Foreigner Procedures
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Refugee travel document, 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 prejudge or modify in any way the nationality of the holder, if it had one. Its expedition is decentralized by the Authorized Foreigner Units.
Requirements and conditions
Classes and typologies
- Refugee Travel Document (Geneva Convention for Refugees and Act on the Right of Asylum and Subsidiary Protection).
- Subsidiary Protection Travel Document (Act regulating the right of asylum and subsidiary protection).
- Stateless Persons Travel Document (Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and Stateless Persons Regulations).
Who are the stakeholders?
- The holder of the right/statute.
Period of validity
- 5 years.
How to carry out the procedure
Face-to-face Go
- Personal appearance of the beneficiary in the authorized dispatching units
- International Protection Section (refugees, subsidiary protection and stateless persons) at the OAR in Madrid.
- Provincial Units for Foreigners.
- Authorized local units.
- Foreigner units attached to offices of foreigners.
- Personal appearance of the beneficiary in the authorized dispatching units
Documentation
- Identity document that had been issued to the holder.
- If they are not currently in possession of this documentation, the resolution granting the status or the corresponding right (refugee, subsidiary protection or stateless person).
- Photographs in color, card size and with a light background and the face uncovered.
- Proof of payment Tax model 790 Code 012.
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Form of initiation: At the request of the interested party.
- Type of procedure: Authorizations, Licenses and Concessions.
- Subject of the procedure: CIVIL RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND RELATIONS.
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- The authorized units of the Ministry of the Interior.
- Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Dismissal (initiation at the request of the interested party).
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
Regulations:
- Geneva Convention for Refugees, of 28-07-1951. Open a new window. External link.
- ORGANIC LAW 4/2000 of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners and their social integration. Open a new window. External link.
- Law 12/2009 regulating the right of asylum and subsidiary protection. 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. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 203/1995 Asylum Regulations. Open a new window. External link.
- CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF STATELESS PERSONS, 28-09-1954. Open a new window. External link.
- ROYAL DECREE 865/2001 approving the Regulations for the recognition of stateless persons. Open a new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994415
Models of forms
- Fee, amount and place of payment
- Rate model 790, code 012.
- View amount of fees
- Banks, Savings Banks and Credit Cooperatives, in which it is not necessary to have an open account, through the presentation of the income document
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

