MATRCULA CONSULAR MEXICAN CONSULAR ID CARD

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MATRÍCULA CONSULAR (MEXICAN CONSULAR ID CARD)
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
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Index

• Background
• Evolution
• Issuance Requirements
• Statistics
• Mexican Consular ID Card
• Model
• Issuance Process
• Security Provisions
• Conclusion

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Background(Consular ID)

• The Matrícula Consular or Consular
  Identification Card is the official record for an
  individual living abroad.

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Background(Consular ID)

• Matrícula Consular de Alta Seguridad (or MCAS,
  for it's initials in Spanish) means High Security
  Consular Registration Document. As such, it is
  the official record for Mexican individuals
  living abroad.
• Consular registration services also include
  notary, birth, death, and marriage registration
  services. In Mexican consular practice a
  certificate of each registration service is given
  to the petitioner as a proof of record.

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I. Background (Origin of the Consular ID)

• This practice goes back legally to the Regulation
  of the Mexican Consular of 1871, it means that
  Matricula Consular has more than 133 years in
  Mexican consular practice
• around the world.

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I. Background (Purpose of the Consular ID)

• The purpose of consular registration is to enable
  consular officers to provide protection and
  access to consular services, as well as to help
  relatives and authorities of the sending state to
  locate their nationals abroad.

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I. Background (Purpose of the Consular ID)

• Consular registration of Mexican nationals is
  very helpful tool for Mexican consulates to
  comply with the functions recognized by the
  Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. This
  registration facilitates the access to protection
  and consular services, since the certificate
  issued accordingly is considered as evidence of
  Mexican nationality.

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I. Background (International Law)

• The practice of consular registration has been
  recognized by international law. Consular posts
  of every country around the world exercise this
  service. Consular Registration Cards are the
  legal proof of record of such registration.
• Essentially, the identity document issued by
  Mexican consulates to Mexican nationals is not
  significantly different in nature from other
  types of identity documents, such as passports.

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I. Background (United States Practice)

• The U.S. consular offices also provide these
  consular registration services for their
  nationals who live abroad. The principal purpose
  of this service, quoting Roberta S. Jacobson,
  Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
  the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs,
  testifying before the U.S. Congress (June 26,
  2003), is ...to create an official record of
  U.S. citizens which will enable consular and
  diplomatic officers to furnish promptly and
  efficiently all services which are the inherent
  right and privilege of such citizenship.

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I. Background (United States Practice)

• Furthermore, the Department of Sate views
  foreign consular identification cards as a
  possible tool for facilitating consular
  notification by accountable law enforcement
  officials a foreign consular identification card
  is a means to identify an individual as a foreign
  national.

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I. Background (International Law)

• Like many other official documents, the MCAS has
  evolved over the years. Originally it had the
  form of a certificate. In the middle of the 20th
  century these certificates became smaller,
  portable documents with pictures. During the last
  two decades of the 20th century, it took a form
  similar to that of drivers licenses, which
  included more security features. The current
  version, now a couple of years old, has many more
  security features.

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I. Background

• The Regulations of the Mexican Consular
  Identification Card (Reglamento de Matrícula
  Consular) was published in Mexico on May 12, 2005
  in order to secure it expedition.
• Currently, the MCAS has become an important means
  of identification for Mexican nationals living
  abroad, particularly since these documents became
  portable documents with a picture (similar to
  drivers licenses).

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II. Evolution
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Notebook
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ID with digitalized photo
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ID with digitalized photo
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High SecurityConsular Identification Card
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III. Issuance Requirements

• There are 4 basic requirements that the applicant
  must fulfill in order to obtain a MCAS, based in
  our regulation
• Proof of nationality
• Any of the following documents are accepted
  Mexican birth certificate, Mexican Passport, or
  certificate of Mexican naturalization.

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III. Issuance Requirements

• Proof of Identity
• Any official identifications issued by a Mexican
  or foreign authority are accepted. For instance
  Mexican or US passports, drivers licenses, State
  ID Cards, US green cards or INS working
  permissions, Mexican Voters Registration ID Card,
  official school records or police clearance
  report with a cancelled picture.

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III. Issuance Requirements

• Proof of establishment (address within the
  consular circumscription)
• Any of the following documents utilities bills,
  any official ID with the address included (i.e.
  drivers licenses) and pieces of official
  correspondence (i.e. US or Mexican Social
  Security, US Revenue Service, etc.).
• Issuance Fee Payment
• The applicant must pay 27 U.S. dollars fee for
  issuance of the MCAS.

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IV. Statistics (Consular Net in USA)
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IV. Statistics
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IV. Statistics (Acceptance of the Consular ID in
USA)
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V. Consular ID Card

• Main characteristics of the High Security
  Consular ID Card (MCAS)
• Visual and hidden security provisions to avoid
  falsifications.
• Supported by a centralized system to avoid
  duplications and confirm the authenticity of
  required documents and information.
• Validated against the Stop List Data Base.
• Robust verification procedure of nationality and
  identity.
• The procedures and requirements were homogenized
  to those of the Mexican High Security Passport
  System.
• Bi-dimensional Bar Code (PDF417) and Optical
  Character Recognition (OCR).
• Adding index fingerprint to the current
  Biometric elements.
• Digital Files with the citizenship and proof of
  Identity documents.

Starting Aug-2005
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VI. Model
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Mexican Consulates in USA 4 in Canada
Consulates
Consular ID Card System
Consular ID Data Base
Stop List Data Base
Voter Registration ID Card (IFE) Data Base
Central SITE
Stop List Data Base System
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VII. Issuance Process (Consular ID Card Issuance)
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VII. Issuance Process (Stop List Verification)
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VIII. Security Provisions (able to be seen)
Photograph cancelled with Advantage technology
Security laminate
ME X I CO
SRE
SRE ultraviolet logos
1750550
Matricula Consular Consular ID
Fixed Scrambled Indicia
Foliated Supplies
Codified fixed text in the front
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VIII. Security Provisions (able to be seen)
Micro Lines
High security lines design
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VIII. Security Provisions (able to be seen)
Ultraviolet text in security laminate
Micro text line
band over bi-dimensional ID bar code PDF 417
Optical Character Recognition (ICAO)
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VIII. Security Provisions (able to be seen)
High definition bank alike security tracing
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VIII. Security Provisions (hidden)
BACK
IMAGE
IMAGE
IMAGE
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VIII. Security Provisions (hidden)

• The system takes variable information from the
  document and generates a codified image that
  protects the identity of the person and/or the
  information inside the document.
• The protection is generated at the time the
  document is being printed.

Scrambled Indicia fixed text and graphics
printed on both sides of the teslin blanks
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VIII.Security Provisions (summary)

• Hidden security provisions
• Distribution of flexible codifiers
• 2002 400,000
• 2003 249,000
• 2004 1,000
• Through the Mexican consulates in the United
  States 650,000 codifiers were given to
• Banks (approximately 40 different ones).
• Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  (BICE).
• Police departments.
• Airlines officers.
• Border Patrol, among others.
• The consular ID in Mexico is accepted as official

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IX. Conclusions

• The Matricula Consular is a dynamic document,
  that has withstand the passing of the years and
  will remain as a key component in the efforts of
  the Mexican government to establish a
  communication link with its nationals worldwide.

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IX. Conclusions

• Opponents claim
• It is not advisable to accept foreign
  government-issued documents to verify customer
  identity. FALSE
• The MCAS confers a type of legal immigration
  status. FALSE
• It is only requested by illegals in order to
  build a status in the US. FALSE
• By issuing these cards, the authority help their
  nationals to conduct businesses in the US and
  promotes the creation of a quasi-legal status.
  FALSE
• Underlying documentation used to obtain a
  Matricula Consular is not properly authenticated.
  It relies on the verification by the consular
  official. FALSE

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IX. Conclusions

• It is possible for an individual to create
  multiple identities. FALSE
• The MCAS threatens public safety because in some
  cases the police departments do not conduct
  background checks, concealing past criminal
  activity. FALSE
• Criminals can use false identities to commit
  crimes such as money laundering and alien
  smuggling. FALSE
• It creates an opportunity for terrorist to move
  freely in the US. FALSE
• It is possible to get a MCAS not being a Mexican
  citizen. FALSE