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Applying for a NIE and Registering as a Foreign NationalThe procedures for applying for an identity number (NIE) and registering as a foreign national vary from place to place and year to year. Some or all of the following steps, however, are normal for EU nationals. The employer issues a letter (in Spanish) stating that it intends to employ you for the forthcoming academic year. You take the following documentation to the Central Police Headquarters (Dirección General de la Policía y de la Guardia Civil) for your province:
As the Central Police Headquarters in many provinces will only deal with a fixed number of applications per day, queues of applicants are frequently quite long. Accordingly, the staff in many places have devised a system whereby numbers are issued to the first arrivals each morning. Once they have issued numbers for all the applicants they intend to deal with, they tell the remaining aspirants to return the following day or they are given an appointment for another date.
The documents you are issued with by the Central Police Headquarters are extremely important and you should make copies of them for safe-keeping. You should also give copies to your employer. You should take the same care of the original documents as you would of your passport. |
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