Interior Ministry’s Information Systems Department director Brig Saleh Khamis al-Kubaisi (centre) flanked by Brig Ahmed al-Atiq of the Nationality and Travel Documents Department (left) and Mohamed Majid al-Sulaiti from the Interior Ministry’s Public Relations Department announcing details about the new Smart ID cards at a press conference in Doha yesterday. Expatriates can now begin to upgrade their identification cards to highly-secure Smart ID cards. Embedded with a chip, as well as host of security and safety features, the switch to the Smart ID cards by expatriates will remain optional for an indefinite period of time, unlike Qataris for whom it is mandatory,