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Electronic identity card – CIE

The identity card is a personal identification document valid to identify and circulate in the European Union and in some third countries.

The identity card allows expatriation from Italy to the following countries:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt (organized travel only), Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia (organized travel only), Turkey (organized travel only), Hungary.

The electronic identity card (CIE) is the new identity card in card format; in addition to being an identity document, it allows access to the online services of the Italian Public Administrations.

The CIE may be issued exclusively to Italian citizens who are regularly resident in this consular district, who are already registered in the consular register and whose personal data are already present in the A.I.R.E. (Register of Italians Resident Abroad) of the Ministry of the Interior.

Mandatory requirements before applying for the CIE:

  • Registration in A.I.R.E.
  • Birth certificate already recorded in the civil register of the Municipality of reference.
  • Civil status data (marriage, divorce, civil partnership) must be updated. Please therefore proceed to request the transcription of the same (see Marital status).

Have your residence address updated (see AIRE). Please note that once issued the CIE will not be able to update the address on the card itself.

Possession of the tax code regularly assigned. Failing this, the tax code must be requested by email to consolare.panama@esteri.it (vedi Tax ID code).

1. Temporal validity

The validity of the identity card varies depending on the age of the holder:

  • 3 years for children under 3 years;
  • 5 years for children between 3 and 18 years;
  • 10 years for adults.

2. Method of request

The application for the electronic identity card must be submitted personally by appointment to be made through the portal Prenot@mi. NOTE: Please note that every adult must request a personal appointment and no bookings will be accepted on behalf of other people, even if they belong to the same household, For minors, appointments must be requested directly by the parents.

After the request and once the processing of the same, the compatriot will be called for the acquisition of biometric data and the signature.

In the request for appointment for minor children, parents must indicate in the appropriate section reserved to the notes the full name of the child, always in order to allow the consular office to carry out the check of personal data.

NOTE: In the absence of this information the consular office will be unable to perform the requested service.

3. Appointment and documents to be submitted:

At the appointment the citizen must present himself with the following documents:

1 passport photo, in paper format of the same type as those used for the passport; identification document (Italian passport or identity card); act of consent of both parents in the event that the applicant is a child under 18 years act of consent of both parents

In the event of the death of one of the parents, a copy of the death certificate must be presented (if it is not kept in the records of this consular office).

If it is not possible to obtain the consent of the other parent, it will be necessary to request the issuance of a Decree of the Judge Tutelage.

At the time of the appointment, the consular operator will acquire the photo and, except for children under 12 years, the fingerprints, and the signature, which will be safely recorded within the microchip present in their CIE and not deposited anywhere else.

The CIE shall not include the holder’s marital status or the name of the spouse.

4. Cost

Consular fees must be paid on the day of the appointment in cash. For the cost please see the table (see table consular fees).

Please note that there is a slightly higher cost in case of duplicate for theft or loss.

5. Delivery of identity card

The CIE is printed and then delivered by post to this Embassy, by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato.

Once the CIE is received, the consular office will contact the interested parties by email to the e-mail address provided at the time of the appointment request via the portal  Prenot@mi.

6. Discovery of identity cards

Users are informed that identity cards that have been stolen or lost abroad, in case of discovery, are usually returned to the consular offices in whose district the theft or loss occurred.

Therefore, those who have recently suffered a theft/loss abroad and want to verify if their identity card has been found, should contact this Consular Office for further information.

It should be noted that any withdrawal of these documents may take place at the consular office where the discovery took place, in the following ways:

at the desks of the Consular Office;

  • at the request of the person concerned,
  • by postal service with shipping costs at his expense.

For further information please write to panama.passaporti@esteri.it