Why use the digital certificate of the FNMT

The digital certificate is a way to verify your identity, This certification is issued by the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre or its acronym FNMT which is granted to natural persons to expedite certain administrative procedures, with the possibility of carrying out these electronically from the electronic headquarters of most public organizations and entities, that is why we are going to tell you step by step the two ways that there are to obtain the digital certificate of the FNMT .

With the digital certificate we can carry out multiple procedures , among others:

• Payment of taxes
• Resources and claims
• Census data
• Register data
• Fines management
• T procedures for applying for grants
• Signature of documents
• Actions reported
• Consultation of the place of vote

And it is useful in many organizations such as the Cadastre, Banco de Spain, Ministries, Social Security, procedures with your autonomous community or your city council among others , thanks to the digital certificate we will be able to carry out these procedures in these and other organizations without having to travel, which translates into a great comfort , since you can present it from home, any day and at any time.

To get the digital certificate from the FNMT you have two options , you can request it through the FNMT software or using the DNIe 3.0 , although in both cases the FNMT software must be installed, the difference is that using DNIe it will not be necessary to go to one of the offices accreditation of the FNMT .

How to get the digital certificate from the FNMT software

As we have seen, there are two ways to obtain the certificate, either with a DNIe, for which we will need a reader and have the DNIe updated, or from the FNMT software; which requires going in person once to accredit us for the request.

It is very important not to make any changes to the equipment since the request is made. digital certificate until we download it , this includes any hardware modification or update of programs or operating system, it is necessary to download it with the same browser that is requested and using the same computer and user.

Obtain the certificate using the FNMT software

First we will have to configure our computer to obtain the certificate, for this we must install software that will help us to request the certificate for later and once accredited to be able to download it.

1. We entered the FNMT website to download the software that will generate the keys that will allow us to request the certificate later. Download the appropriate one for your operating system, it is available for Windows and Linux in versions of 32 and 64 bits and for macOS.

2. Once downloaded we install it by double clicking on the downloaded file and the FNMT software installation wizard will open, follow the instructions to install it.

3. If we do not have self-signature installed, at the end of the installation we you will remember that we must install it, we can download it from here.

4. Self-signature is compressed in Zip, to decompress it you can use one of the decompressing programs that we teach you in this guide, already decompressed, All you have to do is double click to install it, we follow the steps to finish the installation by clicking next and accept at the end. We must have the browsers closed to complete the installation.

5. Now we can enter the section to request the FNMT certificate, we fill in the data as requested , we accept the conditions and click on send request , if everything is correct it will ask us to open the configuration of the FNMT application and we will have to protect it with a password, the same that will be used to download it, the application will tell us that it has sent us an email with the request code.

6. Now we will have to attend one of the accreditation offices with the code obtained.

7. Once accredited we can download our certificate from 1 hour, remember that it must be with the same computer and user without having made modifications to the computer. To download it, the FNMT application will open again and we will have to enter the password that we entered when requesting it.

Once downloaded we can export it to any browser, or even to our mobile phone to continue using it, it is advisable to leave a backup for what may happen.

How to obtain the digital certificate of the FNMT with DNIe

In this way we will not have to move to accredit ourselves , but we will have to use a DNIe reader and the software of the FNMT.

The process is the same as the previous one, but accrediting you through DNIe instead of going to an accreditation office, for this it is necessary to install the software that reads our DNIe in addition to the trust certificates.

It will also be necessary to have active the certificates of our DNIe if we do not have what e renew them in the corresponding police station machines, which requires going in person and taking into account that the FNMT certificate is much easier to use than the DNIe, in the case of not having the DNIe certificates active, we recommend that you follow the direct method of requesting them from the FNMT in the previous section.

The digital certificate of the FNMT allows expediting all kinds of procedures

We will save a few trips with their corresponding queues and documentation to provide if we have a digital certificate, in addition to the convenience of receiving the requested documentation instantly in most cases, for example, if we need a certificate of registration or if we want to pay some time of tax that we do not have domiciled is done at the moment. Or, simply, to identify ourselves in many portals and systems that support digital certificates.

Also as once installed we can export it to other browsers and / or equipment , even to our mobile, we can do the procedures from any device where we have installed the digital certificate , but make sure that only You can use it yourself, if you are teleworking and have a computer from your company, it is better that you delete it before returning it if this happens.

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