What documents are required for issuing an identity card for the first time to a child separated from their parents who is not under guardianship or curatorship and who resides with relatives or other third parties?

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The application for the issuance of an identity card to a child separated from their parents, including one placed in a family-type placement service, with the exception of the guardianship/curatorship service, or in a residential-type placement service, is submitted by the territorial guardianship authority within whose territorial competence the child’s whereabouts or place of placement is located, with the mandatory presence of the child, at any identity document issuance service, including those located in the multifunctional centres of the Public Services Agency.

When submitting the application, the representative of the territorial guardianship authority presents, as the case may be, the following documents: 

  1. the child’s birth certificate. The presentation of the birth certificate is not mandatory in the cases provided for in Note 2;

  2. the service card or the personal identity document. The presentation of the identity document is not mandatory in the cases provided for in Note 1; 

  3. the order of the territorial guardianship authority establishing the status of a child temporarily left without parental care or of a child left without parental care. 

  4. the order of the territorial guardianship authority on placing the child in the respective social placement service; 

  5. the request of the territorial guardianship authority regarding the issuance of the identity card in the child’s name and the powers of representation of the child. The service of issuing the first identity card is provided free of charge within the maximum period established for the provision of that service.