Rwanda National ID Application for Diaspora Rwandans Without an NPR Number — Gusaba Indangamuntu ku Banyarwanda baba mu Mahanga Badafite Umubare wa NPR

Candidate selection

GOV-3288 ("GovSchema Standard Research", 2026-07-16) scouted Rwanda's National ID vertical (Rwanda was at 4/6: Passport, DMV, Business Formation, Visa modelled; Taxes and National ID open) and left this candidate as a disclosed, ready-to-author backlog item (GOV-3295), which this cycle (GOV-3298) picked up and completed.

NIDA's ordinary domestic ID service requires a pre-issued NPR (National Population Register) number — assigned in person inside Rwanda — which is a dead end on its own for a diaspora applicant who has never been registered. Rwanda's Taxes vertical was re-confirmed a dead end this same cycle: RRA's etax.rra.gov.rw/myrra.rra.gov.rw are login-only for every individual personal-income-tax filing category, with no downloadable PDF return form found.

Reaching the live wizard

The deep-link URL alone (https://irembo.gov.rw/user/citizen/service/nida/nid_diaspora_without_npr_revamp) redirects to Irembo's generic all-services page when fetched cold — it appears to depend on client-side navigation state, not a bare GET. The real path (walked live with Playwright + Chromium, waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' plus explicit settle delays, since this is an Angular SPA with continuous background requests that never reach networkidle):

1. https://irembo.gov.rw/home/citizen/all_services — the public service catalog, unauthenticated.
2. Click the "Gusaba Indangamuntu" service card (an Angular (click) handler with no plain href, requires a real click event, not a link goto).
3. A mat-dialog service-selection modal opens, containing an ng-select sub-service picker (an ngx-select component, not a native <select>) with three options once its own async content finishes loading:
   • "Gusaba indangamuntu ku banyarwanda baba mu mahanga badafite umubare wa NPR" (this schema's target)
   • "Gusaba Indangamuntu" (the ordinary domestic pathway, NPR-gated)
   • "Kwishyurira indangamuntu (mu buryo bwihariye)" (a special-arrangement payment variant, not screened this cycle)
4. Selecting the first option shows a service-preview panel: processing time 30 minutes, fee RWF 500, 3 required documents, provided by NIDA.
5. Clicking "Saba" (Apply) navigates to the exact URL cited in source.url above — confirming the deep link is real, just not directly fetchable without first establishing this client-side navigation state.

Extraction technique

Every field name in schema.json is a real Angular formcontrolname attribute read directly from the live DOM via document.querySelectorAll('[formcontrolname]'), not inferred from visible labels alone. Two genuine requiredWhen/visibleWhen cascades were confirmed live by toggling the relevant control and diffing the DOM/visible document checklist before and after, rather than assumed from static markup:

1. Birth-country cascade. Selecting "Rwanda" in the first locationCountryFormControl reveals a required locationDistrictFormControl (Akarere/district picker). Selecting any other country (tested with Uganda) instead reveals a required free-text city-of-birth field in the same position. Confirmed by reading document.querySelectorAll('[formcontrolname]') before and after each selection and diffing the control list.
2. Civil-status cascade. Selecting "Arubatse" (married) in civilStatusFormControl reveals a required spouseName text field (and an unrequired spouseNationality country picker) not present for any other value. Independently, toggling through all five civil-status values (Arubatse/Ingaragu/Uwatandukanye n'uwo bashakanye/ Umupfakazi(Gabo)/Umupfakazi(Gore)) and re-reading the "Imigereka" (attachments) checklist each time showed a 4th checklist item ("Civil Status document") appearing for every value except Ingaragu (single) — modelled as requiredWhen civilStatus notEquals SINGLE.
3. Passport-details cascade. Toggling havePassportFormControl between "Yego" (yes) and "Oya" (no) revealed/hid four fields (passportNumberFormControl, dateOfIssueFormControl, expiryDateFormControl, and a second locationCountryFormControl instance for place of issue) — confirmed the same diffing way.

Live required-field validation. Clicking "Ibikurikira" (Next) with every field left blank produced a live mat-error "Uyu mwanya ni ngombwa." (this field is required) message under each of the twelve asterisked fields — independently corroborating every required: true field in schema.json beyond the mere presence of an asterisk in the label.

Genuine server-side photo validation. The applicantPhoto document upload was tested with a synthetic solid-grey JPEG generated via the sharp npm package. The two plain identity-document-copy uploads (identityOrTravelDocumentCopy, residenceCountryIdCopy) accepted this file without complaint, but the photo upload specifically was rejected with a live error explaining the required composition (white background, centered face, eyes open and forward-facing) — confirming this endpoint runs genuine image-content validation, not just file-type/extension checking, the same class of finding already made for tz/immigration/passport-application's photo upload. This gate is why the session was not advanced past step 1 ("Dosiye isaba") into steps 2 ("Incamake"/Summary) and 3 ("Kwishyura"/Payment) — fabricating a passing photo, or advancing toward an actual payment step, was out of scope. Steps 2 and 3 are therefore not modelled in this schema version; Incamake is understood (per the wizard's own step labels and this registry's experience with structurally similar wizards) to be a read-only review of already-entered data rather than a source of new fields, but this was not directly observed this cycle and is disclosed as such rather than asserted.

civilStatusFormControl's five options were read directly from the live ng-select dropdown panel and are modelled as a closed enum. professionFormControl and the various locationCountryFormControl instances are backed by much larger external reference lists — searching "Umukozi" in the occupation picker alone returned nine distinct bank/civil-service/embassy/UN-related entries — and are modelled as free-text string fields per this registry's established convention for such large external-list-backed selectors (see tz/immigration/passport-application's birthCountry/visitCountry fields for precedent).

Disclosed judgment calls

• Only step 1 ("Dosiye isaba") is modelled. Steps 2 and 3 were not reached this cycle (see the photo-validation gate above); this is disclosed as an accepted scope boundary rather than silently omitted, matching this registry's precedent for tz/immigration/passport-application stopping short of its own Declaration/Payment/Complete steps.
• spouseNationality has no requiredWhen, only visibleWhen — the live form shows no asterisk on this field even when visible (married), unlike its sibling spouseName, which does carry one.
• birthDistrict/birthCity are mutually exclusive via requiredWhen/equals+notEquals on the same birthCountry field — exactly one of the two is ever shown/required at a time, confirmed live.
• heightCm validation bounds (30–250) are a sanity range this registry applies by convention for human height in centimetres; the live form itself does not print an explicit numeric range.
• The international phone widget (ngx-intl-tel-input) defaults to Rwanda's +250 country code but is a genuine international input — a diaspora applicant is not restricted to a Rwandan number.

Validation

• node tools/validate.mjs — 502/502 documents pass (501 prior + this one).
• node tools/validate-ajv.mjs — 502/502 documents validate against the v0.3 meta-schema.
• node tools/verify-sources.mjs --base origin/main — confirms the cited source URL.
• Conformance fixtures under conformance/rw/irembo/nida-diaspora-application/1.0.0/: valid fixtures covering both the Rwanda/foreign birth-country branches and both civil status branches (married-with-document, single-without-document), plus mutation-control fixtures each raising exactly one error.

GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Republic of Rwanda, NIDA, or Irembo. This schema does not file the application itself; the live source (irembo.gov.rw) is always authoritative.