Identity Document

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A physical or digital document that asserts one or more identifiers about a party (person, household, or group). Distinct from the identifier itself: the number on a passport is an Identifier; the passport book is an IdentityDocument. Documents have their own lifecycle (issue date, expiry, issuing authority) independent of the identifier value, and the same identifier may appear on successive documents. Distinct from Certificate (a re-issuable extract of a civil-status record under CIEC conventions) and from IdentityCredential (the Verifiable Credential envelope that may attest an IdentityDocument in digital form).

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Properties

Property Type Definition
Identifiers concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Document type string (document-type)
The category of identity document (passport, national ID card, beneficiary card, etc.).
Issued to concept:Party includes Person, Group, Household, Family, Farm
The party (person, household, or group) to whom the document, voucher, or credential is issued.
Issuing authority string The organization or government body that issued the document or credential.
Issuing jurisdiction string
The geographic jurisdiction under which the document or credential was issued, expressed as an ISO 3166-2 subdivision code or ISO 3166-1 country code.
Issue date date The date on which this record or document was issued.
Expiry date date The date on which this record or document expires or becomes invalid.

Evidence

Not yet found in mapped delivery systems.

Not modeled as a distinct entity in the mapped systems, which typically embed issue/expiry dates and authority alongside the identifier value. Introduced here to align with Verifiable Credential envelopes and ICAO 9303 document semantics, and to keep Identifier generic for use on non-party entities such as Location.

Standard Equivalent Match
ICAO Doc 9303 Machine-Readable Travel Document broad
ICAO 9303 distinguishes the document (passport book) from the number it carries, matching the split between IdentityDocument and Identifier.
FHIR R4 DocumentReference broad
FHIR DocumentReference is a generic clinical document reference; IdentityDocument is narrower and focused on documents that bear party identifiers.

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