The State Secretary for Security, Rafael Perezassured this Wednesday that Spain will be “the first country in the world to have a national ID on a mobile phone”.
During the inauguration of the new facilities of the Documentation Unit of the National Police in CórdobaPérez, though He didn't give a date, but suggested it would happen “not long after.”
The Ministry of the Interior has been working since 2000 on a technological development that allows the integration of the digital DNI into mobile phones and has the same uses as the physical DNI In 2021 it was adapted to the so-called “European DNI”.which meets the requirements of a regulation that has been binding for all states of the European Union since August 2nd of this year.
In his speech on the occasion of the inauguration of the new documentation unit, which has been in operation for two months, Rafael Pérez emphasized that the first precursor of the current DNI was “a small and quite rudimentary green box” issued to comply with the Royal Decree founding document of the General Police of the Kingdom, issued by Fernando VII on January 13, 1824, which is why the National Police now celebrates the bicentenary of its founding.
“It no longer serves us only to recognize the Spanish personality and nationality, it is what it is.” also a travel document and a tool for carrying out telematic transactions thanks to its contact and radio connections,” said the Foreign Minister, before announcing the imminent entry into service of the DNI on the mobile phone, as is the case with the driving license.
The facilities inaugurated this Wednesday, with an investment of just over a million euros, centralize the two ID and passport issuing points the National Police in Córdoba and the Foreigner's ID card issuing point This was made possible by the government's sub-delegation.