Over one million people in Qatar have registered themselves in the National Address while the registration process will continue until July 26, 2020.
“The number of registered (individuals and legal persons) is exceeded 1 million. We are inviting public to register their national addresses, through Metrash 2, or the Ministry of Interior website,” said the Ministry of Interior on its Twitter account.
The registration was also available at the Ministry of Interior service centres in the country, but in order to limit spread of the coronavirus, the Ministry urged people to register only online through its website or Metrash2. The registration was started on January 27, 2020 and will continue until July 26. Every applicant is responsible for giving the correct information and there is a QR10,000 fine for giving false information. The fine also applies for not registering during the 6-month period, which ends on July 26. The fine can be reconciled to QR5,000 before reaching the court.
The National Address is the address chosen by the person to correspond with the state or other bodies, and the national address data will include one’s residence address in Qatar, landline and cell phone numbers, e-mail address, and work address for those who work in government or private sector. It will serve many government entities such as the Ministry of Municipality and Environment; the Ministry of Justice; the Supreme Judiciary Council and Planning and Statistics Authority, a senior official had said earlier. The National Address Law was introduced mainly for correspondence, especially for the courts and the Supreme Judicial Council, because many judicial issues were getting delayed, so the new national address law will solve this problem. It came within the framework of the strategic development of e-governance and the completion of the legislative structure necessary for e-government transactions and the transition from the descriptive address to the digital address.w
