§1Who needs it
Is Barcelona now home, because you work here, study here or have moved with means of your own? Then this certificate is how you register as a resident. A white NIE certificate you obtained earlier does not count as registration, but its number moves onto the green one.
§2The file
- Form EX-18, every box completed, signed at the bottom
- An identity document in date (passport or national ID), photocopied
- The Modelo 790 código 012, paid
- Proof of your situation: an employment contract or social security registration, registration as self-employed, enrolment at a school or university with health cover, or proof of sufficient resources with health insurance
- Your cita previa confirmation
§3The padró question
Barcelona International Welcome, the city’s service for newcomers, notes that the padró is generally not required for the registration certificate, unless your address differs from the one you gave before, on an earlier white NIE for example, and that some officers may still ask for it. Registering on the padró first takes the doubt away.
§4After the appointment
The certificate has no photograph, so carry it together with your passport or national ID: the two prove your residence as a pair. It is the document employers, banks and the health system will ask to see.
The police counters in Barcelona
Offices of the Policía Nacional, not ours: you go there for the appointment itself.
- 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
- 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.
- 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