Foreigner Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Authorisation to issue an invitation letter.
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.
Issuance of the letter of invitation of private individuals on behalf of foreigners seeking to enter the country for tourist or private reasons
Requirements and conditions
Who are the interested parties?
- Spanish citizen, national of a Member State of the European Union or beneficiary of the Community or foreigner legal resident in Spain.
How to carry out the procedure
On-site Go
Personally,
Through the Police Station at the place of residence of the person concerned, on request, where appropriate, by appointment.
The deadline for processing the invitation letter is not immediate: it requires: favourable resolution; dispatch, delivery and collection; referral to the person who is going to use it at the border post.
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- By Own Competition:
- Directorate General of Police
- By Own Competition:
- The decision on the procedure does put an end to the administrative procedure.
- Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Dismissal (initiation at the request of the interested party).
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Resources that can be interposed:
- Potestative replacement of replacement
- Organ that resolves the appeal: Organ that dictated the act.
- Time-limit for lodging the appeal: 1 month express act, 3 months presumptive act.
- Potestative replacement of replacement
- Resolution of the procedure:
Regulations:
- 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.
- Order PRE/1283/2007, of 10 May, establishing the terms and conditions for the issuing of the invitation letter of private individuals in favour of foreigners seeking to enter the country for tourist or private reasons. Open a new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994254
Models of forms
- Invitation letter request (Order Pre/1283/2007, of 10 May) Opens new window
- Rate, amount and place of payment
- Printed Tax Model 790 Code 012 Opens a new window. External link.
- View Amount of Fees
- Banks, Savings Banks and Credit Cooperatives, in which it is not necessary to have an open account, by presenting the entry document
All the procedures
All the formalities and procedures of foreigners
- Foreigner procedures
- Extension of short-term stayForm EX29
- Student card for foreigners starting or renewing(Form EX17)
- Assignment of NIE at the request of interested party.(Form EX15)
- Certificate of registration(Form EX16)
- Certificate of Resident(Form EX15)
- Certificate of non-resident(Form EX15)
- Statue of Stateless Person(Form)
- Authorisation issuance invitation letter(Form)
- EU citizen registration certificate(Form EX18)
- Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work(Form EX17)
- Residence card for a relative of a citizen of the European Union(Form EX19)
- Authorization and renewal of temporary residence for 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 person
- Document Letter of Invitation
- Authorization of registration of undocumented persons
- Exceptional authorisation of entry
- Exceptional authorisation for a short stay
- Visa processing transit/stay at the border
- Refusal of entry into Spain
- Expulsion of foreigners
- Sanctioning in the matter of foreigners
- Foreigner Fees
- Documentation and Information