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Estonia - Apply Identification Card for Immobile Person (ID Card)

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ProcedureEdit

By post

  1. You can apply for a ID-card and passport together by post, if less than 2 years have passed since applying for the previous passport and capturing fingerprints.
  2. Conformity of a copy to an original document confirm by your name, signature and date on every page of the copy containing data.
  3. Please send documents required for application and copies of the original documents to the address:

APPLICATION

Police and Border Guard Administration

Sle 61a

10313 Tallinn



By e-mail

  1. You can apply for the ID-card by an e-mail, if you hold a valid ID-card.
  2. You can apply for a ID-card and passport together by e-mail, if less than 2 years have passed since applying for the previous passport and capturing fingerprints, and if you hold a valid ID-card.
  3. Sign all documents required for application digitally in one folder. Digital colour photo (minimum size is 480?600 pixels) and specimen signature must be in .jpg format.
  4. Send the signed folder to: [email protected]. For the subject, please write: "Application for passport and/or ID-card".


Collecting the ID card

  1. The authorised representative must be able to present an identity document.
  • Additional documents (if these were not submitted upon application):
    • the applicants written approval that the representative authorised by the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority may receive his or her ID-card;
    • authorisation document of the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority;
    • identity document of the authorised representative;
    • confirmation of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority that the applicants state of health does not enable to appeal continuously personally to the Service Office.



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Required DocumentsEdit

  • An application form (possible to fill in on a computer screen; to print out and fill in by own hand).
  • Coloured photograph with dimensions of 40x50 mm.
  • Document certifying that the state fee have been paid.
  • Document proving state of health of the applicant (medical certificate that confirms permanent immobility).


If application is submitted by the representative authorised by the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority, then additionally it is necessary to submit:

  • the applicants written approval that the authorised representative may submit his or her application and to receive this document;
  • authorisation document of the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority;
  • identity document of the authorised representative;
  • confirmation of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority that the applicants state of health does not enable to appeal continuously personally to the Service Office;
  • act on checking the applicants identity (being prepared by the authorized representative).


Additional documents:

  • if the applicant has moderate, severe or profound disability and favourable conditions of paying the state fee apply to him or her, please submit the document certifying the applicants disability (for example, medial expert decision, pension certificate);
  • if the applicant has changed his or her personal data (for example, name) in a foreign country and changed personal data are not entered to the Estonian population register, please submit document proving change of applicants personal data (for example, marriage certificate);


Additional documents (collecting the ID card) if these were not submitted upon application:

  • the applicants written approval that the representative authorised by the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority may receive his or her ID-card;
  • authorisation document of the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority;
  • identity document of the authorised representative;
  • confirmation of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority that the applicants state of health does not enable to appeal continuously personally to the Service Office.


Requirements for the photograph

It must be possible to identify a person on the basis of a photo unequivocally.

  • A person must be depicted at a photo:
    • en face,
    • having neutral expression and closed mouth,
    • without headgear,
    • with eyes open and look has to be directed towards camera lens.
  • It has to be a colour photo, by size of 40 x 50 mm.
  • Area between chin and top of head must form 70-80% of the vertical height of the photo.
  • Glasses are allowed, if eyes are not covered by spectacle frames and there are no gleams of light from reflection of glasses.
  • Photo has to be taken within 6 months before submitting an application.
  • Hair may not cover face nor cause shades on face.
  • Photo may not have fingerprints, scratches or any other defects on it.
  • Colour gamma of the photo must have natural spectre (may not be overexposed nor underexposed).
  • Background of the photo must be flat, mono-colour, of bright colour (commendatory colours are light blue, beige, light brown, light grey or white) and in contrast with colour of face and hair.
  • Red-eye effect on the photo is not allowed are also its removal by means of the software is forbidden.

More detailed requirements set to the photo can be found in Government of the Republic of Estonia regulation.

Proportions of the taken photos can be compared by means of a template that can be found here. By printing of the template, we ask not to change the scale. The document photo can be taken in the majority of Service Offices with the exception of Otep and Elva.

Photo taken in a photo booth is digital and it can be used in all Service Offices, by applications sent by post or by e-mail within 14 days.

Photo can be taken in photo booth of the Service Office free of charge.

By applying for a document for a child being below the age of three years it is easier to take a photo by a photographer than in photo booth. If necessary, ask for additional information or assistance from customer service official.



Office Locations & ContactsEdit

Emergency call number - 110 (24 hours a day)

Client information telephone - +372 612 3000 (M-F 8.00-18.00)


Police and Border Guard Board

Prnu mnt 139

15060 TALLINN

telephone 612 3300

fax +372 612 3009

[email protected]


North Prefecture

Prnu mnt 139

15028 TALLINN

telephone +372 612 4000

fax 612 4009

[email protected]


South Prefecture

Riia 132

50096 TARTU

telephone +372 730 8800

fax 730 8809

[email protected]


East Prefecture

Rahu 38

41588 JHVI

telephone +372 337 2200

fax 337 2209

[email protected]


West Prefecture

Pikk 18

80089 PRNU

telephone +372 444 6400

fax 444 6409

[email protected]


Follow link to view Service Points of Citizenship and Migration Bureau of the Prefecture: https://www.politsei.ee/en/kontakt/kmb/index.dot



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Processing TimeEdit

ID-card of the person whose state of health does not enable to appeal to the Service Office continuously, is issued only to the representative authorised by the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority within 30 days in the Service Office marked in the application form.



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InstructionsEdit

If you are continuously unable to appeal to the Service Offices in order to submit an application due to your state of health:

  • you can apply for replacement of the ID-card by post or by e-mail;
  • the application for the ID-card can be submitted by representative who is authorised by the head of the rural municipality government, city government or guardianship authority.



Required InformationEdit

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1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.



Need for the DocumentEdit

An identification document or ID-card is a mandatory identity document for Estonian citizens and citizens of European Union residing permanently in Estonia. In addition to regular identification of a person, an ID-card can also be used for establishing one's identity in electronic environment and for giving one's digital signature. Within the European Union, an ID-card can also be used by the citizens of Estonia and European Union as a travel document.

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