Jan­ice Lear­mond-Criqui

jan­icel­criqui@gmail.com

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While reg­is­ter­ing my hus­band on­line, I re­al­ized there are some fun­da­men­tal things one has to pay at­ten­tion to if you want to get your PIN num­ber and pass­word in a time­ly man­ner, oth­er­wise your reg­is­tra­tion be­comes frus­trat­ing if all the re­quire­ments are not met and you start get­ting emails from the tick­et­ing sys­tem.

Here is how you can nav­i­gate the process. Cre­ate a fold­er on your com­put­er to put pic­tures of the ID cards, head­shot with ID card, deed poll (if nec­es­sary), birth cer­tifi­cate (if nec­es­sary).

Be­fore you even at­tempt to start the process, you need to pre­pare the in­for­ma­tion the reg­is­tra­tion re­quires.

· Birth cer­tifi­cate PIN (ap­plic­a­ble to na­tion­als of T&T on­ly). Get out your birth cer­tifi­cate. If you can­not be ver­i­fied by the sys­tem, it will ask for your moth­er’s name which is on the birth cer­tifi­cate.

· Full name and any for­mer name. If there is a name change, make sure you scan the deed poll or oth­er doc­u­men­ta­tion ev­i­denc­ing a change of name. For ex­am­ple, some mar­ried women do a deed poll to change from their maid­en name to their mar­ried name. I did not do this. I have kept my maid­en name.

· Na­tion­al­i­ty at birth and cur­rent na­tion­al­i­ty. If you are a cit­i­zen of T&T se­lect cit­i­zen of T&T.

· Date of birth

· Gen­der

· Oc­cu­pa­tion. Put pro­fes­sion or re­tired

· Tele­phone num­ber(s)

· Email ad­dress. Use your main email but you will need a sec­ond email when cre­at­ing the com­pa­ny ac­count af­ter you get your PIN and pass­word. Mind you, they still send­ing emails to the main one de­spite giv­ing a sec­ond email ad­dress when they are send­ing out no­tices.

· Cur­rent res­i­den­tial ad­dress and postal ad­dress

· The list of com­pa­nies with which you have an as­so­ci­a­tion. This means the com­pa­nies you are in­volved in as a di­rec­tor, sec­re­tary or as­sis­tant sec­re­tary. Go to the Name Search on the lo­gin page and search for the com­pa­nies us­ing their cor­rect spelling and take a note of the com­pa­ny iden­ti­fi­er num­ber. This is IM­POR­TANT!

· Up­load a copy of your birth cer­tifi­cate. A per­son will up­load their birth cer­tifi­cate on­ly if they have ONE form of ID. If a for­eign per­son is reg­is­ter­ing, a field will open up where the birth cer­tifi­cate will be up­loaded. If that is the case then the per­son has to take note of the fol­low­ing: If your birth cer­tifi­cate is not in Eng­lish, you must al­so pro­vide a trans­la­tion from a Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs ap­proved trans­la­tor. The birth cer­tifi­cate and trans­la­tion must be up­loaded as one at­tach­ment.

· Two forms of pho­to ID , eg pass­port, na­tion­al ID card or dri­ver’s per­mit. This is crit­i­cal. I per­son­al­ly don’t like giv­ing out my pass­port in­for­ma­tion to any­one so I al­ways make sure that my dri­ver’s per­mit and na­tion­al ID card are up to date. The pho­tos of the ID must be clear. In­ter­est­ing­ly, the na­tion­al ID has two sides but there is on­ly one field. If you can take the two sides and make one pho­to, I humbly sug­gest it. You don’t want to send the front on­ly to then re­ceive a tick­et telling you to send the back. This will hold up the re­ceiv­ing of your PIN num­ber and pass­words for weeks. The pho­to needs to be less than 100kb else you will get an er­ror mes­sage say­ing that the pho­to is too large.

· Head­shot/self­ie which clear­ly shows one of the sub­mit­ted forms of pho­to ID next to your face.

When tak­ing this pho­to, please en­sure that you smile in­to the cam­era and the ID is clear so when you open the pho­to you can com­fort­ably read the in­for­ma­tion on the ID.

Good luck! Any­one need­ing fur­ther as­sis­tance can send me an email.