New electronic services of Civil Status Department - verification services of digital birth certificates and death certificates, was inaugurated

Lt. Gen. Suleiman Al-Yahya, acting undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for civil status, launched new electronic services for the department on Tuesday using the ministry's Absher platform. These services include those for displaying and verifying digital birth and death certificates for Saudis and foreigners.

Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif, Interior Minister, served as the event's sponsor. It took place in the Ministry of Interior's staff club in Riyadh. Senior officials from the ministry, the National Information Centre, and the Civil Status Department were also present, along with Dr. Esam Al-Wagait, director of the National Information Centre.

The National Information Centre, which is a representative of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), helped to introduce the new services. The digital birth certificate display service, the death certificate issuance and display service, and the digital birth and death certificate verification service were among the new services, according to the Civil Status Department.

While the death certificate issuance service allows male and female citizens and expatriates to register electronically the death of family members, parents, or workers under the sponsorship after being notified electronically by the hospital, the digital birth certificate display service allows male and female citizens and expatriates to view the digital birth certificate of the beneficiary or a member of his family with the option of printing it. Beneficiaries can see the digital death certificate via the death certificate viewing tool and authorise printing of the document for immediate relatives, parents, or sponsored employees.

According to the Civil Status Department, beneficiaries can electronically check the validity of birth and death certificates via the digital birth certificate and death certificate verification programme. It was noted that by connecting into their user accounts on the Absher platform, the beneficiaries may examine the policies and specifications of the new services.