SIM Verification Procedure for Overseas Pakistanis

Since the SIM re-verification process has been started, Overseas Pakistanis were very curious about verification of their SIMs. Now Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued instructions for SIM verification of overseas Pakistanis. Verification of all SIMs is mandatory but Pakistanis living abroad may adopt any of the following procedure (whichever applicable to them):

For SIMs, present in Pakistan

If you are living abroad but your SIM is present in Pakistan, you can get the ownership of these SIMs changed to a family member who is in Pakistan. Such SIMs along with a relationship should be bought to franchise/service centers of respective operator with request for change in ownership. A proof of relationship with the owner is required for reference.

For SIMs, Operating Overseas on International Roaming

Overseas Pakistanis who have Pakistani SIMs on international roaming don’t have to do anything except only keeping their SIMs active. Your SIM must be ON all the time till it is temporarily verified.

Mobile phone operators will prepare a list of numbers that are ACTIVE on intentional roaming. Preliminary verification of the subscriber with active roaming services will be carried out by respective service provider to assess genuineness of the subscriber.

Overseas Pakistanis may be asked for basic information e.g. CNIC number, mother’s name, date and place of birth, etc. via call to helpline. If preliminary verification is successfully done, CNIC number and SIM registered against it shall be tagged as “Temporarily Verified”. Last date for Biometric verification of these temporarily verified SIMs will be 31 March 2016.

This facility of temporarily verification is not applicable for Pakistani SIMs operating in Afghanistan. However, SIMs on roaming in Afghanistan may be verified by change in ownership.

Others

If you are living abroad and your SIM is not on international roaming or you don't kept your SIM with you and you are also unable to change its ownership to any of your blood relative, you can tell your mobile company the situation. Your SIM will be temporarily blocked/ become unavailable. However you can get your SIM unblocked after verification on your return to Pakistan. Last date for verification of these mobile numbers is also 31 March 2016.

Free Check Biometric Re-verification of Zong, Ufone, Mobilink, Telenor, Warid

Once you have verify your mobile numbers through Bio-metric Re-verification process, most probably you will get a confirmation message from your service provider company. In case you didn't get confirmation message or you just want to counter check/ ensure that your SIM ownership has been properly verified, you can check it free of cost simply dialing a code or sending a message and you will get confirmation.

Free Check Biometric Re-verification

Following are simplest ways of all the 05 mobile service provider companies in Pakistan, to check bio-metric re-verification. No charges applies for this service.

How to Check Biometric Re-verification of Zong

Dial *6622# from your Zong number. You will immediately receive confirmation message that "Moaziz Sarif, Apni SIM Biometric vrify karwane ka shukria." You can also get free unlimited calls, 5000 SMS and 500MB data under Zong Biometric Promo.

Another SMS service 7911 has been launched to check re-verification of Zong SIMs. To check the verified numbers by sending “V” to this short-code 7911.

How to Check Biometric Re-verification of Ufone

Dial *336*1# from your Ufone number. Service reply will be "Dear customer your number 033389001xx is verified."

How to Check Biometric Re-verification of Mobilink Jazz

Send your CNIC No. to 6001 from your Mobilink number. You will get following information in SMS:

Total numbers on CNIC 34001-04500xx-1 = 1

Verified = 1

Un-verified = 0

Verified = 03005900xxx

How to Check Biometric Re-verification of Telenor

Send a blank SMS to 7751. You will confirmation message shortly.

How to Check Biometric Re-verification of Warid

Customer can send message (CNIC) to short-code 789 through primary verified number and in return he will get status of numbers against his/her CNIC along with verification stats. Format of this process is sent to primary verified number via SMS.

Last date of SIM Verification through Biometric Process is 13 April, 2015.

To check how many SIMs are registered on your CNIC, Send your CNIC Number (without dashes) to 668 by SMS. (Example ID Card Format 611234544333)