Register a Bulgarian Children Birth Born in Abroad : mfa.bg
Organization : Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
Facility : Register a Bulgarian Children Birth Born in Abroad
Country : Bulgaria
Website : https://www.mfa.bg/en/services-travel/consular-services/consular-services-abroad/civil-status
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How to Register a Bulgarian Children Birth Born in Abroad?
** Registration in the Republic of Bulgaria of the birth of children of Bulgarian citizen(s) born abroad based on documents issued by local authorities.
Related / Similar Facility : Bulgarian Consular Official Abroad Civil Marriage
** Citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria residing abroad are under the obligation to bring or send to the Bulgarian diplomatic or consular mission in the relevant country, within six months after a local authority draws up a birth record for their newborn child, a certified copy or excerpt of the document, together with an application indicating their permanent address in the Republic of Bulgaria.
** Alternatively, citizens may bring the legalized birth record directly to the relevant Bulgarian municipality.
** The birth record shall be accompanied by a certified translation into Bulgarian made by a Bulgarian diplomatic or consular representative or by a translation company. The signature of the Bulgarian translator is certified by a Bulgarian notary.
** If the document is issued in a state wherewith the Republic of Bulgaria has not concluded a legal assistance treaty explicitly waiving the requirement for legalization, the document shall be legalized through an apostille certification in accordance with Hague Convention No. 12 or certified through a stamp of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the relevant state, which shall then be certified by the Bulgarian diplomatic or consular mission in that country.
** A local birth record does not need to be legalized if issued in a state wherewith Bulgaria has concluded a legal assistance treaty explicitly waiving the requirement for legalization.
** Parents shall submit a passport application for their child after obtaining from the relevant municipality a Bulgarian birth certificate with a Personal Identification Number entered therein.
** You can find detailed information on the states which are parties to the Convention, as well as on each country’s authorities issuing apostilles, on the following website: www.hcch.net
** The municipality where the child’s birth is to be registered shall be the municipality where the mother’s permanent address is, or – in case the mother is not a Bulgarian citizen – the municipality where the father’s permanent address is.
How To Register Bulgarian Citizens Living Abroad in Population Registers?
** Assignment of Personal Identification Numbers and registration of Bulgarian citizens living abroad in the population registers. Every Bulgarian citizen has a Personal Identification Number (PIN) – a unique number unequivocally identifying each individual.
** All newborn children obtain PINs, including those born abroad, after they are registered in the population registers in the municipality where their parents’ permanent address is.
** The municipality shall issue a birth certificate to every newborn child, with a PIN indicated therein, based on a birth record drawn up by a local civil registry authority, which shall be translated into Bulgarian and certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
** The foreign document shall be delivered to the civil registry office of the relevant Bulgarian municipality in person, via an authorised person or via the diplomatic and consular missions of the Republic of Bulgaria abroad.
** A PIN shall also be assigned to any person who has obtained Bulgarian citizenship by virtue of his/her origin or by naturalisation, after he/she is registered with the Bulgarian municipality where his/her permanent address is.
** Any such person shall present at the relevant municipality a certified copy of a certificate of Bulgarian citizenship obtained, as issued by the Bulgarian Citizenship Directorate of the Ministry of Justice, together with an application for choice of a permanent address in the Republic of Bulgaria.
** A PIN shall be assigned to anyone who has restored his/her Bulgarian citizenship and chosen a permanent address in the Republic of Bulgaria.
** Anyone who had a PIN before he/she was released of his/her Bulgarian citizenship shall have his/her PIN restored upon the restoration of his/her citizenship.
** A PIN shall also be assigned to those who left the Republic of Bulgaria before the Uniform System of Civil Registration and Administrative Servicing of the Population (known by its Bulgarian acronym as ESGRAON) was introduced in 1977.
** Before that, they shall mandatorily undergo the process of ascertainment of Bulgarian citizenship with the Bulgarian Citizenship Directorate of the Ministry of Justice. The certificate issued by that Directorate shall be valid for one year.
** The above groups of citizens shall be subject to civil registration with the relevant municipalities where their permanent address in the Republic of Bulgaria is.
** A personal registration file (PRF) and an entry into the Population National Data Base (the electronic version of the PRF) shall be created in the relevant municipality.