How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
Ok. Ran it by the missus. She said, and no offence intended, that someone who has absolutely no documents raises various suspicions.
How has she done anything since 1993? Rented a house, dealt with public services, bought and sold vehicles or land.
There are innumerable instances where some form of ID would have been needed, and the very few reasons left for not having documents now, aged late 40s, include her not being ethnic Khmer. Exactly how far north/east in Ratanakiri is she from?
I don't know who you are or how long you've been here, but if you're OK with her bonifides, then all good. A dose of healthy skepticism doesn't go astray, however.
Phum / khum are the words for village / commune
How has she done anything since 1993? Rented a house, dealt with public services, bought and sold vehicles or land.
There are innumerable instances where some form of ID would have been needed, and the very few reasons left for not having documents now, aged late 40s, include her not being ethnic Khmer. Exactly how far north/east in Ratanakiri is she from?
I don't know who you are or how long you've been here, but if you're OK with her bonifides, then all good. A dose of healthy skepticism doesn't go astray, however.
Phum / khum are the words for village / commune
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Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
She is an extremely poor person at the very low end here and I'm helping her family. I don't think it's that unusual for those people.epidemiks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:39 pm Ok. Ran it by the missus. She said, and no offence intended, that someone who has absolutely no documents raises various suspicions.
How has she done anything since 1993? Rented a house, dealt with public services, bought and sold vehicles or land.
There are innumerable instances where some form of ID would have been needed, and the very few reasons left for not having documents now, aged late 40s, include her not being ethnic Khmer. Exactly how far north/east in Ratanakiri is she from?
I don't know who you are or how long you've been here, but if you're OK with her bonifides, then all good. A dose of healthy skepticism doesn't go astray, however.
Phum / khum are the words for village / commune
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Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
^this
Gotsta be billshot. No id card at 47 years old. No meah puhm knows her? Mum is too old? If mum is that old, why doesn't the meah phum know mum?
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Gotsta be billshot. No id card at 47 years old. No meah puhm knows her? Mum is too old? If mum is that old, why doesn't the meah phum know mum?
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If she lived in a poor place I seriously doubt there would be records from the 1970's. They might have been migrants too, who knows. Clinic in Ratanakiri in 1970? I don't know, a jungle village sounds more likely.pczz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:10 pm Sounds like the village chief is holding his hand out. in theory when her family moved to the village he should have registered them along with any ID they produced so there should be a record held at the village level of when they arrived and where they came from. He has to report his up to district level through the commune so if the village chief is not co-operative try the commune office an then as PSD says next stop is the admin office. If she knows where she was born I would try that first. Unless her mum gave birth at home there should be a birth record at the clinic, but 1970 was a very dodgy time
Thanks pczz and Kiwi for the advice about going to the office. Will do that next.
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Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
They do know them, but she hasn't lived in the village for like 25 years, and the Mee Phum said he does not have any proof that she is indeed the child of her mother. They could have been marginalized people in that community.Barang chgout wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:07 pm ^this
Gotsta be billshot. No id card at 47 years old. No meah puhm knows her? Mum is too old? If mum is that old, why doesn't the meah phum know mum?
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Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
Quite possible. But it's a reasonably unusual situation.superferret wrote:She is an extremely poor person at the very low end here and I'm helping her family. I don't think it's that unusual for those people.epidemiks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:39 pm Ok. Ran it by the missus. She said, and no offence intended, that someone who has absolutely no documents raises various suspicions.
How has she done anything since 1993? Rented a house, dealt with public services, bought and sold vehicles or land.
There are innumerable instances where some form of ID would have been needed, and the very few reasons left for not having documents now, aged late 40s, include her not being ethnic Khmer. Exactly how far north/east in Ratanakiri is she from?
I don't know who you are or how long you've been here, but if you're OK with her bonifides, then all good. A dose of healthy skepticism doesn't go astray, however.
Phum / khum are the words for village / commune
Just offering a Khmer perspective. Even the extremely poor in my wife's village have documents. No offence intended, as I said.
Re: How to get identity card for a Cambodian?
Just because she came from a poor place does not mean there were no records and no clinic, evena rudimentary one. The French were in charge of Cambodia and they are really anally retentive about paperwork. When the local village record book fof births and deaths is filled up it goes to district level and then to PP, so if the records got out of the village they could be in the ministry in PP either on computer or waiting to go onto computer or maybe just collecting dust. it really will depend on how determined the officials concerned were in that region to maintain the systems or destroy it. One of the historians in here will know a lot more about the ditrict at that time than we do.superferret wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:12 pmIf she lived in a poor place I seriously doubt there would be records from the 1970's. They might have been migrants too, who knows. Clinic in Ratanakiri in 1970? I don't know, a jungle village sounds more likely.pczz wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:10 pm Sounds like the village chief is holding his hand out. in theory when her family moved to the village he should have registered them along with any ID they produced so there should be a record held at the village level of when they arrived and where they came from. He has to report his up to district level through the commune so if the village chief is not co-operative try the commune office an then as PSD says next stop is the admin office. If she knows where she was born I would try that first. Unless her mum gave birth at home there should be a birth record at the clinic, but 1970 was a very dodgy time
Thanks pczz and Kiwi for the advice about going to the office. Will do that next.
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