How we verify that you are a lawyer

Only a registered lawyer with a valid tarjeta profesional (bar card) can send notifications from Notificado. The verification is personal: you do it once, under Account → Verification (/cuenta/verificacion), and it is valid in every firm you are a member of.

What we ask for

• Your document type (cédula de ciudadanía, cédula de extranjería or PPT) and number.
• Your tarjeta profesional number.
• Your full name, as it appears in the Registro Nacional de Abogados (national lawyer registry).
• The email registered in SIRNA.
• Optional: the constancia de vigencia (certificate of good standing) of your tarjeta profesional, the PDF as you download it from the Rama Judicial or, if you do not have it at hand, a legible photo or scan (PDF, PNG or JPEG, up to 20 MB). A photo is shrunk and straightened in your browser before it is uploaded; a PDF is uploaded as it is. With no upload, the document on your file is the constancia we download from the registry.

You type the numbers yourself. We do not take them from any other source.

What we check

1. The national lawyer registry. With the document type and number you typed we request the Rama Judicial's public constancia de vigencia. We keep the PDF exactly as the registry returns it, with its SHA-256 fingerprint. We check that the registration and the tarjeta profesional are vigente (in good standing), and that the name, cédula and card number match what you typed. Names are compared ignoring case and accents.
2. That the SIRNA email is yours. We send a code to the SIRNA email you typed. Entering it on the page proves that inbox is yours. If it does not arrive, check your spam folder or ask for another code on the same page, which shows how many tries you have left.
3. The email you typed. The public constancia de vigencia does not show the email, and we do not take it from the text of the document you upload, even when it shows one. We approve with the code you confirm at that address, and the decision records that it is the address you declared. If a document from the registry itself shows a SIRNA email different from the one you typed, a person on the team reviews the filing.
4. The document you upload, if you upload one. We read the text of a PDF; if it is a photo or a scan, an automated reader (an AI model) extracts the name and the numbers. We compare what was read with what you typed. If the registry already matched, a document that cannot be read clearly changes nothing; one that is read and shows details different from yours is reviewed by a person. If the registry does not answer, the document can take its place (see the next section).
5. That the identity is not verified on another account. A cédula or a tarjeta profesional is approved on one account only.

Automatic checks, attempts and team review

The registry lookup and the code are checked automatically. If the registry matches, shows the registration and the card vigente with no observations, and you confirm the code, the verification is approved automatically, with no person involved. We write to your account email with the approval and a button to make your first send, and from then on you can send.

If something does not match, the page tells you exactly what (for example, "the name you typed does not match the registry") so you can correct it and submit again. You have three automatic attempts: each answer from the registry counts as one. Submitting again does not reset them.

A person on the team reviews the filing when:

• the third attempt does not match either;
• the registry shows observations or sanctions;
• the cédula or the tarjeta profesional is already approved on another account;
• the document you uploaded, once read, shows someone else or details different from what you typed;
• a registry document shows a SIRNA email different from the one you typed;
• the registry did not answer and no uploaded document could take its place (see the next section).

If the code is missing, the filing waits for you to enter it. The page tells you why a person is reviewing it and what is pending. The reviewer sees every attempt with its reason.

If the registry does not answer

Sometimes the Rama Judicial registry does not answer, returns a page we cannot read, or does not accept your document number (its form takes no more than 10 digits). None of that is your doing, and it is not counted against your attempts.

• If you uploaded the constancia de vigencia or a photo, we read it automatically and it takes the registry's place when it names you: the name, cédula and card number match what you typed. A PDF constancia must also show the registration and the card vigente with no observations; a photo must read clearly. With the code confirmed, the verification is approved automatically, and the weekly re-check asks the registry later.
• If you uploaded no document, or the one you uploaded is not enough, and the registry did not answer, we ask it again automatically, about 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours and 6 hours later. If it still does not answer, a person on the team reviews the filing. If the registry's page could not be read or your document number is too long for the registry, a person reviews it without waiting for those lookups.

If you cannot access your SIRNA email

If the registered email is no longer yours, update it in SIRNA first, through the Rama Judicial's online services. Then correct the email in the verification form and submit again: the code goes to the new address. If your verification is already approved, use the email change explained below.

If you cannot, write to us from /soporte. A person on the team can confirm your identity another way (for example, a video call where you show your cédula) and records how they did it. The registry lookup still runs, and we send a notice to the SIRNA email you typed.

After approval

• It is valid in all your firms. If another firm invites you as a lawyer, you do not verify again.
• Trial credits: once per person. They are credited to the first of your firms that has not had a trial yet (each firm gets only one), in the amount and with the validity listed on Pricing. In other firms, sends use the credits that firm buys.
• We re-check the registry every week. If one week the registry does not show you registered or vigente, your sends continue and the team looks into it; if it happens two weeks in a row, sends are paused in all your firms. If the registry states a suspension, an exclusion or a sanction, they are paused from that lookup. A person on the team reviews the pause with you and can lift it. Your drafts are kept.

If you change your SIRNA email after approval

1. Update the email in SIRNA, through the Rama Judicial's online services.
2. Under Account → Verification (/cuenta/verificacion), in Change your SIRNA email, type the new address. We send a code to that address, and a notice to the current one in case it was not you who asked.
3. Enter the code on the same page. This proves you receive mail at the new address.
4. A person on the team checks that it is now the address registered in SIRNA and approves or rejects the change. We write to you with the decision and, if it is rejected, the reason.

Until the team approves the change, your notifications keep going out with the verified address. Notifications already sent keep the address they went out with. If your sends are paused, the change waits until they resume.

If you will not send as apoderado

An assistant, a paralegal or a lawyer who only prepares drafts does not need to verify. Prepare the notification and choose Request approval: a verified lawyer at the firm reviews it under Approvals (/aprobaciones) and sends it in their own name.

Your data

We use this data only to verify that you are a lawyer, and the result of every lookup is recorded. The registry lookup uses the Rama Judicial's public service. Photos and scans are read by an AI provider contracted through OpenRouter, with routing limited to providers that do not keep the data or use it to train models. Read the privacy notice and the data processing policy.

Next steps

• If your verification was rejected: the reason and how to correct it.
• Getting started with Notificado: from a new account to your first notification.