The mobile phone has become an essential tool in everyday life, both for communicating and for working. Gone is the idea that these devices were only useful for talking or sending messages. Nowadays, they may even help when conduct negotiations with public administration. It is not in vain that you can even install the digital certificate on your smartphone.
These operations, normally tedious, long and which require a lot of time and patience, are gradually becoming digital, and there is an application which brings together a large part of the functions which can be carried out there. It’s called My Citizen Folder and it may be the best-designed app currently available to the Spanish government.
This application is free, it can be downloaded from the Google and Apple application stores and allows you to carry out a multitude of procedures, linked to subjects such as education and training, citizenship and residence, work and retirement, health and social affairs, personal situation and family, vehicles and transport, housing and transparency.
Download the birth certificate
The first of the tasks that can be carried out is downloading the birth certificate. To do this, you must select the option My file
There you need to navigate to the section Personal informationsthen select an option called Certificate literal birth. This option, for now, is only available to people born in Europe. If you press it, a screen with the user’s personal data is displayed and a button at the bottom with the text Seek.
Birth certificate in the My Citizen Folder application
After asking the system to search for the data, a result will be displayed with a link from which the certificate can be downloaded. This will be saved in the phone’s internal memory, in the form of PDF file. If necessary, you can send by email, attach to any procedure and even print.
Document renewal notice
Another function of this application is to be able to schedule notifications so that, before our official documents expire, we are informed. This way, we can go and renew our DNI or driving license without the risk of being stopped in the street and questioned by the police, only to realize at that moment that we had failed to renew it. In addition to establishing opinions, this application gives us the necessary links to request the renewal of the DNI at a police station. This procedure cannot yet be carried out electronicallybut we are allowed to make an appointment in this way to renew it.
Alert Settings
To activate alerts you must click at the bottom on the Settings button. On the next screen, click Configuring reviews, where there are two different sections, general and specific configuration. If we select general configuration You can activate the reception of push notifications (notifications that arrive on your mobile) and receive alerts by email. Of course, for the push notifications option you must click on the yellow window that appears so that on the next screen you click on notifications and allow the system to access notifications from My Citizen Folder. If email notification is enabled, you need to add an email from the Email Address option.
Consult medical history
One of the latest features of the app was being able to view our medical history from it. To do this, you must go to the icon My file, down. There you select Health and social affairsand in this section Clinical history of the national health system. After identifying ourselves (with the Permanent Key or the Electronic Certificate) a section will open in which the document to consult will be chosen.
Interface to download medical history
The options are Summary of clinical history, The bone Clinical reportsEuropean patient summary, imaging test results reports, laboratory tests and reports on the results of other diagnostic tests.
Download professional life
Electronically uploading your professional life has been possible for many years. Of course, trawling through admin sites to find access sometimes wasn’t the easiest thing to do. All you have to do is go to the section titled My file, in the bottom bar, in the central part. In this section you need to click on Work and benefitsand choose the first of the options, called Social security and professional life.
At the bottom of the interface is the option to View full professional life, which one is the one to choose. You will be redirected to the Social Security website, where you can consult Life at work. You will need to identify yourself in one of the four ways available. There you can download Working Life in PDF to our smartphone just by pressing the blue button from the bottom of the screen.
The My Citizen Folder app continues to be updated from time to time, providing new functions to users. Among the latter, the consultation of the history of the municipalities of residencecheck high-level athlete status, download registration certificate with European annex or customize app calendar alerts.
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