<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Government has already deployed the new digital Civil Registry platform, DICIREG, in almost 100 Consular Offices<span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">, serving approximately 1.5 million people.</span></span></span></strong></h4> The rollout abroad began in July 2024 in the Spanish Consular Offices in Helsinki, Manchester, and Amman and is expected to be completed by mid-2024 throughout the entire Spanish consular network. The implementation of DICIREG abroad is being carried out progressively in close coordination between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Presidency and is occurring in parallel with its rollout in Spain. On December 23, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported in a press release that the platform had already been deployed in 35 Consulates. Since then, the Official State Gazette (BOE) has reported its implementation in another 63 Consular Offices in countries as significant as the United States, Germany, and China. <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Therefore, the platform has already been deployed in almost a quarter of Spain's more than 440 consulates worldwide.</span></span> Just last Wednesday, March 19, the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the effective entry into service of the DICIREG software application in seven Consular Offices: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul (which will take place on April 7) and Hanoi and Bangkok (which will take place a week later). DICIREG, the digital platform adapted to the new Civil Registry model provided for in the 2011 Civil Registry Law, is a comprehensive application in which both the processing of files and the subsequent registration of events are carried out electronically. It is also based on an individual registry, through which each person is identified by their personal code, which attests to the facts and acts of their civil status, arranged chronologically and systematically. The benefits of implementing DICIREG in Consular Offices, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are "numerous for Spanish citizens abroad," as it allows them to obtain any civil registry certificate electronically without having to travel to the Consular Offices, which are sometimes far from their place of residence. Furthermore, by organizing the publication of registry information in digital format, citizens can access the registry online using their electronic identification. All of this promotes immediacy and legal security, since the certificates are transmitted immediately and, as they are issued digitally with a Secure Verification Code (CSV), their authenticity is guaranteed. "DICIREG, together with the implementation of the Consular Digitalization Plan, will contribute to a new relationship between Spanish citizens abroad and their corresponding Consular Offices, characterized by electronic accessibility and more agile and simplified processing," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated last December.
