The Ministry of the Interior has just put online its platform to generate the new dematerialized travel certificate on smartphone. Here’s how to use it on iPhone and Android.
The exceptional travel certificate can now be made from your smartphone. After cycling in semolina for several days at the start of the implementation of the certificate, the Ministry of the Interior has just put its official platform online to generate the digital document.
The platform allows you to fill in your personal information (name, first name, date of birth, address), and to choose a reason for travel before generating a PDF file of the certificate, on which is present a QR Code that the forces order will be scanned in the event of an inspection. The service is accessible from any mobile web browser. Here is how to proceed to generate a digital version of the certificate on iPhone and Android.
1. Go to the Attestation generator
Open your smartphone’s web browser and go to the derogatory travel certificate generator set up by the Ministry of the Interior.
- Go to the Derogatory travel certificate generator
Quick tip: On iOS or Android, we recommend that you add the site to your favorites, or even better, add it to your home screen, in order to access it more quickly.
2. Fill in your information
The attestation generator offers the same fields as on the paper version of the document. Enter your first name, last name, date and place of birth, postal address, and select a reason for leaving.
The date and time of exit, which are mandatory, are in principle entered automatically when generating the certificate. If you are preparing the attestation for future release, modify these values.
Once all the information has been entered, click on the Generate my certificate button. Your certificate file, in PDF format, should be available for download.
3. Save the attestation
On android
After pressing the button to generate your certificate, your browser will ask you to give a name and save the file on your device.
If you are using Chrome, which is our case, the PDF will be saved in the Downloads directory of the smartphone.
To view the document, you have two options: by going through the browser, or by directly accessing the backup directory using a file manager such as Google Files.
- Download Google Files for Android (Free)
From Chrome, press the main menu, represented by three small dots, and enter the Downloads menu. You should find all the uploaded files there, including your attestation.
If you use a file manager, Google Files on our device, browse the directories on your smartphone to find the one for Downloads. The exceptional travel certificate should be present there.
On iPhone
After pressing the Generate my certificate button, the document should be displayed immediately in the browser if you are using Safari mobile. It is therefore advisable to save the element to keep it locally on the iPhone.
To do this, press the share button, represented by a square from which an arrow comes out, expand the share sheet by dragging it upwards and press Save to Files.
Choose a name by tapping on the one assigned by default (unknown), validate it, choose a backup directory on your device and press Save. In our case, we opted for On my iPhone> Downloads.
Then all you have to do is open the iOS document manager, Files, then navigate to the selected backup directory to view your derogatory travel certificate.