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Cita previa NIE Barcelona: getting a slot at the police office

A NIE appointment in Barcelona is booked online, for free, on the administration’s ICP cita previa pages: province of Barcelona, then the procedure, then an office. No immigration counter in the city sees you without one. Finding a free slot is the hard part, and the procedure you choose decides which office you are sent to.

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§1Where appointments are booked

Police immigration appointments are booked on the administration’s own platform, the ICP pages hosted on sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es. Pick Barcelona as the province, then the procedure, then one of the offices that offer it, and finish with your identity and contact details.

The procedure matters as much as the date. A NIE assignment, the EU registration certificate, the fingerprints for a TIE and the return authorisation are separate entries, and each one leads to the offices that handle it; in the city, the two NIE offices split the work by passport.

SourceCita previa (ICP) · sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es

§2Have this ready before you start

  • Your passport or ID number, exactly as printed
  • Your full name and nationality
  • A mobile number and an email address you actually read
  • For a TIE, the NIE you already have
  • Some flexibility on the office, where the system offers several

§3Why free slots disappear

The province of Barcelona is large, its foreign population is too, and appointments appear as offices open their diaries rather than on a published timetable. Free slots go quickly, and on many days the system simply answers that there are none.

Refreshing all day is not a method. Being ready is: details at hand, the right procedure, openness to a comisaría outside the city, and someone checking at different hours. That checking is part of what we do for our clients, though no one can promise a date.

§4The confirmation

Once you book, the system gives you a confirmation with a reference number. Keep it. It names the office, the day and the hour, and it is the document that counts if the office on it is not the one you expected.

The police counters in Barcelona

Offices of the Policía Nacional, not ours: you go there for the appointment itself.

  1. Counter A · EU citizens · TIE issueSant Martí de Provençals, Sant Martí

    Oficina de Régimen Comunitario (Policía Nacional, Rambla Guipúzcoa)

    EU registration certificates, NIE numbers for EU citizens who are not resident, autorizaciones de regreso. The same address hosts the Oficina de Régimen General, which issues TIE cards to non-EU citizens.

    Address
    Rambla Guipúzcoa 74, 08020 Barcelona
    Hours
    Mon–Fri 9:00–14:00, with cita previa
    Official phone
    932 951 071

    Every procedure here is by cita previa. Non-EU citizens who are not resident get their NIE at Passeig de Sant Joan 189. No official page names a metro station or a bus stop for number 74: use the map.

    Map of this addressListed on policia.esAccess: guia.barcelona.cat

  2. Counter B · Non-EU, not resident

    Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras (Passeig de Sant Joan)

    NIE numbers for non-EU citizens who are not resident, residence certificates for non-EU citizens.

    Address
    Passeig de Sant Joan 189, 08037 Barcelona
    Hours
    Mon–Fri 9:00–14:00
    Official phone
    935 209 523
    Metro
    metroL4 Joanic
    Bus
    bus15 · 20 · 39 · 45 · 47 · 55 · 114 · 116

    Lines listed on a how-to-get-there sheet of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

    Map of this addressListed on policia.esAccess: upc.edu

  3. Counter C · TIE collectionEixample, corner of Enric Granados

    Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras (Carrer de Mallorca)

    Collection of TIE cards for non-EU citizens.

    Address
    Carrer de Mallorca 213, at Enric Granados, 08008 Barcelona
    Hours
    Mon–Fri 9:00–14:00
    Official phone
    934 514 804

    Map of this addressListed on policia.es

Questions on this entry

Is there a charge for the cita previa?
Yes. Booking on the official system costs nothing; the only official fee for a NIE is the Modelo 790 código 012. Our help is the preparation and the search, not access to some private channel.
Can I book at a comisaría outside Barcelona city?
Where the system offers it, yes. Several police stations of the province list NIE work, and many people choose by availability. Make sure the station offers your procedure before you book.
And if I cannot make the appointment?
Cancel on the same platform with your reference number so the slot goes back into circulation, then book again.

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  2. 2 You get the list of papers for your case, and the office in Barcelona it belongs to.
  3. 3 If you want us to, we prepare the forms with you and look for the cita previa.

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