More and more people need the electronic DNI to carry out legal, fiscal or financial procedures from home. It is much more comfortable and above all it makes you do not leave your home to carry out each procedure. In this article, you will learn how to know if you have the expired DNI certificate to be able to renew it among many other things. Everything step by step. Thanks to the pandemic, the electronic DNI is increasing because every time we assume much better that the procedures are becoming fully telematic.
To start, if you still do not have the electronic DNI certificate, we are going to teach you how to activate it step by step, how to use the DNI certificate, how to activate and renew the electronic DNI certificate. In many cases what will happen is that in order to use the electronic DNI you will have to have all the valid certificates which will allow you to enter any procedure and what that means is that that valid online identity has an expiration date that you need to renew. If you have the expired DNI certificate, you will not be able to carry out any procedure with the public administration. We go there with all the information you need to know about the DNI certificate and the electronic DNI.
How to renew the expired DNI certificate and activate it?
If the DNI certificate that you have has expired or expired because you have stopped using it and you no longer have it available then that is when you can make your way to the nearest police station that you have at your home. There you will find a point where you can update the electronic DNI and inside you will see the option to "Operate with the electronic DNI". Now it will ask you to put your ID in the reader and click on start the procedures.
Now you will have to enter the password you have, but rest assured that if you have forgotten it, you will always be able to enter with your fingerprint. By not remembering your password, the system will require your fingerprint so there is no problem to carry out the procedures. As long as you have your finger on, of course. Once you have identified yourself in the system with your fingerprint, it will require you to enter a new one to replace the previous one. After this confirm the new password.
After this your data will appear on the screen together with the information of the electronic DNI certificate. There is the place where you will be shown if your expired DNI certificate can be renewed or not since you have been confused and it is not expired. Once you have reached that point you will have a very clear option that will tell you to "update the electronic DNI certificate".
Once you press it, it is how you are going to renew the electronic DNI certificate and after this you will it will show you the new date on which your electronic ID will expire and above all, you will be told that it is already valid and you can operate with it for any procedure with the public administration.
How to use your electronic DNI certificate once you have renewed it?
In order to use it, you will have to insert your ID card in the slot of the device that you must have, that way the gadget will read the chip. You can also carry out this procedure on a printer and other types of devices that read and recognize you as a smart card.
Once you enter an official website where you are requested to authenticate with the certificate of your electronic DNI, such as any of the public administration, be it the official website of the police for an instance or even the Treasury for a tax procedure, They will automatically detect your DNI certificate and you will have to click on accept. Now in that same window or box (called a smart card) that will appear, you will be asked to enter the PIN and once you enter it, click on accept. Remember that in order to carry out any of these procedures you cannot have the expired DNI certificate.
How to activate the electronic DNI for the first time?
If you still do not have the electronic DNI it is very easy to get it but you are going to have to take a few steps and deliver some other document that accredits you. Next we go with everything you need to be able to have it and carry out all the procedures with the public administration from your own home and personal computer.
The first and most important step is that you go to the national police station closest to your home. What they are going to ask you is that you request an appointment online to be able to go first, so we recommend that before going to the police station you go before through the official website and make an appointment to carry out this procedure in the police station that you choose among those that are close to you.
Now you should have consigned the following documents since they are an essential requirement to be able to get your electronic ID:
- Birth certificate
- Recent ID photo
- Certificate of registration
- Make a cash payment for the administrative procedure
Now and once you are at the national police station, you will find yourself different points that are like ATMs where you can update your electronic ID. These machines will have a fingerprint reader and also a place to enter the ID. In this place you will enter the PIN or password that you want to enter and later you will be required to carry out any procedure, even renew it when it expires. With this certificate you can also search for people if you have their names and surnames for any registration or civil information procedure.
In order to proceed you will have to download the electronic DNI program on the official page of the National Police Corps, same in which you previously requested an appointment at the police station. As advice we tell you to use the Google Chrome browser to carry out these procedures since it is the one that gives the least problems. You will be able to find the program in the downloads section of the website itself, then choose the operating system you use and the download will begin.
After this you will have to carry out a normal and current installation and once it is installed you will have to proceed to configure the electronic DNI hardware:
To be able to operate with your new electronic ID you will need the DNI 3.0 smart card reader (you will have to buy it). Once you have it, you will have to connect it to your PC through any USB port you have on your PC. Once you install it with its own drivers, you can check in the device manager if you already have the electronic DNI reader installed. It will appear as a smartcard.
We hope to have solved your question about how to renew the expired DNI certificate and above all to have helped those who have arrived without having an electronic DNI and want to have it. See you in the next article.