Update to Response to Information Request HRV20965.E of 18 July 1995 on whether the authorities made it mandatory in late 1993 or early 1994 for every individual over 18 to obtain a new personal identity card and, if so, on when this requirement was officially proclaimed, on the deadline for people to obtain the new personal identification cards, on the process to obtain the new cards, on the information provided in order to obtain the new cards, and on what people did with their old Yugoslav identity cards [HRV21937.E]

For information on the above-mentioned subjects, please consult the attachments.

For related information, please consult Responses to Information Requests HRV21879.E and HRV21936.E of 22 September 1995.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachments


Citizenship and Immigration Canada, International Service Group (ISG), Hull. 13 September 1995. Letter including telex from the Canadian mission in Vienna.

_____. 6 September 1995. Letter including telex from the Canadian mission in Zagreb.