Mi Argentina app

I discovered that you can now keep a digital copy of your DNI, driving license and car cedular on your phone using the Mi Argentina app.

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dni-en-tu-celular

https://www.facebook.com/mi.argentina.gob.ar/

Wrong!!!!

It's odd, but as soon as I installed the app, I had a funny feeling it wouldn't work - and it didn't, because you have to receive an email to validate the account, but that email never arrives.

Just like the PIM app for paying for goods, it simply goes around in circles on a highway to nowhere.

There's no help page either, except for a chat bot which serves zero purpose. So this is the second useless app from the government, which doesn't surrpise me one bit.

Edit:

It turns out that this is only for people who have a new DNI since last November but nowhere on the site does it mention that.

https://www.minutouno.com/nota…lular-les-sirve-muy-pocos

But:

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¿Quiénes pueden tramitarlo?

Todos los ciudadanos, nacionales y extranjeros con residencia temporal o permanente vigente mayores de 14 años que realicen un nuevo ejemplar de DNI tarjeta y quieran portar el DNI en tu celular junto al resto de sus aplicaciones.

Argentina living up to its banana republic image yet again.

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Maybe you can just walk at the Renaper and validate it in person.

I think I might just do that and see what occurs.

Update

I finally managed to validate my account, more by accident than design, but now it won't accept my bike cedula number from the physical card.

It's a good idea in principle, but just a shame that it doesn't work in real life. The whole idea is that you can present the app to the police because it works offline.

Fail!

I really need the digital DNI now because I've stuck the exemption certificate on the bike windshield and all I want to do is flash my mobile phone at the many police checkpoints.

The only way to obtain a digital DNI in the Mi Argentina app is to receive an activation code which can be obtained by visiting a registry in person (Renaper).

Clearly that's not possible at the moment, however an emergency system is in place by emailing consultas@renaper.gob.ar who may or may not send the code.

I've just done that, so let's see.

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dni

Good idea @JAN

Unsurprisingly I didn't get a reply from the Digital DNI dept so I took a photo of my DNI, cropped it, put it in landscape and now show it to the police on my phone.

Works every time.