Residence card (TIE)

The Foreign National Identity Card is the document that identifies foreign persons in order to establish their legal situation in Spain. Foreign citizens have the right and duty to request it once they have obtained a residency or stay permit over 6 months. The application should be made within a period of one month of entering Spain or of the entry permit corresponding to the affiliation and registration of the foreign national in the Social Security Regime coming into force. This is a personal document that cannot be transferred, and which has the same validity as the residency or stay permit (the one students have).

The staff of the Welcome Centre will inform you about how to apply for this card.

Foreign National Identity Card holders are obliged to carry this document at all times and to present it when required by police agents or in order to undertake the corresponding procedures. Foreign National Identity Cards are processed  only within Spanish territory at the Police Station in the place where the cardholder is to reside

Needed documents: 

1. Permit of the previous resolution (it can be the email message notifying of such a thing)*
2. Receipt of the authorization’s solicitation or the electronic receipt of its presentation*.
3. Passport
4. Previous TIE card.*
5. 1 id-sized picture: new, no black and white, and with white background.
6. Original census registration in case of changing places from the original one that should be written on your TIE card [if you haven’t moved then you don’t need to present it]
7. Receipt of the 790 tax 012 codeform the Ministerio del Interior. 
8. Signed contract.
9. Appropriate forms depending on context: 

•    Residence Permit with the exemption of any work authorization: EX-17
•    Residence and work permit according to 14/2013: model.

* Needed documentation in case of a renewal. 

Once you have the aforementioned documentation you must hand it in in person to the Office of the National Police from Barcelona’s province. For that, you will need to acquire an appointment via this website: Cita Previa TIE. Remember that you can ask for an appointment in every other Office, regardless of the one closest to your census registration information.

Note: If the authorization indicated in the resolution expires in less than six months from the moment it has been notified you will not need to ask for the emission of the TIE itself.

You are always welcome to contact the International Welcome Centre at mobilitat.pdi@upc.edu if you have any questions on these issues.