New York: New York City will offer a municipal identity card for all residents, including illegal immigrants, amid a federal-level deadlock over immigration reforms that seeks to provide citizenship to some 11 million undocumented people, including Indians.

The ID card will be issued to all residents of the five NYC boroughs, regardless of their immigration status. The city administration would immediately initiate implementation of the programme, with the goal of launching the new identification card in January 2015.