Identity
The document references the person or fact; it does not create the person by itself.
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Documents and verification
A public hub for understanding Candeia documents, how to verify their authenticity, what a physical or digital representation proves, and where their effects outside Candeia end.
In brief
The essentials
A trustworthy document combines a legible representation, competent source, type, issuer, version, status and a verifiable authenticity mechanism. GOV explains how documents are intended to work; when the service becomes available, issuance, consultation and verification will take place in the competent Sistema Candeia module.
How it works
From the responsible record to presentation
01Competent sourceThe fact or status originates in the responsible registry or module.
02IssuanceA representation receives an identifier, version, issuer, validity information and an authenticity mechanism.
03PresentationThe person shows only what is necessary, in an appropriate digital or physical format.
04VerificationThe verifier checks authenticity and status without turning GOV into a parallel source.
Principles
What makes a document trustworthy
Integrity
Materially relevant changes must be detectable or recorded.
Status
Validity, revocation and replacement must be verifiable when applicable.
Minimisation
Verifying one attribute should not require disclosure of the entire document.
Continuity
A change of format, key or provider must not erase legitimate history.
External truth
Internal validity will never be presented as automatic acceptance by third parties.
Representation and source
A document is not the legal source
The interface, card, PDF, QR code or printout are ways of presenting information. Authority remains with the competent registry or module, with its own chain of authenticity, version and status.
In practice
Choose the right reading
Use the identity page for identification documents, the passport page for the planned travel document, certificates for representations of records, verification to check authenticity/status, and external acceptance to understand precisely what Candeia can — and cannot — claim before third parties.
Limits
Protections and limits
GOV does not issue civil documents or create facts in the Civil Registry.
A visual representation or QR code does not by itself prove authenticity or current validity.
No document is presented as internationally accepted without a real act by the competent counterpart.
Constitutional basis
Read the full text
Consult the related provisions in the Proposed Constitution.
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