Newborns born in private hospitals aren't pre-registered

If you're a foreign parent and your baby is born in a private hospital in Portugal, your newborn is not pre-registered. You have to physically go to a Conservatória within weeks of birth to do it in person.

That means taking a baby that's only a few weeks old into a confined, packed government building full of sick people. Objectively the last place a newborn should be.

In our case both parents are legal residents with Chave Móvel Digital et al. The hospital already sends the birth notification electronically to the IRN. The state already has everything it needs. We still had to queue in person with a newborn.

The fix:

1. Auto-register these births using the electronic notification the hospital already sends.

2. Let both parents confirm the registration online with Chave Móvel Digital when they're already in the system.

3. At minimum, send a registrar to the hospital before discharge.

Portugal already runs Chave Móvel, e-fatura, Portal das Finanças, Via Verde. There's no reason a newborn should be exposed to a Conservatória waiting room for something the state could resolve in one API call.