should be corrected. I got this ID when just turned 25, does this mean that this year have to renew it?
Tell me its a joke and kinda of grabbing us.
Wangokula Ndiumbava Bas Cz Expire Akutanthauzanji?Cholinga Tikamazapanga Renew Tizalipile,ngat Ndili Mzika Ndine Mzika Bas, Akut 2021 Umzika Wa Zaka Zitatu Bas? Umzika Ndiumeneo?
Ameneyo ndiye Mbwampini
Wangokula Ndiumbava Bas Cz Expire Akutanthauzanji?Cholinga Tikamazapanga Renew Tizalipile,ngat Ndili Mzika Ndine Mzika Bas, Akut 2021 Umzika Wa Zaka Zitatu Bas? Umzika Ndiumeneo?
Foolish, why doing such evil?
No problem with ID expiry date becoz after ten years one’s face may change hence needs replacement. the only problem I see here is money for renewal.
I wonder some Ids take short period to expire while others are having along period of expiry date.Why is there difference in expiry dates.
They wanted to maintain the interval of 10 years on an individual.
Akunama awa akungofuna kubelapo ndalama zawathu osawuka paja akapanda kuba amadwara
that means if ur 16 expiry date is 2026 and if ur 20 it will be 2026 as well but u will only use it for 6 years unlike the first one who will use it for 10 years
Every initiative happening has revenue aspects attached just because our leaders are too lazy to establish income generation sources. It’s a fact that an individual’s citizenship will never expire unless logical reasons and processes that an individual declares them selves as no longer Malawian. For those who see will notice that renewal of citizenship will attract a fee which shall go to account number 1 and get abused! Malawi is a sorry state under normal circumstances it is the least country that anyone would want to stay!
I wonder if Dyson is really serious, we have had IDs and other related documents,MEC ID,COLLEGE ID,MANEB ID, DRIVING LICENCE,EMPLOYEE ID just to mention but a few.All these have expiary dates,hence attracts a fee on renewal.There you are,shameless neither reviling your own country while portraying stiupidness that none would ever imagine,you are really pathetic!
#Matias hahahaha your reasoning is in a sorry state all those documents you indicated have to expire for example college ID once you graduate it’s not valid. How on earth would someone’s nationality become invalid? Am not convinced with your reasoning it’s too shallow! a preschool can’t even reason like that!
#Matias thats nosense Dyson is very right. WHO will pay for the renewal of IDs?
If at all it will be the ID holder then its vetter we would have stayed without IDs. That will mean the government is robbing its own poor people
Have you ever been at college? college IDs expires when one completes studies to prevent him fron accessing college services like health services
Driver’s license,passports etc do expire but where on earth does the NRC s expire. You mean you will no longer be a Malawian citizen? ??.
Kkkkkkkk some people are very pathetic indeed. Arguing that expiring of an ID renders the holder losing his nationality is very sorry. What happens when one’s passport expires? Does s/he loses the nationality? Our Mozambican counterparts have national ID which become invalid after passage of a prescribed period of time.
#Joseph bring tangible arguments here which ID are you talking about? Do you know that passport is an IF? Comparing national ID and passport is a non starter do you know the requirements for possessing a passport? Do you know that there are alot of people legally possessing malawi passport but they have a different national ID? Ever heard about people holding two passports from different countries? Yet they don’t possess national IDs from both countries? Go to immigration and try to understand what it takes to obtain a passport and find out if holding a Malawian passport conclusively you are a Malawian national…wake up! then why should you renew your national ID if you remain a malawian national upon expiration of your national ID? I can’t see sense in your argument
Kkkkkkkk eish, where on earth would a person hold a passport of another country when he or she doesn’t qualify? Of course a passport is an ID everybody knows that, that is why i brought it up. One holds passports of two different countries if that person qualifies for it in the second country. That is dual citizenship. Therefore our national IDs could also be issued to anyone who have stayed in Malawi for not less than seven years coz they become citizens after that period of time. So i don’t understand your argument.
I see you can’t understand it am not surprised!
@joseph passport and national ids are different just because we didn’t hv ids we were told to go to our chiefs and TA to confirm our citizenship so zat immigration can trust our information we render to them is true and in so doing this ids are part ov those letters we obtain so here is the question is the letter which we collect firm our chiefs expired does the chief tell us whn our citizenship end and I know we are new in this system bt let go to SA idis why are they not expired? wht I know joseph u only renew Ids whn u lost it nt u got the card then u hv to renew it how many times will we renew it. no citizen got expired unless he or she is dead so what if I dont hv money to renew it what will going to happens
and its wrong to campare ids and those ov maneb or any college Ids c those are prescribed tym national ids pipo
Zngobelana ID simakhala Expr date kulikose zatipeza mochedwa et
Ine ndizakhalaineyo malilekufa ndiyekuti ID Yanga ikhalendimalile ndichifukwa can I?
Expiry Date, Is Date Of Your Ended Life.Everyone Know This.
ID does not expire please correct this. We still learning hei
You are selling us perhaps
my face is the same,date of birth the same, id number the same,fingerprints never change.so where are their getting the nonsense from
your face will change my dear after 10 year can’t u see how your face was 10 years ago.
but my fingerprints wont change
btw i cant change reaching an extent tht u cant knw my face on the id
nonsense where in the world have you heard National ID expiring?
Yes my bro every ID had got expired date. Even in lesotho namibia ……
Don’t lie to people. Drivers Licence yes not id.
Its illogical, incorrect to have national IDs expire even if sone where in the world they do expire ask y
Tava kale kuti tidzidzalipira popangitsa renew ndipo ma expiry date akukhala osiyana ena 2021 ena 2029 zikukhala bwanji pamenepo? Tiuuzeni chilungamo tidziwe choona chenicheni haha
Akut omwe azapange expire mu 2021/2019 ndiama Big ma MP and nduna zaBoma….enafe tizaona chochita, welcome to malawi!
Zizaooneka nthawi yomweyo
Kkkkkkkk koma u guys! The truth of the matter is that an ID will be invalid after the holder reaches 36 years of age. Those who registered at 16 will see their ID valid for 10 years. Now when you get another ID at the age of 36, it will be valid until it expires at 46 years of age and so on
Ok man i understand it
But why shld national ID have an expiry date?
ofcoz thus gud though its vry late.We could have known this in 2017