Foreigner

Face-to-face Go

Personally

In front of the Offices of Foreigner, Superior Headquarters or the Police Stations of the locality where the interested party intends to stay or establish his residence.

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:
    • Government Subdelegates or Government Delegates in the Autonomous Uniprovincial Communities.
  • 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:
    • ORGANIC LAW 4/2000 of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners and their social integration. Open a new window. External link.
• 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 from the publication.

Regulations:

• ROYAL DECREE 240/2007 on free movement and residence in Spain of citizens of the Member States of the European Union and of other States parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Open a new window. External link.
• Code of the procedure: 994235