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Jan 8, 2010
ICA doesn't assign race but only records it
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I REFER to last Saturday's Forum Online letter by Ms Clair Elaine Jerusha Devan, 'Can ICA be more accommodative on race?' On Dec 28, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) announced that parents are required to declare the race of their newborn child on the Birth Report Form with effect from Jan 2.
The introduction of this requirement offers parents of inter-racial marriages the flexibility and choice to decide and declare their child's race upon birth registration.
The ICA would like to clarify that it does not assign a person's race but only records the information as declared that is reasonably believed to be factual. Parents of mixed-race marriages will now have the option to decide if the child should follow the race of the father, mother or an acceptable mixed race in our record.
The information will be recorded provisionally until the child turns 15 years old and is required to register for an identity card.
Chia Hui Keng (Ms)
Head, Public & Internal Communications Branch
Corporate Communications Division
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
ICA doesn't assign race but only records it
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I REFER to last Saturday's Forum Online letter by Ms Clair Elaine Jerusha Devan, 'Can ICA be more accommodative on race?' On Dec 28, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) announced that parents are required to declare the race of their newborn child on the Birth Report Form with effect from Jan 2.
The introduction of this requirement offers parents of inter-racial marriages the flexibility and choice to decide and declare their child's race upon birth registration.
The ICA would like to clarify that it does not assign a person's race but only records the information as declared that is reasonably believed to be factual. Parents of mixed-race marriages will now have the option to decide if the child should follow the race of the father, mother or an acceptable mixed race in our record.
The information will be recorded provisionally until the child turns 15 years old and is required to register for an identity card.
Chia Hui Keng (Ms)
Head, Public & Internal Communications Branch
Corporate Communications Division
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
