NADRA Domicile Verification: Who Issues It and How to Check (2026 Guide)

NADRA

Last Updated: October 2026

NADRA does not issue domicile certificates, and its website lists no domicile service, fee or form. A domicile comes from a provincial or Islamabad administration, and the checks differ by region. Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad each publish an online check. In Sindh a contractor’s page serves some districts. Balochistan announced an e-domicile system with NADRA in July 2026, which reports said was not yet fully operational. NADRA’s own part is small: its Registration Policy accepts a verified domicile as supporting evidence for some applications.

This guide sets out who issues a domicile in each region and the official check where one exists, where NADRA asks for a domicile, and what we could not confirm. We did not run a lookup on any of the tools, because each asks for a real identity number.

Who issues a domicile, and how to check one

Region	Who issues it, and where to apply	Official online check
Punjab	The district administration, through the Domicile Management System that the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) developed. Lahore’s district page describes two ways to apply, at a facilitation centre or in the system’s app, with the printed certificate going to the tehsil office for signature.	domicile.punjab.gov.pk has a verification box that asks for a CNIC number, under a label that gives 15 January 2015 as its start date.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	The provincial government’s E-Services Citizens Facilitation Portal at cfc.kp.gov.pk, whose domicile checklist covers a new domicile, a duplicate, a cancellation or NOC, and a correction.	The same portal’s Domicile Online Verification page, which asks for a CNIC, Form-B or domicile number.
Islamabad	ICT Administration. Its page names an Assistant Commissioner (Saddar) as the dealing authority and the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 as the relevant law. Applicants appear in person at a Citizen Facilitation Centre, and the page gives a fee of Rs 200 and 7 days.	The City Islamabad app: the Domicile tab, then Verification, then your CNIC number.
Sindh	Deputy commissioners issue the domicile and the separate PRC. PITB’s December 2023 announcement of the Sindh e-Services app lists Domicile and PRC among the services it offers.	No provincial check found. DomiSys, a private contractor that runs the system in some districts, publishes a status page at verify.domisys.com.pk that takes a CNIC number. It is not a government site.
Balochistan	The Home Department, with NADRA, under the Integrated Domicile Management System announced on 13 July 2026. Reports say that once it is fully operational people can apply at any NADRA centre, at a deputy commissioner’s office or on the Pak-ID platform.	None published that we found.

Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir are not covered, because we did not check them.

The three online checks, step by step

Islamabad

1. Download the City Islamabad app. ICT’s page links its Google Play and App Store listings.
2. Open the app and register an account.
3. Go to the Domicile tab and choose Verification.
4. Enter your CNIC number and press Verify.

ICT’s page does not say what the result screen shows.

Punjab

1. Open domicile.punjab.gov.pk.
2. Type your CNIC number into the box that reads Please enter CNIC No.
3. Submit it.

The label above the box gives 15 January 2015 as a start date, and the page does not explain what the check covers before that.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

1. Open cfc.kp.gov.pk.
2. In the menu, choose Misc., then Domicile Online Verification.
3. Enter the CNIC, Form-B or domicile number and press Verify.

Where NADRA asks for a domicile

NADRA’s website offers no domicile service. We searched its identity document pages, fee structure, downloads, ecosystem, digital identity, About PakID and media centre pages, and the scripts that carry its FAQs, on 3 October 2026. The only mention on those pages is a count: the page for its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Citizen Centre project lists e-Domicile among its statistics, at 1,525. A domicile does appear in the Registration Policy RP-6.0.2, issued on 18 September 2026, as a document NADRA accepts. We searched the policy, not every PDF on the Downloads page.

Change	What RP-6.0.2 says	Our guide
Date of birth	A verified domicile or local certificate is among the government documents accepted as proof of date of birth (page 14).	Changing the date of birth
Address, temporary or permanent	A verified local certificate, domicile or PRC is among the proofs accepted (page 15).	Changing your address
POC application	A domicile is among the documents accepted from an applicant who was once a Pakistani citizen (page 23).	Pakistan Origin Card

The policy does not say how a domicile is verified, so ask at the counter which proof it will take before you travel.

Domicile, PRC and local certificate

Three names turn up on forms. According to a Sindh High Court order of 1 December 2021, a domicile certificate is issued under section 17 of the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 and the Pakistan Citizenship Rules, 1952, and ICT’s page lists the same Act. A PRC is a separate Sindh certificate under the Sindh Permanent Residence Certificate Rules, 1971, and the order says a domicile is at best evidence for a PRC and not a precondition for one. Balochistan’s new system covers an e-local certificate alongside the e-domicile, and NADRA’s policy lists local certificate, domicile and PRC together as address proof. If a form asks for one of them, ask which.

What we could not confirm

• What the result screens show. Each tool asks for a real identity number, so we did not run a lookup.
• A provincial check in Sindh. We did not read the domicile steps in the Sindh e-Services app. DomiSys’s own site says it is linked with six districts and lists the deputy commissioner offices of Hyderabad, Tando Allahyar, Badin, Dadu and Jacobabad among them.
• Whether Balochistan’s system is operating, and what check it will offer.
• Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, which we did not check.
• Fees and documents. Islamabad’s Rs 200 and 7 days come from ICT’s page. This guide is about checking a certificate, so it does not cover fees or documents elsewhere.

Common mistakes

• Asking NADRA to verify a domicile. Its website lists no such service, so use the issuing government’s check.
• Running a certificate through another region’s tool. Each of the three official tools belongs to one government, and none of their pages says it covers certificates issued elsewhere.
• Reading no record as proof of a fake. Punjab’s label gives a start date, and DomiSys serves only some districts.
• Treating a PRC as a domicile. They are issued under different rules, so ask which one the form wants.
• Expecting to hold a domicile from two places. ICT’s page says the law allows one city only, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s checklist asks for an NOC from anyone surrendering a domicile of another city or province.
• Waiting for Balochistan’s e-domicile in the Pak ID app. We found no sign of it in the app’s release notes on 3 October 2026.

Sources: the document requirements from NADRA’s RP-6.0.2, the e-Domicile count from its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Citizen Centre project page, and the app history from the Pak Identity App Store listing; Islamabad from ICT Administration’s domicile page; Punjab from the PITB Domicile Management System page, the verification page and Lahore’s district page; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from the government’s verification page; Sindh from PITB’s e-Services app announcement of 20 December 2023, the DomiSys site and a Sindh High Court order (CP D-1170 of 2021); and Balochistan from APP, Dawn and ProPakistani. All read on 3 October 2026, and the tools are described as their pages present them.

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