If you want to find general information about your origins which is included in the Register of Natural Persons, you should submit your request to the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs.
Competent institution
You should request specific information about your birth and adoption, which is stored in the Birth Register, from the General Registry office in your municipality.
You may request any other specific information about your adoption from the Orphan’s Court in your municipality.
If the requested information is no longer stored by these institutions and has been passed on to the National Archive, these institutions should explain to you how to request the information from the archive.
Examination of your request
In practice, it should not be difficult to obtain the requested data about your origins.
If you want to access information that is restricted and not generally available to the public you should indicate your reasons for obtaining the information in your request. The relevant institution will evaluate your request and decide whether to give you access to such information.
In taking this decision, they will balance your right to know your origins against the privacy of those persons whose information you have requested. Therefore, depending on your specific situation, the institution may deny your request or may only partially fulfil it. Such a decision must contain sufficient reasoning and also indicate where to appeal it and how.
Decision
The institution examining your request must take a decision no later than 30 days from the day it received your signed application or a verbal request. If it denies access to the information you requested, it should explain the reasons for this and indicate how you can appeal the decision. Read more about how to complain.
Fees
Although you have the right to access information about your origins, you may be required to cover the fees for finding or making copies of the documents containing the information requested. Such fees should not exceed the expenses incurred to collect the information.
exception You are entitled to request your data from the Population Register twice a year free of charge.