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Identity card for foreigners ("Carné de Identidad para Extranjeros"), Republic of Cuba

Object/Artifact

A small stapled identity booklet, printed in black: "REPÚBLICA DE CUBA" across the top, the Cuban national coat of arms (shield with key, rising sun, and royal palm, flanked by oak and laurel branches beneath a Phrygian cap on a fasces) at center, and "CARNE DE IDENTIDAD / PARA EXTRANJEROS" below. Only the front cover is shown.

Identity card for foreigners ("Carné de Identidad para Extranjeros"), Republic of Cuba Identity card for foreigners ("Carné de Identidad para Extranjeros"), Republic of Cuba

2025.11.5

2025.11

Purchase

2/17/1983

1980s

Maker / Issuing authority: Republic of Cuba — issued by the Cuban state's identification/immigration authority (Ministry of the Interior; today the Dirección de Identificación, Inmigración y Extranjería).

"REPÚBLICA DE CUBA"; Cuban coat of arms; "CARNE DE IDENTIDAD PARA EXTRANJEROS." Interior not recorded.

Materials: Printed card-stock/light-board booklet cover (stapled binding). Technique: Offset/letterpress-printed paperboard booklet cover.

Good

Alexey Klimenko

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use

Document type: the Carné de Identidad para Extranjeros is the foreigner's counterpart to the Cuban citizen's Carné de Identidad, issued to non-citizens residing in Cuba by the Interior Ministry's identification/immigration authority.