Register a Child Eligible for Fostering
This service enables issuing identity documents for children of unknown parentage or an unknown father for the first time. They are also granted a form to get a birth certificate, passport, and ID card in collaboration with the Royal Oman Police, in addition to the ability to change or add the family name or request a replacement for a lost document.
Ministry of Social Development
Required documents
- Copy of the ID card or passport
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Service fees Show
Fee for issuing identity documentsFee to be paid for issuing identity documents.
5
Service steps
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1
Submitting the request
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2
Processing the request
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3
Approving the request
Special conditions
- The child must be born in the Sultanate of Oman to unknown parents.
- The child must be born in the Sultanate of Oman to an unknown father and a known Omani mother.
- The child must be born outside the Sultanate of Oman to an Omani mother and an unknown father, with a final court ruling confirming the lack of paternal lineage.
- The child must be an orphan or deprived of parental or extended family care (up to the fourth degree) due to reasons such as the death of parents or guardians, abandonment, parental separation, imprisonment of one or both parents, or the lack of any relatives willing to take responsibility.
- The child is assigned the family name (tribe) of the head of the foster family after getting a written commitment from the family.
- If a foster family adopts two children of the same gender (either two boys or two girls), they will have the same first name and the same foster father's name, but their third and fourth names will differ, and they will be assigned to the same family name (tribe).
- The foster mother’s fictitious name recorded on the birth certificate will include her first name, with the second and third names changed, followed by her tribe name.
- If the foster child has an unknown father, the biological mother’s real name will be recorded in the birth certificate.
- If the child is fostered by a single woman, the child is given her tribe name. The first name should be selected to ensure it does not match the name of the foster mother or any of her relatives.
