# Citizen Identity Continuity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Identity / Citizenship **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in civil registration and digital identity ## Definition **Citizen Identity Continuity** is maintenance of authoritative identity, provenance, status, and recoverability across changes in credentials, registries, providers, or political institutions. ## Continuity Significance It is a prerequisite for any later continuity of citizenship or benefits. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Civil registration, eID, refugee identity restoration, and digital credentials address living-citizen identity continuity. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Current systems generally stop active citizen identity at death. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] · [[wiki/Legal Identity Lifecycle|Legal Identity Lifecycle]] · [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Digital Identity Succession|Digital Identity Succession]]