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Digital Certificate

Posted: Thu Oct 8, 2020 1:07pm
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Ned kelly

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I’ve applied on line for the Spanish Digital Certificate but now have to verify my identity by attending an approved office with my passport etc. Is there an address in La Zenia/ Cabo Roig where I can do this?

Kimmy11

Posted: Fri Oct 9, 2020 9:22am

Kimmy11

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Posted: Fri Oct 9, 2020 9:22am

Hi Ned,

Which type of digital certificate have you applied for?  If it's a FNMT, I believe you need to go to the Agencia Tributaria (tax office).  If you've applied for an ACCV, you need to go to your Ayuntamiento (town hall) - for your area, I think that will be the Orihuela Costa office at Playa Flamenca.  Because of Covid-19 restrictions, you probably need to make an appointment first.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Pinkshami

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:37am

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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:37am

Kimmy11 wrote on Fri Oct 9, 2020 9:22am:

Hi Ned,

Which type of digital certificate have you applied for?  If it's a FNMT, I believe you need to go to the Agencia Tributaria (tax office).  If you've applied for an ACCV, you need to go to your Ayuntamiento (town hall) - for your area, I think that will be the Orihuela Costa office at Pl...

...aya Flamenca.  Because of Covid-19 restrictions, you probably need to make an appointment first.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Hi Kim

What is the difference between the digital signature certificates please?

We have begun the process of applying for residencia and numerous people have said we should get a digital signature! 

Which would we be applying for and what overall purpose does it serve.

Many thanks

Sharon

Ned53

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:14am

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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:14am

I’ve applied for the FNMT certificate.

Kimmy11

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:50am

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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:50am

Hi Sharon,

Both a Digital Certificate and a Cl@ve allow you to access data held online about you by Spanish authorities, e.g. driving licence information, including infractions and penalties, at DGT (Trafico), tax returns at the AEAT (Agencia Tributaria tax office).  They also allow you to carry out official transactions online, as they act as your digital 'signature'.  Whilst Cl@ve appears to be easier, because you can apply online, I received an error message every time I tried - and advice from other members is that it is "slow and clunky" to use.

Digital Certificates can be applied for at different authorities, e.g. FNMT (Spain's Royal Mint and Public Printing authority), ACCV (Valencia's agency of Technology and Electronic Certification).  You can use either to access your digital records, but the process for applying for each is different.

I applied for an ACCV digital certificate because these are processed by the Ayuntamiento (town hall) where you live, or own property in the Valencia autonomous region.  With Covid-19 restrictions, you probably need to make an appointment at your Ayuntamiento, but if you're going there to sign onto the Padron, or get a recently dated copy of your Padron (needed for residency/TIE applications), it makes sense to do both at the same time.  I emailed our Ayuntamiento to ask for an appointment to do both - it was quick and painless! 😀

Having a digital certificate allows you to start the residency application process online.  This is especially important, because appointments at the National Police Extranjeros' (foreigners') office in Alicante are very hard to obtain at the moment.  (You may be aware that, so long as UK citizens have officially registered their TIE application before 31 December 2020, they have until 30 June 2021 to complete the process.)  You'll still need to attend the Alicante office to have your fingerprints taken, but having a digital certificate allows you to submit your application form and upload supporting documentation online, while you wait for a face to face appointment to become available. 

Apologies for the lengthy explanation, but I thought it may be helpful to expand on the context behind my answer.  Hope it helps 😄

Kind regards 

Kim

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gordon1972

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:13pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:13pm

Kimmy11 wrote on Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:50am:

Hi Sharon,

Both a Digital Certificate and a Cl@ve allow you to access data held online about you by Spanish authorities, e.g. driving licence information, including infractions and penalties, at DGT (Trafico), tax returns at the AEAT (Agencia Tributaria tax office).  They also allow you to carry out of...

...ficial transactions online, as they act as your digital 'signature'.  Whilst Cl@ve appears to be easier, because you can apply online, I received an error message every time I tried - and advice from other members is that it is "slow and clunky" to use.

Digital Certificates can be applied for at different authorities, e.g. FNMT (Spain's Royal Mint and Public Printing authority), ACCV (Valencia's agency of Technology and Electronic Certification).  You can use either to access your digital records, but the process for applying for each is different.

I applied for an ACCV digital certificate because these are processed by the Ayuntamiento (town hall) where you live, or own property in the Valencia autonomous region.  With Covid-19 restrictions, you probably need to make an appointment at your Ayuntamiento, but if you're going there to sign onto the Padron, or get a recently dated copy of your Padron (needed for residency/TIE applications), it makes sense to do both at the same time.  I emailed our Ayuntamiento to ask for an appointment to do both - it was quick and painless! 😀

Having a digital certificate allows you to start the residency application process online.  This is especially important, because appointments at the National Police Extranjeros' (foreigners') office in Alicante are very hard to obtain at the moment.  (You may be aware that, so long as UK citizens have officially registered their TIE application before 31 December 2020, they have until 30 June 2021 to complete the process.)  You'll still need to attend the Alicante office to have your fingerprints taken, but having a digital certificate allows you to submit your application form and upload supporting documentation online, while you wait for a face to face appointment to become available. 

Apologies for the lengthy explanation, but I thought it may be helpful to expand on the context behind my answer.  Hope it helps 😄

Kind regards 

Kim

Hi Kim, hope you don’t mind me jumping on this conversation, I applied to get my DIgital certificate online, went through the steps then got my number that they give you for next step, so my question is where is the place to go and verify your self with the documents they require? I come under torrevieja 

Gord

Wizzy2

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:43pm

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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:43pm

Kimmy11 wrote on Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:50am:

Hi Sharon,

Both a Digital Certificate and a Cl@ve allow you to access data held online about you by Spanish authorities, e.g. driving licence information, including infractions and penalties, at DGT (Trafico), tax returns at the AEAT (Agencia Tributaria tax office).  They also allow you to carry out of...

...ficial transactions online, as they act as your digital 'signature'.  Whilst Cl@ve appears to be easier, because you can apply online, I received an error message every time I tried - and advice from other members is that it is "slow and clunky" to use.

Digital Certificates can be applied for at different authorities, e.g. FNMT (Spain's Royal Mint and Public Printing authority), ACCV (Valencia's agency of Technology and Electronic Certification).  You can use either to access your digital records, but the process for applying for each is different.

I applied for an ACCV digital certificate because these are processed by the Ayuntamiento (town hall) where you live, or own property in the Valencia autonomous region.  With Covid-19 restrictions, you probably need to make an appointment at your Ayuntamiento, but if you're going there to sign onto the Padron, or get a recently dated copy of your Padron (needed for residency/TIE applications), it makes sense to do both at the same time.  I emailed our Ayuntamiento to ask for an appointment to do both - it was quick and painless! 😀

Having a digital certificate allows you to start the residency application process online.  This is especially important, because appointments at the National Police Extranjeros' (foreigners') office in Alicante are very hard to obtain at the moment.  (You may be aware that, so long as UK citizens have officially registered their TIE application before 31 December 2020, they have until 30 June 2021 to complete the process.)  You'll still need to attend the Alicante office to have your fingerprints taken, but having a digital certificate allows you to submit your application form and upload supporting documentation online, while you wait for a face to face appointment to become available. 

Apologies for the lengthy explanation, but I thought it may be helpful to expand on the context behind my answer.  Hope it helps 😄

Kind regards 

Kim

Kim

I asked this question on a different post but could you please tell me how to find the email address to make an appointment at Orihuela Costa Ayuntamiento please. 

I went through the process online and got to the create a password part which I did, then got an error message. When clicked on got a long list of possible errors so gave up

Wizzy

Kimmy11

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:16pm

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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:16pm

gordon1972 wrote on Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:13pm:

Hi Kim, hope you don’t mind me jumping on this conversation, I applied to get my DIgital certificate online, went through the steps then got my number that they give you for next step, so my question is where is the place to go and verify your self with the documents they require? I come under ...

...torrevieja 

Gord

Hi Gordon,

If you applied for an ACCV digital certificate, you go to Torrevieja town hall,but I believe you'll need to make an appointment beforehand.

Kind regards,

Kim

Kimmy11

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:19pm

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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:19pm

Wizzy2 wrote on Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:43pm:

Kim

I asked this question on a different post but could you please tell me how to find the email address to make an appointment at Orihuela Costa Ayuntamiento please. 

I went through the process online and got to the create a password part which I did, then got an error message. When clicked on got a long list of possible errors so gave up

Wizzy

Hi Wizzy,

I believe you need to go to the satellite office for Orihuela town hall at Playa Flamenca.  I thinkyou need to make an appointment first, so click on this link and then scroll down to "Appointments":

https://orihuela.governalia.es/en/

Kind regards, 

Kim

gordon1972

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:13pm

Posts: 91

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Location: Punta Prima

Joined: 29 Mar 2017

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:13pm

Kimmy11 wrote on Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:16pm:

Hi Gordon,

If you applied for an ACCV digital certificate, you go to Torrevieja town hall,but I believe you'll need to make an appointment beforehand.

Kind regards,

Kim

Hi Kim,  thanks for your reply, I am applying for residency for the first time and wanted to go through it with the digital certificate and that’s where I went and was turned down saying we don’t do this here 

Gordon 

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