RAVIP enrolment

Process for registering a person in the National Register of Natural Persons (RNPP). Its purpose is to assign an official, reliable identity to every citizen (issuance of a Personal Identification Number — NPI).

• Birth certificate (mandatory)
• Identity card or LEPI card or driving licence or passport or court authorisation, or child's birth slip + parents' CIP/FID.
• Certificate of nationality or CIP or CNIB or passport of one of the Beninese parents if the child was born abroad
• Or court decision.

This service is governed by the following texts:

• Law no. 2017-08 of 19 July 2017 on the identification of natural persons in the Republic of Benin
• Law no. 2018-26 of 03 August 2018 authorising derogatory civil-status registration in the Republic of Benin
• Law no. 2025-12 of 02 July 2025 amending law no. 2017-08 of 19 June 2017 on the identification of natural persons in the Republic of Benin
• Decree 2018-471 of 10 October 2018 defining the procedures and operation of the administrative framework for derogatory civil-status registration and setting the rules for dematerialisation of records
• Decree no. 2019-072 of 06 March 2019 amending articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 of decree no. 2018-471 of 10 October 2018 defining the procedures and operation of the administrative framework for derogatory civil-status registration and setting the rules for dematerialisation of records
• Decree no. 2020-099 of 26 February 2020 on the Personal Identification Number
• Decree no. 2020-100 of 26 February 2020 implementing the National Register of Natural Persons