Foreigner Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Registration certificate
It is a printed document that is provided to the foreigner that cannot be documented by the authorities of any country and that wishes to be documented by Spain, once its registration in the Central Register of Foreigners has been resolved.
Printed document, to be renewed annually and the characteristics of which will be determined by the Ministry of the Interior, following a report by the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Foreigners
Requirements and conditions
Who are the stakeholders?
- Foreigner who cannot be documented by the authorities of any country and who wishes to be documented by Spain.
Period of validity
- 1 year, renewable.
How to carry out the procedure
Face-to-face Go
- Personally and in writing
- Model of Application travel title or registration card.
- Rate model 790, code 012.
- The application together with the accompanying documentation must be submitted to any relevant Police Station .
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Delegate or Subdelegate of the Government or the Commissioner General for Foreigner and Borders
- Maximum period for resolving and notifying: 3 months.
- 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).
- Regulations governing administrative silence:
- 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.
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- 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.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Replacement
- Resolution of the procedure:
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: 994596
Models of forms
- Application for Registration Card or Travel Title (LO 4/2000 and RD 1155/2024) (Form EX16) Opens new window. External link.
- Fee, amount and place of payment
- Printed Tax Model 790 Code 012 Opens 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, 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