Hola a todos,
I’ve just joined spainexpat. Thanks for the great resources that I’m beginning to uncover, here!

I’m an American and married to a Spanish citizen from Madrid. We’re going to apply for my residency and working papers in Madrid next year. We found this application for residency which is valid for five years and supposedly will allow me to work, as well:

http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_16.pdf

So far we’ve already got el libro de familia & el empadronamiento. We have yet to figure out where to obtain the processing fee receipt. (or where to pay said fee, but we’re assuming it can be done in the same office as the application.) Aside from the three photos, of course, I’m not sure if there are any other documents that he or I need to bring, or if there’s anything else we need to know or do to successfully get this processed.

Additionally, I had a tarjeta de sanitaria in Madrid a few years back but it is expired now and I am not sure how to go about 1. applying for a renewal or 2. transferring its registration and/or the registration of my working papers & residency to Barcelona (...which is where I will be living. He will still be registered as a resident of Madrid. Is it a bad idea to try and register any of these papers to my actual city of residence if it differs from his, or is this not a concern?)

Any help or advice that you can lend on any of these points would be incredibly appreciated!

buoyant673 - 05 November 2010 07:45 PM

Hola a todos,
I’ve just joined spainexpat. Thanks for the great resources that I’m beginning to uncover, here!

I’m an American and married to a Spanish citizen from Madrid. We’re going to apply for my residency and working papers in Madrid next year. We found this application for residency which is valid for five years and supposedly will allow me to work, as well:

http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_16.pdf

So far we’ve already got el libro de familia & el empadronamiento. We have yet to figure out where to obtain the processing fee receipt.  (or where to pay said fee, but we’re assuming it can be done in the same office as the application.)

print this
http://www.guardiacivil.org/quesomos/organizacion/operaciones/icae/docs/790_Codigo_012.pdf
and pay it in any caja

Additionally, I had a tarjeta de sanitaria in Madrid a few years back but it is expired now and I am not sure how to go about 1. applying for a renewal or 2. transferring its registration and/or the registration of my working papers & residency to Barcelona (...which is where I will be living.  He will still be registered as a resident of Madrid. Is it a bad idea to try and register any of these papers to my actual city of residence if it differs from his, or is this not a concern?)

the tarjeta sanitaria is issued by the centro de salud where you live officially and you choose the doctor from that area after you submit them a copy of your certificado de empadronamiento. so when you live in barcelona get empadronado there and go the centro de salud, show them the tarjeta sanitaria you got from madrid and your eu family member residence card and certificado de empadronamiento in barcelona get registered and choose the doctor there.

you may have to change your eu family member residence card to show you live in barcelona. your address is printed on the card.

Thank you, aritz!

Hola buoyant673,

I’m in a very similar position you are in although i’m an American man married to a Polish(EU country)wife and we are moving
to Spain to stay hopefully. We miss our friends and family there. Now we live in the U.S. I’m wondering if the application process is the same?

What were your processes? In what order did you file the papers?

We are flying to Spain in January to start the process and meet with some business introductions to feel it out but should i be filing anything beforehand? Polish and/or American Marriage licenses? Things to get translated? Start the process at a Spanish embassy here or start there? You know….

Any insight welcome. I’m a really good artist but paperwork makes my eyes go all bleary! That part of my brain has been transmogrified into something that uses more fuzzy logic for idea catching and visual problem solving. I’ve read about a million articles
on this great site but still i find that i have questions. I’m trying to find the most efficient way of making the transition.

If you could break it down for me?, what you filed?, maybe why?, i would really appreciate it. 😝 😜 :cheese:  😊

Have a great day,
Blue

Blue7 - 16 November 2010 06:53 AM

What were your processes? In what order did you file the papers?

We are flying to Spain in January to start the process and meet with some business introductions to feel it out but should i be filing anything beforehand? Polish and/or American Marriage licenses? Things to get translated? Start the process at a Spanish embassy here or start there? You know….

Hello Blue!
Here’s the steps we took:

1. We married in the U.S.

2. We then took the marriage certificate to the Spanish embassy, along with my husband’s passport, national identity and birth certificate and (I think?) my birth certificate as well, and registered our marriage in the U.S. as a valid marriage in Spain too, and thus received our Spanish marriage certificate (el libro de familia).

3. The next time we were both in Madrid (his hometown), he took my U.S. passport, el libro de familia, and his identity documents (including proof that he lived in Madrid, which in his case was the deed to the apartment that he owns) to several offices (I can’t tell you more beyond this because at that time I spoke virtually no Spanish and didn’t really understand much of what was being discussed in the various offices) and then by doing so we obtained my empadronamiento, which is one’s registration of city residency.

Keep in mind that I don’t know how the steps we undertook would differ in your case, as you are married to a Polish national.

Thank you buoyant673!

That helps me hone in a bit.

And if anyone else out there is a U.S. citizen married to an EU National NOT from Spain
but has gotten residency IN Spain please let me know some steps here?

We have registered our marriage in Poland, must we get some Polish paperwork to support this or is our U.S. Marriage
certificate plenty? etc.

I know i need my criminal record(of which there are no crimes)and the usual Birth Certificate and Passport and whatnot and the same from my Polish wife
and i believe i need to get them translated IN SPAIN but is there anything else i need to make a clean efficient way into residency with my Polish wife?

With respect,
Blue

Hello Blue. I am new here but like yourself I am a US citizen married to an Italian but living in Spain. We just moved here and I am still in the process of getting my residency but this is what they requested from me.

General requirements for married family of EU citizens (not spanish).
1. The original and copies of everything, except for the Marriage Certificate and the Certificado de Convivencia where they keep the original.
2. Passport, complete, with ALL pages photocopied for you and your spouse. Your wife will also need a copy of her current polish identity card.
3. Certificado de registro: your wifes residency in spain (she can apply after she receives her NIE) with current address, so you will also more than likely need a housing contract if she doesnt have a job to state why she needs the NIE.
4. Certificado de convivencia: you request this at the local ayuntamiento and they send the local police to your residence to prove you are living there.
5. Marriage certificate: translated and with an apostille. They keep the original.
6. 3 passport like photos.

Luckily for us, we found an apartment in the first week we were here and got the contract. From there we went and got my husbands NIE and residency in the same day. After a bit of running around and asking questions 😊, we asked for my certificado de convivencia and had it within a week, the day after we took everything to the delegacion de gobierno and they gave us a receipt. My residency will arrive within 3 months (they said sooner) and from there I will have my NIE and residency.

However, I came from Italy therefore my husband did not have to prove that he could support me monetarily. From what I understood, if we came from the US, he would need to have a job contract before I could apply for residency.

Also, we are living in the Canarias and the guy who works at our local ayuntamiento was way too kind and sat with us for 1 hour explaining everything, calling the other offices and faxing our information to the police to get them out to check faster. Needless to say we have been lucky in the aspect that we did everything in one week and now it is just a waiting game.  (I previously had gotten a spousal permit to stay in Italy and that took 3 months and many headaches, so this seemed easier)

If you have any questions, please ask! We just did this less than a month ago, so everything is fresh in my mind.

Best of Luck, when are you planning on moving and to where??

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