Foreigner Procedures

Below are all the procedures and procedures related to foreign citizens.

Foreigners foreigner procedures and procedures

  • Extension of short-term stay

    Form EX29

    Exceptionally extend the stay of foreign persons who have entered Spain for purposes other than their residence, work or long-term stay.

  • Student card for foreigners starting or renewing

    Form EX17

    Document intended to identify the foreigner for the purposes of proving his legal status in Spain.

  • NIE assignment at the request of the interested party

    Form EX15

    NIE for foreigners who are related to Spain because of their economic, professional or social interests.

  • Certificate of registration

    Form EX16

    It is a printed document that is provided to the foreigner that cannot be documented by the authorities of any country and that wishes to be documented by Spain, once its registration in the Central Register of Foreigners has been resolved.

  • Certificate of Resident

    Form EX15

    To accredit to other bodies periods of legal residence in Spain.

  • Certificate of non-resident

    Form EX15

    Prove the status of non-resident foreigner in Spain.

  • Authorisation issuance invitation letter

    Form/Form

    Regulate the terms and conditions that must be met by the individual to make an invitation in favor of a foreigner, assuming the commitment to pay during the period of stay of the beneficiary all the expenses related to his accommodation.

  • Statue of Stateless Person

    Form/Form

    Application for the recognition of statelessness. Stateless is any person who is not considered as a national of his or her own by any State, in accordance with its legislation.

  • EU citizen registration certificate

    Form EX18

    It is the document that certifies the registration in the Register of Foreigners of the citizens of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who will reside in Spain for a period of more than three months.

  • Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work

    Form EX17

    Document intended to identify the foreigner for the purposes of proving his legal status in Spain.

  • Residence card for a relative of a citizen of the European Union

    Form EX19

    Document intended to identify the foreigner for the purposes of proving his legal status in Spain.

  • Authorization and renewal of temporary residence for exceptional circumstances

    Form EX10

    Authorization and renewal of temporary residence for exceptional circumstances (collaboration with police, tax or judicial authorities, or reasons of national security, as well as collaboration in the fight against organized networks or against trafficking in human beings)

  • Authorization of return

    Form EX13

    Document issued to the foreign person whose residence or long-term stay authorization is in the period of renewal or extension. It allows you to leave Spain and return to the national territory within 90 days.

  • Long-term residence card

    Form EX17

    Document intended to identify the foreigner for the purposes of proving his legal status in Spain. A foreigner who has been authorized to reside and work in Spain indefinitely under the same conditions as Spaniards is in long-term residence.

  • Return of foreigners

    Foreigners who have been expelled contravene the ban on entry into Spain and foreigners who intend to enter the country irregularly.

  • Prohibition of departure

    Banning the departure of foreign nationals in various cases previously covered by the Act.

  • Prohibition of entry

    Prohibition of entry to non-resident foreigners who are outside Spain, in which one of the cases provided by law and regulation concurs.

  • Letter of invitation document

    Generation of valid support to make effective the resolution granted by the invitation letter. Issue of the letter of invitation document.

  • Refugee identity document, subsidiary protection and stateless person

    Documents identifying foreigners who have been granted asylum and refugee status in Spain; the right to subsidiary protection; or statelessness, respectively.

  • Travel document for refugee, subsidiary protection and stateless person

    Document issued with the sole purpose of providing the holder with a travel document that can act as a National Passport, but does not prejudice or modify in any way the nationality of the holder, if it had one.

  • Authorization of registration of undocumented persons

    Provisional identification document, which will enable the foreigner to stay in Spain for three months, during which time the information about his background will be completed.

  • Exceptional authorisation of entry

    To authorise the entry into Spain of foreigners who do not meet the legal requirements, when there are exceptional reasons of humanitarian nature, public interest or compliance with commitments made by Spain.

  • Exceptional authorisation for a short stay

    Exceptional authorization of stay in Spain for a maximum of three months in a period of six, for humanitarian reasons, public interest or international obligations.

  • Visa processing transit/stay at the border

    Issuance of visas at the border. Uniform visas or visas of limited territorial validity issued at frontiers on an exceptional basis, aimed at resolving urgent situations of a humanitarian nature, of national interest or arising from international obligations.

  • Refusal of entry into Spain

    Control of compliance with the requirements established in the current regulations for entry into national territory.

  • Expulsion of foreigners

    To expel a foreigner when the offender engages in any of the acts described as very serious or serious as those provided for in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) (d) and (f) of article 53 of the above-mentioned Organic Law, and 57.2.

  • Sanctioning in the matter of foreigners

    Exercise of the sanctioning power by the commission of the administrative infractions provided for in the LAW

  • Foreigner Fees

    Fees applicable to procedures and procedures relating to citizens and foreign nationals.

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