Earth Citizenship Registry

What is the Earth Citizenship Registry?

The Earth Citizenship Registry, or simply ECR, is an independent organization that records people as being citizens of Earth by their own free choice and admission. The Registry assigns each registered individual a personal number and records their personal details such as names, date & place of birth, etc. to the extent that is required to prove identity and record the individual's registration.

The goal of the ECR is to increase awareness of the fact that every person is inhabiting the same planet and foster global peace, understanding and unity.

The ERC does not care about, nor records details such as religion, sexual preferences, criminal records or race as these details are not considered relevant to an individual's status as Earth citizen.

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Why register as an Earth citizen?

Registration as an Earth citizen with the Earth Citizenship Registry is entirely optional. There are many potential reasons why one would want to register, such as:

You consider yourself a globally oriented person;
You have friends across the world;
You believe in one united human race;
You wish to improve global peace, understanding & unity;
Just for fun;

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What does it mean to be registered?

All of the registered individuals hold at least the following beliefs:

We should all strive for global peace, understanding & unity;
We all have the right to register as a citizen of Earth;
We all have a sense of identity which includes being part of Earth;

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What Registration Types exist?

The Earth Citizenship Registry has three types of registration that people can apply for. These are:

Site (under construction)

The individual is registered only as a user on the earth-citizenship.net website. Neither a registration card was issued, nor a formal registration of Earth citizenship was recorded.

Basic

The individual was formally registered as an Earth citizen by the ECR.

submission of partially blanked copies of the national ID card or passport;

Please note! We do NOT require your National ID number, Social Security number, Document Number or any similar national identification number/code. As such, you can blank those out. Just make sure your first name(s), last name, sex, birthdate and birthplace are readable as well as the document's expiry date.

Verified (currently unavailable)

The individual was formally registered as an Earth citizen and issued a physical registration card if they wanted one, based on:

submission of a certified true copy of the, partially blanked, national ID card or passport; -OR-
visual inspection of the original national ID card or passport by an ECR staff member and submission to the ECR of the relevant information on that same document by said staff member;
payment of a small processing fee for the issuance of the physical registration card if applicable;

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Why do you charge a processing fee and how much is it?

We are an independent organisation and have limited funds. Similar to how most national governments charge for ID cards, drivers licenses & other official documents, we also charge a small processing fee to cover the costs for the physical card.

For example, we use the fee to pay for administrative costs such as postage, verification costs & production of the actual registration card.

There are currently several levels of fees applicable:

Site registration: free
Basic registration: free
Verified registration: free
Registration card (unavailable), first issue: € 15,-
Registration card (unavailable), renewal: € 10,-
Registration card (unavailable), re-issue of lost or stolen card: € 15,-

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What is a certified true copy?

A certified true copy of a document is a copy of the original document made by a notary that includes a statement of the notary that the copy is the same as the original.

Certified true copies that are submitted to the Earth Citizenship Registry as proof of identity should be drafted in the original language and include an English translation. The translation should be afixed to the certified true copy by the notary, by use of a stamp, seal, ribbon or other device in such a manner that would damage the documents upon removal.

In all cases, the original language text in the original document is leading, not the English translation.

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What is a legalized document?

For the purposes of submitting a document to the Earth Citizenship Registry, a legalized document is any document that:

has affixed to it an apostille of a state that is a party to the Apostille convention -OR-
in case the country is not party to the Apostille convention: has been authenticated or certified by the original document's issuing country (usually the country's Foreign Affairs ministry), as described in "Legalization (international law)".

For example:

A national citizen wishes to submit a legalized, certified true copy of his passport to the Earth Citizenship Registry.

First, he would request a notary to create a certified true copy (including English translation) of the passport. He would then submit the resulting document to the local Foreign Affairs bureau.

Once the Foreign Affairs bureau has legalized the document, he would submit the now legalized, certified true copy to the Earth Citizenship Registry.

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How do I register?

Once the Registry opens up for public registration, simply click the "Register now!" button on the front page.

You will then be asked a number of questions and be given the opportunity to select the type of application you wish to use. All relevant information on how to complete your registration and what documents to provide to the ECR will be listed on the registration page.

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Why do you want copies of my ID card/passport?

Though the ECR does not provide proof of identity to 3rd parties, nor issues proof of identity or travel documents to registered individuals, we wish to have an accurate identification of registered individuals for the Registry to be meaningful. For this reason, we provide different types of registration which provide more or less validation of actual identity.

Registered individuals can start at the simplest registration level and upgrade their registration status at any time until they reach the top registration tier.

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What information do you store about me?

For each registered individual, the Earth Citizenship Registry stores:

ECR number, as issued by the ECR;
Surname;
Given names;
Date of birth;
Place of birth;
Nationality at time of registration;
Sex;
A passport photo;

IMPORTANT - The proof of identity documents submitted by the registered individual to the ECR, are securely destroyed immediately after being used to verify the individual's identity and the ECR registration being approved;

For each ECR registration card issued, the Earth Citizenship Registry stores:

Document number;
Date of issue;
Date of expiry;
Current document status (issued, retracted, lost, stolen);
A digital copy of your most recently issued registration card;

How long is this information stored?

Personal information such as your ECR number, names, birth date & place, nationality and sex are stored until you decide to revoke your registration.

Your passport photo will be stored until your registration card is issued, after which it will be deleted from our systems. When a new card needs to be issued, a current photo will need to be provided.

A digital copy of your issued registration card is kept in our systems until you either cancel your registration, renew your card or up to one year after date of expiry. Whichever comes first.

For every registration card ever issued, we keep the document number, date of issue, date of expiry and current status (issues, retracted, lost, stolen).

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How do you use my information?

All registered individual's personal information is stored purely for registration purposes and will not now, nor ever be provided to third parties.

You can consider registration with the Earth Citizenship Registry similar to being registered to a local sports club for example.

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Do you provide information to law enforcement?

The ECR will never provide any details to law enforcement officials unless specifically required to do so under European law. Usually this will require a court order.

We'd also like to point out that we have only a limited amount of information on registrered individuals in the first place.

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How is my information stored?

The ECR securely stores all its information offline, except for information required for the operation of its online services such as your username.

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