Foreigner Procedures
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Return of Foreigners
Requirements and conditions
Requirements
- Foreigners who have been expelled contravene the entry ban in Spain.
- For these purposes, the prohibition of entry into Spain will be considered counter-evidence, regardless of whether it was adopted by the Spanish authorities or by those of any of the States with which Spain has signed an agreement in that regard.
- Foreigners who seek to enter the country irregularly. Foreigners who are intercepted at or near the border will be considered included for this purpose.
- An expulsion order will not be necessary for the return of foreigners found in any of the above cases.
Classes and typologies
- The two cases mentioned in the previous section.
Period of validity
- The execution of the return will entail the new beginning of the calculation of the term of prohibition of entry against avenue, when it had been adopted by virtue of an expulsion resolution issued by the Spanish authorities. Likewise, any return agreed in application of paragraph (b) indicated in the first paragraph shall entail the prohibition of entry into Spanish territory for a maximum period of three years.
How to carry out the procedure
By Trade
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Form of initiation: Ex officio.
- Type of procedure: Others.
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Subdelegate of the Government, or of the Delegate of the Government in the uniprovincial autonomous communities.
- The resolution of the procedure does not exhaust the administrative channel.
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Resources that can be interposed:
- Alzada
- Organ that resolves the appeal: the organ that issued the act or superior hierarchical.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 1 month express act, 3 months presumptive act.
- Contentious - Administrative
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Judgments of the Contentious.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Alzada
Regulations:
- ORGANIC LAW 4/2000 of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners and their social integration. Open a new window. External link.
- Royal Decree 1155/2024, of 19 November, approving the Regulation of Organic Law 4/2000, of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and their social integration.Opens new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994276
All the procedures
All foreigner procedures and procedures
- Foreigner procedures
- Extension of short-term stayForm EX29
- Student Card for Foreigners(Form EX17)
- Allocation of NIE at the request of interested parties.(Form EX15)
- Registration certificate(Form EX16)
- Certificate of Resident(Form EX15)
- Certificate of non-resident(Form EX15)
- Stateless Person's Statute(Form)
- Authorization issuance letter of invitation(Form)
- EU Citizen Registration Certificate(Form EX18)
- Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work(Form EX17)
- Residence card of a family member of a European Union citizen(Form EX19)
- Authorization and renewal of temporary residence due to exceptional circumstances(Form EX10)
- Authorization of Return(Form EX13)
- Long-term residence card(Form EX17)
- More information
- Return of Foreigners
- Prohibition of departure
- Prohibition of entry
- Refugee identity document, subsidiary protection and stateless person
- Travel document for refugee, subsidiary protection and stateless persons
- Document Letter of Invitation
- Authorization of registration of undocumented persons
- Exceptional entry authorisation
- Exceptional authorisation for a short stay
- Visa processing transit/stay at the border
- Refusal of entry to Spain
- Expulsion of foreigners
- Penalizing Foreigners
- Foreigner Tax
- Documentation and Information

