Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Guatemalteca (TICG) is Guatemala's

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

 consular identification card also known as the Guatemalan CID card

Consular identification card

Consular identification cards are issued by some governments to their citizens who are living in foreign countries. They are not certifications of legal residence within foreign countries, so CID card holders could be legal or illegal aliens. Issuing travel documents and passports are some of...

. Guatemala began issuing this card in the United States

United States

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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 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.

Bank on California

Bank on California

Bank on California is an initiative started by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on December 12, 2008, to help Californians open a bank account. The program seeks to encourage financial institutions to relax identification requirements when opening a bank account to include Mexican CID...

, a program launched by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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.

External links

Información de la Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Guatemalteca -TICG- Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, República de Guatemala Guatemala Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Información Sin Fronteras (ISF)