Foreigner Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work
Document intended to identify the foreigner for the purpose of proving his legal status in Spain.
Requirements and conditions
Classes and typologies
- After entering Spain, the foreigner must apply for the Foreigner Identity Card.
- When the residence permit is renewed and once the favorable decision has been notified, the foreigner must apply for the Foreigner Identity Card.
Who are the stakeholders?
- Residents in Spain.
Period of validity
- Term of validity of the temporary residence permit.
How to carry out the procedure
Face-to-face Go
The application and the accompanying documentation must be submitted to any Aliens Office or Police Station.
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:
- By Own Competition:
- Directorate General of Police
- By Own Competition:
- Bodies competent to resolve this 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. Open a new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994694
Models of forms
- Application for Foreigner Identity Card (TIE) (Form EX17) 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