www.idcam.cm is the only place to go for the online pre-registration for your #Cameroon ID Card.
From MKPD investigation, making lost document if amba terrorists destroy your ID card, It cost 2,000 Frs plus 1,500 Frs for Fiscal stamp, valid for 3 months.
You can call 1550 and talk to the Police if you have some difficulties they may direct you in the right direction. When you call 1550, they do answer in English as well, though the English is not always clear. They talk mostly in French or better still you can go to the ID Card center in Yaounde for the ID number. The center is just beside Hospital de Police not far from Provence.
And they Police launched the new system of ID that would be produced within 48 hours. Below is the required documents needed for the new ID, or renewal.
I have the copy in French, because anglophones don’t share the English version, so it hasn’t circulated as much as the French version. The translation is given below..
A) Required documents for a FIRST TIME NEW Biometric national identity card.
✓ Certificate of nationality (from the Courts)
✓ Certified copy of birth certificate
✓ Copie of married certificate for married women
✓ Evidence of employment status – (If you are an engineer, bring your diploma, If you are a student, bring your Student ID card, etc)
B) If you want to renew your Identity Card
In a case of expiration, you will require ✓ The Expired ID card, ✓ Copy of married certificate for married women, ✓ Evidence of employment status – (If you are an engineer, bring your diploma, If you are a student, bring your Student ID card, etc)
In a case of loss, theft, or deterioration, You will require ✓ Attestation of the declaration of lossed documents, ✓ Photocopy of the lost ID card, ✓ Certified copy of birth certificate. (You do not need nationality again)
In the case of change of parentage ✓ Certified copy of birth certificate, ✓ Extract from the judgment establishing the judgment of parentage, ✓ Old ID, ✓ Copy of married certificate for married women, ✓ Evidence of employment status – (If you are an engineer, bring your diploma, If you are a student, bring your Student ID card, etc)
Note: Online pre-registration at www.idcam.cm
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When you get your ID or any important document, the FIRST thing you should do is take a picture of it on your smart phone, so that you have an electronic copy.. Second thing you must do is photocopy the document and keep the photocopies safe and separate from the original copy so that you can always use the photo copy to make the new documents.
To make lost documents or renew your ID card, you WILL need the photocopy of the old card you lost.
LOST Birth Certificate
If you lost your Birth certificate, make another one AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! You should make your Birth certificates at your local council where you were born, because it is easier to verify your birth, and your parents etc.. The council, (Mayors) are responsible for registering births and marriages etc. But if you no longer live in your local council where you were born, and you cannot travel back there, then you can make a new birth certificate in your new local council where you live, but the process will take longer.
With the new law you can establish your birth certificate anywhere you are resident and civil status secretary upon an authorisation from your place of residence will put your transcribe the information on your old birth certificate.. You see, it helps if you have a photograph or photocopy of your old birth certificate.
If you are doing a birth certificate in a new town, this process takes longer because you may need to provide supporting documents and further evidence to the claims you put down on the new document.. That’s why a photocopy of your old birth certificate is very important.
I hope this information helps. 27 March 2025.
This is the kind of information we should be teaching our children in school, and not how to label a frog or grasshopper or Eauropean History. We should learn how to grow kassava and how to process Garri and kumkum..
Imagine when I was in Class 7 in primary school, around 1995 we were learning about the British Islands.. 
Na who really curse black people? Why is a 12 year old farmer’s son in Momo learning about temperatures in London and seasons in eaurope? 
They even told us about their parliament.. But I did not even know where Yaounde is, or Cameroon parliament 
These are the kind of things every Cameroonian should learn. How to make your ID card, How to reduce corruption, How to be a good citizen, Learn our true history, Etc etc..