Editing Barcelona (section)

=== NIE ===
''Número de Identificación de Extranjero''

* '''Which forms are required to apply for the NIE?'''
** [http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_14.pdf ex_14.pdf]: NIE application
** [http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_16.pdf ex_16.pdf]: Application for Certificate of Registration as an EU resident or family member residence card of citizen of the Union

* '''What documents do you need to bring?'''
** Passport
** Empadronado (see further down).
*** (Stefan): They did check for my empadronado, but I've read on other websites, that this is not necessary to have any more. Can anyone confirm that?
* '''How does the process work?'''
** You have to go to Oficina de Extranjeros in Calle Balmes 192 with your forms and papers. Once you're inside they will quickly check if everything is correct and give you a tax-payment form with which you have to go to a bank close by, pay €10.-, get it stamped and signed and return to the police station. A few minutes later you hold your NIE in your hands. Very easy process now. It was way more complicated some time ago.

** Some comments on banks: some won't let you pay for the NIE tax unless you're customer at that specific bank. Some won't let you pay for the NIE tax at all (Banco Santander). Caixa Catalunya seems to be the bank that works best. However, due to the huge amount of people coming to pay for their NIE tax and generating long lines, they've decided to distribute it over their different branch offices in Barceloneta. Meaning, depending on which day you're going there you've to look for a sheet of paper hanging somewhere in the lobby, saying which branch will accept NIE-tax payments on that day. Then directly go to that branch office, instead of waiting 15 minutes in the line and then being told that you've to go to another office.