The national organization for civil registration is an Iranian government organization which operates within the ministry of interior. Its responsibility is to collect the country’s population statistics and information.
This organization is responsible for preparing basic registration information such as births and deaths, marriages and is also responsible for issuing identity documents. In general, responsibilities of the organization for civil registration include:
- Recording vital events
- Management of identity and nationality documents of Iranians
- The production and publication of population statistics and trends of Iran
Innovations and electronic services
The organization for civil registration has, in accordance with executive guidelines and related laws, created the unified system for the identity of Iranians on the 23rd of august 2022, in order to facilitate the provision of smart services to the population and businesses as part of the Organization’s smart services gateway and the unified national gateway for government smart services.
The services provided by the system include:
Logins the Unified Iranian Identity Portal facilitates login and identity verification for accessing services within the SAHIM gateway Accessing this gateway from the Iranian digital identity portal or the My Government Portal can be done through this system. This allows for the organizational services gateway to be connected to the national gateway.
Family information database:
by using this service the user could view their family information which includes parents, spouse, and children and should there be any inconsistencies they could submit the edits to be reviewed and implemented.
National Smart Identity Card Registration:
This service will be used for the pre-registration for the request of identity cards. Users can complete the application online, providing all necessary information. The system then locates a conveniently located services office with available capacity and schedules an appointment to receive the physical card. Finally, the fees for the national identity card will be received from the user by redirecting them to a payment gateway.
Address Change Registration:
As the central address repository for government bodies, the Organization for Civil Registration offers this service for users to update their residential address. By doing so, after two hours the new information would be registered in the organization’s address database and will be used for address inquiries. his updated information will be used for all future address inquiries by government institutions.
Statistical data access:
The user could view the basic statistics produced for society at large and should they need a set of specific basic statistics they could register the request so that such statistics would be produced online and presented to the user.
Newborn Birth Registration:
parents could register the requests for providing identity documents for newborn children. This request can be performed after the information of the newborn is sent from the health ministry to the organization for civil registration.
Newborn Naming Service:
This service streamlines the selection of a name for newborn. Browse the list of approved names or, if you have a unique choice in mind, submit it for review by a dedicated committee.
The interactive name system:
This interactive platform empowers to
choose the perfect name for newborn:
Consultation for choosing names will be done online and in an interactive manner.
Re-issuing identity documents:
This service allows for the registration of the request to re-issue old identity documents, identity documents without photos, lost identity documents and to change identity information. Other complementary procedures should be done at government services offices. The user can become aware of the status of their request by SMS and by referring to the requests segment in the SAHIM gateway.
Found documents search:
searching the identity documents that have been recovered by the civil registration organization.
Changing name and surname:
In this segment the user could register their request to change their name or surname, and then receive a tracking code.
Issuing Certificate of Marital Status:
In this section the certificate of being unmarried is issued.
Issuing transcript of marriage and divorce of Iranian citizens outside Iran:
The request to issue the transcript of marriage and divorce of Iranian citizens outside Iran is in this section.
Registering Undocumented Marriages:
This service allows the registration of marriages that were not previously documented through official affidavits from the married parties.
Issuing transcript of death for Iranians:
users can use the SAHIM system and by selecting the issue death transcript option they will be directed to the relevant forms and can register and track the status of their request. Issuing transcript of death for non-Iranians
Age verification committee:
For changing name Issuing permits to provide civil registration services: requests to Issue permits to provide civil registration services in government services offices for real and legal persons
Issuing licenses for technical managers of government services offices:
request to Issue licenses for technical managers of government services offices
Dispute resolution committees:
request for dispute resolution committees to resolve disputes related to identity documents and national population database
Tracking:
tracking registered requests, viewing the status of each request, and performing the required activities for each request such as providing necessary documents or payment of registration fees.