Foreigner Procedures
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Expulsion of foreigners
To proceed to the expulsion of a foreigner who is immersed in any of the infractions included with the expulsion in our current legislation of foreigners.
Requirements and conditions
Requirements
- To expel a foreigner when the offender engages in any of the types of conduct classified as very serious or serious as those provided for in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) of article 53 of the aforementioned Organic Law, and 57.2.
Classes and typologies
- Judicial expulsions.
- Administrative Expulsions.
Who are the stakeholders?
- Directorate General of Police.
- Government Delegates and Subdelegates as appropriate.
How to carry out the procedure
By Trade
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Form of initiation: Ex officio.
- Type of procedure: Sanctioner and Inspector.
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Delegates or Subdelegates of the Government in their case.
- Maximum period for resolving and notifying: 6 months.
- The resolution of the procedure does put an end to the administrative route.
- Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Expiration (start of trade)
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Resources that can be interposed:
- Replacement potestative of replacement
- Organ that resolves the resource: Organ that dictated the act.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 1 month express act, 3 months presumptive act.
- Contentious - Administrative
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Before the National High Court.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months from the publication.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Replacement potestative of replacement
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. Open a new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994275
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