🆔 New format for ARC/APRC number is not accepted--testing and reporting thread

[slawa]

We were saying this since November 2018, when details were released publicly for the first time!

MoI changed the ID Number format

According to unnamed government sources in: http://m.focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201811210022.aspx the numbers 7,8 and 9 will replace the second letter in the ARC/APRC numbers to denote the cardholder’s gender, as male, female or transgender, … that’s not going to work, right? Sites use the second number in their validation right now, and that will expect a 1 or 2

MoI changed the ID Number format

If that goes through with 7,8,9 then they can just stop. It will make the mess even worse. The problem is not that on the second character is a letter, but that it is not a 1 or 2 as defined in the ID standard! The second character is for gender only and they try to squeeze information about origin of foreigners in there too. Why is it necessary to identify a resident as foreigner just by the ID number? This is the only thing that lets local companies discriminate against alien residents. Tho…