IS-ADP-MINOR-01

• Adoption license or foreign recognition certificate
• Child's birth certificate
• Evidence of adoptive parent's Icelandic citizenship
• Child's age at adoption date (to confirm under 18)

Additional for age 12-17 adoptees with foreign citizenship:

• Child's current foreign passport or nationality certificate (establishing existing foreign citizenship)
• Written citizenship consent document (samþykki) signed by child
• Documentation that consent was given voluntarily and without duress (sýslumaður officer presence)

Citizenship acquisition is automatic upon adoption recognition. Administrative delay relates to:

• Consent collection process (age 12+ cases): typically a few days to a few weeks
• Þjóðskrá registration: prompt once adoption and consent documentation complete

• Sýslumaður adoption license/recognition fee
• No separate UTL citizenship application fee
• Þjóðskrá registration: standard fee

• L. 49/1982 — §2 a adoption citizenship introduced
• L. 145/2013 — consent requirements for age 12+ codified explicitly
• L. 61/2018 EIF 2018-07-01 — gender-neutral rewrite; §2 a substantive framework retained

Pending reforms