Foreigner

Face-to-face Go

At the request of the interested party

The General Directorate of Police is requested, directly or through the Immigration Offices Opens a new window. External link. or Police Stations. In the event that the foreigner is not in Spanish territory at the time of the application, he will request the allocation of NIE to the General Commissariat of Foreigners and Borders, through the Spanish Consular Offices abroad.

Basic data of the procedure:

• Resolution of the procedure:
  • Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
    • By Own Competition:
      • Directorate General of Police
  • Maximum period for resolving and notifying: The procedure must be resolved within a maximum period of five days from the entry of the application in the register of the competent body for its processing.
  • The resolution of the procedure does put an end to the administrative route.
  • Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Dismissal (initiation at the request of the interested party).
• Resources that can be interposed:
  • Replacement
    • Organ that resolves the resource: Organ that dictated the act.
    • Period for lodging an appeal: 1 month.
  • Contentious - Administrative
    • Organ that resolves the resource:
      • Contentious Court - Administrative.
      • Central Administrative Litigation Courts; Administrative Litigation Chambers of the High Court of Justice.
      • Administrative Litigation Division of the National High Court; Administrative Litigation Division of the Supreme Court.
    • Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months.

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: 994354