By Post

Please send documents required for application and copies of the original documents to the address:

APPLICATION
Police and Border Guard Administration
Sõle 61a
10313 Tallinn

You can read more in detail about documents to be annexed to an application form here.

Conformity of a copy to an original document confirm by your name, signature and date on every page of the copy containing data.

By E-mail

Sign all documents required for application digitally in one container. Digital colour photo and specimen signature must be in .jpg format.

Send the signed container to an address teeninduskeskus@politsei.ee. The subject of an e-mail, please write: „Applying for the Estonian citizenship“.

Instruction for saving and digital signing of the questionnaire.

The Application

The application form must be filled in with block letters and in Estonian language and it shall not contain any corrections. You must use a black pen or ball-point pen. All fields must be filled in (except the fields marked as „TÄIDAB AMETNIK“).

Please confirm the correctness of the data provided in the application by your signature at the bottom of the application form in the prescribed field.

The application forms can be filled in on screen. We recommend you to open the application forms with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You are always welcome to consult about application form and how to fill it in by e-mailing to teeninduskeskus@politsei.ee or calling the customer support telephone 612 3000.

Legal income

Legal income is deemed to be:

• lawfully earned remuneration for work;
• parental benefits;
• unemployment insurance benefits;
• income received from lawful business activities or property;
• pensions;
• scholarships;
• alimony (maintenance support);
• benefits paid by a foreign state;
• subsistence ensured by family members earning legal income.

State fee

The state fee can be paid:

• by bank transfer;
• in Service Offices by debit card (the holder of a debit card has to pay the bank's service charges. More precise information about bank service charges please contact your bank) or in cash;
• at embassies in cash.

Payment by bank transfer from a bank located in a foreign country

When the state fee is paid from a bank located in a foreign state, then the receipt of the transferred sum on the recipient’s account may take 2 weeks. While effecting payment of the state fee from a bank located in a foreign country, it is necessary to know, in addition to the abovementioned, also BIC-code or SWIFT-code of the bank located in Estonia and international bank account number (IBAN) of the state fee account of the Ministry of Finance (Rahandusministeerium).

• BIC-code or SWIFT-code of SEB is EEUHEE2X
• BIC-code or SWIFT-code of Swedbank is HABAEE2X
• BIC-code or SWIFT-code of Danske Bank A/S Estonia Branch is FOREEE2X
• BIC-code or SWIFT-code of Nordea Bank Finland PLC Estonia Branch is NDEAEE2X

International bank account numbers (IBAN) of the state fee account of the Ministry of Finance (Rahandusministeerium) are:

• SEB: EE 89 1010 2200 3479 6011
• Swedbank: EE 93 2200 2210 2377 8606
• Danske Bank A/S Estonia Branch: EE 40 3300 3334 1611 0002
• Nordea Bank Finland PLC Estonia Branch: EE 701700017001577198.

Sample of confirmation

Sample of the confirmation to be submitted

Sample 1 Confirmation of a person with undetermined citizenship


Confirmation of a person who wishes to obtain Estonian citizenship

Herewith I confirm, that I wish continuously to obtain the Estonian citizenship and that I conform with the requirements stipulated in the Citizenship Act.

I certify, that I am a person with undetermined citizenship.

During the period of applying for the Estonian citizenship, within the last year I stayed in Estonia at least 183 days.


…………………….
(name)

……………………..
(date)

…………………………
(signature)

or

Signed digitally


Sample 2 Confirmation of a person who has been released from the citizenship of another country


Confirmation of a person who wishes to obtain Estonian citizenship

Herewith I confirm, that I wish continuously to obtain the Estonian citizenship and that I conform with the requirements stipulated in the Citizenship Act.

I certify, that I have been released from the citizenship of another country.

During the period of applying for the Estonian citizenship, within the last year I stayed in Estonia at least 183 days.


…………………….
(name)

……………………..
(date)

…………………………
(signature)

or

Signed digitally

In addition, please submit a certificate, that you have been released from the citizenship of another country.


Sample 3 Confirmation of a person, who will be released from the citizenship of another country in relation with obtaining of the Estonian citizenship

Confirmation of a person who wishes to obtain Estonian citizenship

Herewith I confirm, that I wish continuously to obtain the Estonian citizenship and that I conform with the requirements stipulated in the Citizenship Act.

I certify, that I shall be released from the citizenship of another country in relation with obtaining of the Estonian citizenship.

During the period of applying for the Estonian citizenship, within the last year I stayed in Estonia at least 183 days.


…………………….
(name)

……………………..
(date)

…………………………
(signature)

or

Signed digitally


In addition, please submit a certificate, that you shall be released from the citizenship of another country in relation with obtaining of the Estonian citizenship.

In a foreign country

Document annexed to an application that is issued in a foreign country has to be translated into Estonian, English or Russian and notarised certification of the translation is required.

The document needs to be certified with an apostille certificate (marginal note) or legalised, excl. in cases, if it has been issued by a country:

• with which Estonia has signed a contract of legal assistance: Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia.
• who are subjects to the Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records, signed at Vienna in 1976: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, France, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.

Additional information can be found at home page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.