Add your spouse, children, and emergency contacts
Add your spouse, children, and emergency contacts
Very few real forms are only about you. A benefits application asks about your spouse's income. A school registration asks about two children. A hospital intake asks who to call.
my-id.ca stores those people in the same profile as you, and knows which is which.
Where they live
Open Personal Information from the account menu. Alongside the sections about you, there are sections for your spouse or partner, your children, and emergency contacts.
Each family member gets the same kinds of field you do — name, date of birth, identifiers, contact details — because forms ask the same things about them.
Children repeat; you switch between them
Children are handled differently from a single spouse, because there can be several of them.
Above the tabs you will see a row of chips: one per child, plus a dashed + Add.
- Click a chip to switch to that child. The tabs underneath now belong to them.
- Click + Add to create another.
- Click the ✕ on a chip to remove that child and everything stored under them. If there is data there, you are asked to confirm first.
Each chip shows the child's name once you have entered one, and a placeholder like "Kid 2" until then.
This structure is what makes multi-dependant forms work. A form with "Dependant 1" and "Dependant 2" fills from two different chips. Without it, both would get the same values.
How autofill picks the right person
When my-id.ca meets a field on a web form or in a PDF, it reads the label and works out whose field it is:
| Label contains | Treated as |
|---|---|
| spouse, husband, wife, partner, common-law, domestic partner | Your partner |
| child, children, son, daughter, dependant, dependent, minor child | A child |
| emergency contact, next of kin | An emergency contact |
| nothing of the above | You |
Labels that mark a field as belonging to a representative, agent, witness, or "for office use" are recognised too, and left alone — my-id.ca does not fill somebody else's professional details with your own.
This is automatic, and it is why filling in a label-free form is less reliable. A bare box next to another bare box gives the matcher nothing to go on. When that happens, review before you send.
When it is ambiguous, you are asked
If a form clearly concerns a child but does not say which one, you get to choose rather than getting a guess. In the AI assistant you can also say which child up front — "fill this with Maya's details" — and it uses that instance.
Emergency contacts
Emergency contacts are usually the fastest section to fill and the one people skip. They are asked for on school forms, medical intake, employment onboarding, travel insurance, and gym memberships. Two minutes now saves you a phone call to check a relative's mobile number every time.
Practical notes
- Store legal names, not nicknames. "Kate" on a passport application is a rejected passport application.
- Add dates of birth for children. Half of what forms want about a child is derived from it: age, grade, eligibility.
- Keep a departed relationship tidy. If a partner's details are no longer relevant, clear the section rather than leaving stale values where autofill will find them.
- Check the person before you submit. The single most common autofill error is right value, wrong person.
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Frequently asked questions
- How does autofill know a field is about my spouse and not me?
- It reads the field label. Words like spouse, husband, wife, partner, or common-law mark a field as belonging to your partner; child, dependant, son, or daughter mark it as a child's. Fields with no such marker are treated as yours.
- How do I add a second child?
- In the children section, click the dashed + Add chip. Each chip is one child; click a chip to switch to that child's tabs.
- What if a form asks about a child I have not added?
- Add them first, then fill the form. Filling with the wrong child's details is much harder to unpick than spending a minute adding the right one.