NADRA Undertaking Forms: Undertaking A, B, C1, C2 and the Rest Explained (2026 Guide)

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Last Updated: October 2026

NADRA’s Downloads page lists 19 forms under Undertaking, and nothing on it explains them. Five cover most cases: Undertaking A (you have no passport), Undertaking B (no blood relative can vouch for you), C1 and C2 (a name change) and the lost card undertaking. The letters come from NADRA’s Registration Policy, RP-6.0.2, issued on 18 September 2026, which prints Undertakings A to I in full on pages 32 to 42.

This guide reads each form against the policy to say what you swear to, who signs it and who has to attest it. It is a plain-language reading of NADRA’s own text, not legal advice. Your counter or mission decides which version it will accept, so ask before you sign anything.

Which form do you need?

Your situation	The form	Where the policy names it
You live abroad and have no passport, residence permit, work permit or travel document	Undertaking A	Name change, parents’ information, date of birth, address, conversion, reprint and renewal (non-resident citizens only)
No blood relative can vouch for you	Undertaking B, sworn by your witness	Fresh registration (page 10)
You are changing your name	C2 for an adult, C1 for someone under 18	Name change (page 13)
Your card is lost and you cannot hand it in	Undertaking for Lost Card	Reprint and renewal remarks (pages 16 and 18)
A dual national with a foreign passport who wants a POC instead of a NICOP	Undertaking D	Pages 28, 30 and 37
A dual national who obtained a POC by mistake	Undertaking I	Cancellation (page 30)
A foreign national applying for a POC through a Pakistani spouse, step-parent or relative	E, F, G or H, and C3 if the names differ	Pakistan Origin Card (pages 23, 24 and 28)

Undertaking A: no passport

The applicant swears to be a Pakistani national who does not hold the passport of the country they live in, and who cannot produce a passport for one of the reasons printed on the form: they left Pakistan without a passport by an illegal route, they left on a manual passport that has since been lost, their passport has been lost, or another reason they write in. The form also lists family members in and out of Pakistan with their CNIC numbers, and carries two witnesses.

It has a box for use only by an embassy, mission or consulate, and that is where the stamp goes. For a minor the father, mother or guardian signs. The policy lets a non-resident citizen use it, attested by the Pakistani mission, in place of a Pakistani or foreign passport, residence permit, work permit or travel document, so anyone who holds one of those does not need it. NADRA’s older copy on the Downloads page is headed RP.6.0.0 and says NICOP, while the policy’s copy says NICOP / SNICOP. The text is the same. Our NICOP renewal guide shows how little else a renewal asks for.

Undertaking B: no blood relative

This is a notarised statement sworn by the person vouching for you, not by the applicant. The witness states that they have known the applicant since a stated date, that the applicant is their relative, neighbour or friend, that the applicant is a Pakistani citizen, and that the applicant’s father, mother, sister and brother are unregistered, untraceable or not available, or that none of them is alive. The witness also confirms that the particulars in the application, identified by its tracking ID, are correct as far as they know. Two witnesses and a notary sign.

The policy’s fresh-registration table lets an applicant with no blood relative use biometric verification by two ID holders along with Undertaking B, and marks it for what it calls SI cases only. NADRA says such cases may need extra verification and time, and a later remark says an applicant registered on the witnesses’ word that no blood relative is alive cannot have parents and siblings added afterwards. NADRA’s Downloads page also lists a shorter older form, Undertaking (for Only Witness Information / S.I Case), dated 4 June 2025, in which the witness says the applicant is a genuine Pakistani citizen whose particulars are correct for a stated tracking ID, with no blood relative holding a CNIC or NICOP and none living. Our guides to applying for a NICOP and to NADRA attestation cover who may act as a witness.

Name change: C1, C2 and C3

Form	Who signs	What the declaration says
C1	The parents, or the guardian, of a child under 18 on a Form-B, Juvenile Card or NICOP	The parents changed the child’s name from one stated name to another, for a stated reason. They will not be entitled to change or correct it again, and they will change it in the child’s educational and other documents
C2	An adult with a CNIC or NICOP	The same three statements, made by the holder about their own name
C3	A foreign national applying for a POC whose Pakistani and foreign documents show different names	The name was changed while acquiring the nationality of a stated country, the name now appears as stated in the foreign passport, and a name change deed is attached if the whole name changed

All three are notarised and need two witnesses. For a non-resident citizen the policy lists C1 or C2, attested by a Pakistani mission or notarised, among the documents accepted for a name change, beside a name change deed, an S1 form from a mission, or a certificate from Dar-ul-Afta given for a change of religion. It also says an applicant cannot go back to a previous name or change the name a second time, except a female applicant whose name is modified with her husband’s or father’s name. The undertaking asks you to accept that in writing. Our guides to changing your name and to a married woman’s name cover the rule and its exception.

The lost card undertaking

NADRA’s form is headed Undertaking for Lost Card (NICOP / S. CNIC / S. NICOP) and is dated 4 June 2025, though its text also names a plain CNIC. The holder swears to have lost the card, whose number is written in, and promises to return it if it turns up, since the holder cannot keep both cards. The form carries the applicant’s signature and thumbprint, or a parent’s or guardian’s for a minor, and two witnesses who each give a name, CNIC or NICOP number, signature and contact number.

The policy takes a lighter line. For a reprint or renewal the original card is handed in, punched or defaced on the photo and returned, and if the original is not available the applicant submits a system generated undertaking with a signature. So the undertaking may be produced for you at the counter or in the app, while the paper form on the Downloads page asks for two witnesses. Ask your counter or mission which one it wants before you gather witnesses.

Marital status, religion and death

Form	What the signer states	Attestation printed on it
Married Status (CNIC / NICOP)	They are legally married to a named spouse with an ID number, the date of the marriage, and the address where they live with the spouse	Local attorney abroad, a Pakistani mission, or stamp paper for an inland application
Divorced Status	They were legally married to a named spouse on a stated date and are now divorced	The same three options
Widowed Status	They were legally married, the date of the marriage, the date the spouse died, and that they now live with their father or by themselves at a stated address	The same three options
Religion Correction	Two statements on one sheet: that the record shows Islam where the holder’s inherited religion is another, or that the holder has converted to Islam and changed their name	Two witnesses of the same religion
Undertaking for Cancellation of ID card (due to death)	The form is headed Affidavit / Undertaking for Death of Family Members. The signer says a named relative died on a stated date and that the death could not be registered with the concerned department, and asks NADRA to register it	A relative signs as verifier, and the signer adds a signature or thumbprint

The policy’s marital-status table names a marriage certificate for a marriage and a divorce certificate for a divorce, with an affidavit or undertaking accepted for the divorce of a non-Muslim. It does not say when the married, divorced or widowed undertakings are needed, so ask your counter what it wants. For a cancellation after a death the policy asks for a verified death certificate, a manual one where the registration system is not available, so the death affidavit is for a death that has not been registered. Ask NADRA whether it will take it in your case. Our guides to marital status, divorce certificates, death certificates and CNIC cancellation go through each route.

Dual nationals and the Pakistan Origin Card: D, E, F, G, H and I

Form	Who signs	What they declare
D	A dual national who holds a foreign passport	They hold another nationality, have applied for a POC, want their CNIC or NICOP cancelled, and will never claim Pakistani citizenship or the revocation of the cancellation. The form says it is mandatory when a holder of a foreign passport willingly gives up a CNIC or NICOP to keep or obtain a POC
E	A relative of a Pakistani-origin applicant	They personally know the applicant, and state the relationship, where the system cannot verify it
F	The Pakistani or Pakistani-origin spouse of a foreign national	They accept responsibility for any misuse of the POC and any security lapse by the spouse, and will report a divorce with proof so the POC can be cancelled
G	The foreign widow or widower of a Pakistani	The spouse has died, they need to visit or live in Pakistan, they have not remarried, and they will tell NADRA and pay the cancellation fee if they plan to marry again
H	A Pakistani step-parent	They accept responsibility for a foreign step-child’s POC and will report a divorce, so the POC can be cancelled and the children separated from their custody
I	A dual national Pakistani	They never renounced Pakistani citizenship, obtained the POC by mistake through ignorance of their dual nationality rights, and want it cancelled

The policy advises dual national Pakistanis to keep or apply for a NICOP instead of a POC, and asks for Undertaking D only if the holder insists. F is also asked for when a foreign spouse renews, changes or reprints a POC. A POC for a widower of a Pakistani, which G supports, needs the Ministry of Interior’s approval. I can stand in for a resumption letter from the immigration and passport authority when someone who never formally renounced citizenship has a POC cancelled. Our Pakistan Origin Card guide explains who qualifies for one.

Who attests each form

Attestation	Forms
Stamp of a Pakistani embassy, mission or consulate	A
Notary public	B, C1, C2 and C3
A Pakistani mission for a non-resident, an oath commissioner or notary for a resident	E and H
A local attorney abroad, a Pakistani mission, or stamp paper for an inland application	The married, divorced and widowed status undertakings
Two witnesses, with no attestation line printed	The lost card undertaking, D, F, G and I

Where to get the forms

All of them are free downloads on NADRA’s Downloads page, under Undertaking, which runs to two pages. B and C1 to I are image files dated 24 April 2026, and the other forms are dated 4 June 2025. The policy prints the English text of A to I, so you can check a copy you are handed against pages 32 to 42, and the image copies on the Downloads page carry the same titles. Orphanage Registration (Undertaking) in the same list is a different thing: it is NADRA’s registration form for an orphanage, signed by the orphanage’s head, with a section for NADRA’s own use.

The Affidavit category on the same page is a separate list of eight forms: the succession certificate authorisation, family composition in Urdu, Affidavit-C for family composition, Affidavit-D and its deceased-person variant, Affidavit-E for spouse information, the intruder exclusion affidavit and the self-declaration affidavit. Our guides to the succession certificate and to a blocked CNIC read five of them. We have not read Affidavit-C, Affidavit-E or the Urdu family composition form in detail.

Common mistakes

• Signing Undertaking B as the applicant. The witness swears it before a notary, and the applicant does not sign it.
• Using the wrong attestation. A notary stamp does not replace the mission stamp that Undertaking A carries.
• Signing C1 or C2 without meaning it. You promise not to change the name again, and the policy blocks a second change in any case, with one exception for women.
• Mixing up Undertaking B and a B-Form. The B-Form is a child’s registration certificate. Undertaking B is a witness’s statement for an applicant with no blood relative.
• Treating the Downloads list as a list of requirements. The policy says when each form is asked for. A form on the list is not a form you must file.
• Paying for a form. NADRA publishes all of them free, and its own NICOP application form carries a line saying it is not to be sold to applicants.
• Gathering two witnesses for a lost card before asking. The policy speaks of a system generated undertaking, so you may need none.

Sources: the text of Undertakings A to I, the scenarios that call for them and the remarks on lost cards, name changes, dual nationals and cancellation from Registration Policy RP-6.0.2, pages 10 to 18, 23 to 24, 28, 30 and 31 to 42; the other undertakings (witness information, lost card, married, divorced and widowed status, religion correction, the death affidavit and the orphanage form) and the list of affidavits from the Undertaking and Affidavit categories of NADRA’s Downloads page; and the line about not selling the form from NADRA’s NICOP application form on the same page. All read on 2 October 2026.

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