How to know if I am registered

For the Government and other public bodies of the State, it is very important to know how many people live in each municipality, in such a way that they can provide the adequate amount of public services in each place. For this, citizens must register in the municipal register . For the inhabitants it is also important, since being registered will allow you to know where they can vote in an election. For all these, in .com we will give you some clues to know if you are registered.

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The Municipal Register is an administrative file where the inhabitants of a municipality are registered. It should be the Town Councils who are responsible for managing each pattern autonomously, and the National Institute of Statistics who coordinates them to gather information on the distribution and characteristics of the country's population.

When it is managed by the City Council, it will depend on each one the method to know if you are registered, although they are usually all similar.

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Since it is not an information that the City Councils procure from their website, we must go in person to the City Council of the municipality where we live, in the Office of Citizen Services or equivalent window. Some City Councils begin to enable the issuance of a certificate of registration on their website, if we have an electronic certificate.

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Once in the Town Hall, we will request a certificate of registration, where our personal details of the register, such as place of address, name and surname or date of birth. The responsible official will request a DNI or passport, to prove our identity.

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Once we have delivered the certificate we requested, we can verify if all the data is correct. In the case that some data has to be modified or is wrong, we will have to request a document where we can introduce the new data of our registry, and that we will have to deliver in the same Town Hall.

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In the event that they can not give us the certificate because we are not registered, we can request the registration form there to register. Generally we will have to include the following data:

• Photocopy and original of the DNI or equivalent.
• Photocopy and original of the rental contract that shows that we live in that municipality, or of the possession of the house.
• Family book if we want to register our children.

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The registration and registration certificate of registration documents can request us for very common activities, such as renewing the driver's license, renewing the DNI or accessing state aids and benefits, so it is essential that the information of the voter that has our City Council on us, be correct.