INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

PAPERWORK GUIDE
FOR FOREIGN BUREAUCRATIC AFFAIRS

• Before arrival
• After arrival
• Census
• NIE
• TIE
 BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL
First, congratulations on being accepted at La Salle. We are looking forward for having you on Campus.

Before you arrive to Barcelona, there are a few things you need to do:
1. If you are a non-EU citizen, contact the Embassy of Spain and ask about the visa requirement, and
book an appointment.
2. Look for an accomodation. You can check our accomodation guide by clicking HERE. Keep in mind
that EU citizens will need a contract of at least 3 months, and non-EU citizens will need one with a t
least 6 months.
3. As soon as you know when you will be here in Spain, book yourself all the appointments you need
for the paperworks. Check further down for the links and for more informations, Appointments are
available for two o three months from the day you book it. You have until the end of your visa to do
the paperwork for residency. 90 days may seem like a long time, but because of the appointments,
90 days is just enough time.
4. Please, take the time to read fully this document and see what is needed for you. The process is
not very complicated, but it is time consuming. For this reason, you need to do the corresponding
one to your case so you don’t end up wasting time.
5. If you are an Erasmus or exchange student staying for 6 months, you will not need to do any
paperwork for that. EU citizens will not need extra documents, and non-EU citizens should have a
visa of 180 days which is enough to cover the entire semester.
 AFTER YOUR ARRIVAL

THE CENSUS? (EMPADRONAMIENTO)

It is mandatory to all those who live in Barcelona to register at the Town Hall (Ayuntamiento).
This document will be required in future procedures (such as NIE, TIE, Homologation, or others).

1 REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
• Original passport and one copy or valid Residence card (TIE).

• Original documents that certifies your residency*: house tittle, rental contract (not older than
5years and valid for 6 months at least), and one of the last bills (water, gas, electricity) stating
thename and the address of the applicant.
*In case you are not the owner of the property or in case you don’t have a rental contract, to obtain the registration
as resident, you will need a signed authorization from the owner and a copy of his/her ID. All the documents must be
original and in Spanish/Catalan.

2 BOOK THE APPOINTMENT

We recommend to book your appointment as soon as you have your accomodation contract signed.
Even if you are not physically here in Spain, book it as soon as possible right after your flight.
Appointments are very limited and it can take up to 2 months to get one.
After having your documentation ready, you will need to book an appointment. To do that, click on
the following link.

3 INSTRUCTION TO BOOK THE APPOINTMENT

Open the link above, where it says “Solicitud de una cita“, press “CONTINUAR“.
After that, fill in the form with your data.

Document type:
• pasaporte: passport
• permiso de residencia: NIE/TIE

Birthday:
day/month/year
00/00/0000

It is not mandatory spanish phone number.

 Now, there are two options:
If you want to go there presentially, select the following:

Here you put the date when you want the

appointment (check availability)

If you want to do the procedure telematically, via the phone, then select the following:

Here you put the date when you want to be called

(check availability).

Via the phone, they will give you additional

instructions.

Sant Joan de la Salle, 42. 08022 Barcelona

students-office@[Link]| [Link]/
+34 93 290 22 89
 AFTER YOUR ARRIVAL

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTER OF EUROPEAN UNION

CITIZENS (INCLUDES NIE NUMBER)

Who must do this procedure?

The citizens of countries included in the European Union (or Switzerland) and that are going to live
in Spain for more than three months should apply for registration in the Spanish Central Register of
Foreign Persons.
This procedure must be done by the student himself/herself.
You are allowed to do this procedure only within the 3 first months after your arrival.

Which documents are needed for this procedure?

The documents required to all of you are the following ones:

1. Application form EX18 (you will find it attached to this document, together with an information
page about how to fill it in).
2. Valid passport or identity card from your country of origin (original and one copy)
3. Confirmation that you are a La Salle-URL’s student (original and one copy)
But if you are not an Erasmus exchange student or an Erasmus Mundus student, you have to add to
the previous documents the following ones:
4. Registration Sheet at La Salle-URL (original and one copy).
5. European Health Card or a private health insurance policy that covers all risks in Spain during
yourstudies (original and copy).
6. If you take a private health insurance policy issued in your country of origin, it must be translated
into Spanish by an Official Translator..
7. A sworn statement of having enough economic means to cover your stay in Spain.

IN BOTH CASES, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE AN ERASMUS STUDENT, YOU HAVE TO ADD TO
THE DOCUMENTS YOU HAVE TO GATHER THE PROOF OF HAVING PAID A TAX

You can download the tax form from the following link:
[Link]

You will have to write in the top part of the document your personal data (name, address, telephone,
etc). Be careful because the first data you have to fill in is you NIE number and you don’t have it yet.
However, Police informed us that, when you fill in that field, it also allows you to write, instead of
the NIE number, your passport number, for instance. So, please, write your passport number or the
identification number of your country card.

Then, in the part whose head says: “Tarjetas de identidad de extranjeros (TIE) y certificados de registro
de residentes comunitarios”, you should tick the item:
“Certificado de registro de residente comunitario o Tarjeta de residencia de familiar de un ciudadano
de la Unión”.

When you tick this option, at the bottom of the page it will appear this amount: 12,00 €, which is the
right one for your tax.
In “forma de pago” (way of payment), please tick “En efectivo” (on cash). Then you can print the
document. You can pay this tax at any bank. And you have to add the proof of the payment (one of
the copies with the stamp of the bank) to the rest of the documents that you have to take to Police to
obtain the NIE card.

Where do you have to take these documents?

• It is mandatory to obtain an appointment for one of the Police stations that do this procedure in the
province of Barcelona.
• However, you are not obliged to do the procedure in the Police station of the locality where you are
living in. You can go to any Police station that appears in the list for appointments. You just have to
take into account that the date of the appointment is suitable for you and that the Police station you
choose is more or less far away from where you live. You will find detailed information about the
appointment in the file “How to ask for an appointment”.
• On the day of the appointment, you will have to go to the Police Office with which you have the
appointment (we enclose a map of the Barcelona Police Station for those that live in Barcelona)
• When the day of the appointment you deliver the documents to the Spanish authorities, if accepted,
you will receive a document that will include your NIE number (Number of Identification as a
Foreign Person).
 AFTER YOUR ARRIVAL

THE TIE (for non-EU citizens)

FINGER PRINT APPOINTMENT AT POLICE OFFICE (EXTRANJERIA):
• Book an appointment for fingerprint to any Police office (Extranjeria) in the province of residence.
• Original official form Ex-17 and a copy.
• Original passport and copy.
• Original Visa and copy.
• Photocopy of the entrance stamp in EU or flight ticket (boarding pass).
• Registration in the city hall – Empadronamiento
• Three photos passport size in colour and on a white background.
• School certificate – Certificate of enrolment.
• Receipt of payment of the tax payable in any bank (tax 790 code 012).
Option to select: TIE that shows the first granting of the authorization of temporary residence, stay or
cross-borders workers (the price is 15.76 euros). Link kere After the appointment, you will receive a
temporary certificate with your resident permit number.

After 4 weeks from this date, you can book another appointment to collect the TIE card to the same
police office where you attended the appointment or to the address indicated on the temporary
certificate.

When you go to get the residence card, do not forget to bring with you the receipt of the tax previously
paid (tax 790 code 012).