Documentation to provide for birth registration
Learn here all the details of the documents you need to present to register the birth of your child
Documentation to provide for registration
Registration from the Hospital Center
- Official Declaration Form provided by the administrative staff of the Health Center, in which the declaration of Marriage will be signed if the affiliation is matrimonial, or of Paternity, if the affiliation is non-marital.
- Optional certificate of birth.
- DNI
- Family book if any
The Health Center will send to the Civil Registry all the documents necessary to carry out the birth registration, so it will not be necessary for the parents to go to the Civil Registry unless the documentation sent contains an error, omission or inaccuracy that requires subsequent correction, or , is one of the cases indicated by the legislation of the Civil Registry that require appearance in the same.
Once the registration has been carried out, the Civil Registry will send the parents (preferably electronically) a literal birth certificate with which they can carry out the administrative procedures they require before other administrations.
Face-to-face registration in the Civil Registry
A) Marital children:
- DNI of the person appearing.
- Medical part of the delivery (facilitated in the hospital where it took place).
- ID of the parents, in case the person who appears is not one of them.
- Family Book
B) Non-marital children:
- ID of those appearing.
- Medical part of the delivery (facilitated in the hospital where it took place).
* If the marital status of the mother is married, she must provide a marriage certificate certifying the divorce or legal separation, or prove the de facto separation from the spouse.
C) Births that occurred outside the civil registry where they want to be registered:
- That indicated in sections A) and B), as the case may be, and also:
- DNI or census that proves the domicile of the parents.
- Certificate from the hospital indicating that the registration of the newborn has not been requested.
Late birth registration
- To register births after the deadline, it will be necessary to go to your Civil Registry, where you will be informed of the documentation to present, depending on the case, to proceed with the opening of the corresponding file.
Registration of births of parents with a nationality other than Spanish
- For registration of children whose parents have a nationality other than Spanish, it is necessary that they provide a certificate from the embassy of their country of origin informing about the transmission of the parents' surnames to the newborn according to the legislation of that country.
Registration content
The birth registration shall include:
■ Name given to the born.
■ The time, date and place of birth. In multiple births, if the exact time of each one is not known, the priority between them will be stated or that it has not been possible to determine.
■ If the born is male or female and the name imposed.
■ The parents, when the affiliation is legally established.
■ The number assigned in the file to the part or verification.
■ The time of registration.