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9 June 2005

CIV100217.FE

Côte d'Ivoire: Update to CIV100041.FE of 27 May 2005 on identity documents, specifically the national identity card, birth certificate and certificate of nationality; the process for obtaining each of those identity documents and the information contained in each of them (May 2005)
Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa

The attached 26 May 2005 correspondence from the Embassy of the Côte d'Ivoire in Canada provides information on the documents required to obtain identity cards (national identity card, birth certificate and certificate of nationality) and on the names of the various services that provide them. Copies of each of the above-mentioned identity documents, issued by the Ivorian government authorities, are also attached.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection.

Attachments

Embassy of the Côte d'Ivoire, Ottawa 26 May 2005. Correspondence, 1 p.

Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire. 28 March 2005. Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Circonscription d'état civil, Ottawa. "Extrait du registre des actes de l'État Civil pour l'année 2005," 1 p.

_____. 19 January 1990. City of Abidjan, Commune du Plateau. "Extrait du registre des actes de l'état civil pour l'année 1965," 1 p.

_____. 6 December 2004. Ministère de la Justice, Tribunal de première instance d'E Yopougon. "Certificat de nationalité ivoirienne," 1 p.

_____. n.d. Ministère de la Sécurité intérieure. "Carte nationale d'identité," 1 p.

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