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Procedure · NIE Barcelona

Travelling before your card is ready: the return authorisation

Between the fingerprint appointment and the day you collect your TIE, or while a renewal is pending, you may have no valid card in your wallet. Leave Spain during that time and you need an autorización de regreso to be let back in.

Entry reviewed

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§1When it applies

  • Your first TIE has been applied for but not yet issued
  • Your TIE has expired and the renewal you filed is still being processed

§2The application

The request is made in person, with a cita previa, your passport, proof that your application or renewal is in progress, and the paid Modelo 790 código 012. Once granted, the authorisation covers a limited period, so fit the trip inside it.

§3Before you board

The authorisation is a document for returning to Spain. Ask your airline, and any country you pass through, whether they accept it, and carry the receipt of your pending application with it.

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

My renewal was filed on time. Can I travel without the authorisation?
A renewal receipt on its own may not be accepted when you come back from outside the Schengen area. The return authorisation removes the doubt.
Is it a kind of visa?
No. It is a permission to come back, issued to people who already live in Spain while their card is being processed.
Do EU citizens ever need one?
No. EU, EEA and Swiss citizens travel on their passport or ID card; the authorisation concerns non-EU nationals waiting for a card.

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