Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Guatemalteca (TICG) is
Guatemala's consular identification card also known as the Guatemalan
CID card. Guatemala began issuing this card in the
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in August 2002
[
] following the lead of the Mexican government's foreign consular agents in the U.S. who began lobbying U.S. states, municipalities and financial institutions to accept the
Mexican CID card
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in March 2002.
Unlike Mexico's CID card application process, Guatemala requires a valid Guatemalan passport which is checked against Guatemala’s
central passport database system. Guatemala's passport requires two fingerprints and a photograph and signature.
[
]
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, a program launched by Governor
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in December 2008, encourages financial institutions to accept the Mexican CID, Guatemalan CID and other
CID cards as primary identification for opening bank accounts.
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References
External links
Información de la Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Guatemalteca -TICG-Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, República de Guatemala
Guatemala Tarjeta de Identificación Consular{Dead link, date=January 2020 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Información Sin Fronteras (ISF)
Consular identification cards
Foreign relations of Guatemala