snikpoh

Another good one for Spanish bureaucracy.

A friend of mine (English) rode his bike over and now wants to matriculate it. (BTW, he's only lived in Spain for 2 years.)

He went to a solicitor who pointed out that whilst he had an NIE (needed to buy their house last year), and whilst he was on the padron, he hadn't actually 'registered'.

I pointed out that this may be to do with the foreign register and, sure enough, they don't have the green A4 sheet.

The abogado filled in the necessary forms for him, he went down to the police station and have paid his 10euros. He has now been back 3 times but they have always been too busy to pick up the final 'document'.

I was shown the paperwork today, and the abogado has written down what he should ask for in both English and Spanish - and he is going to get a DNI CARD!!!!!!

I queried this with him and he confirmed that the police official confirmed that once he paid his 10euros, he would get an ID Card.

So, what the hell is going on when foreign nationals can get a DNI (ID cards)?



Doe NIE still stand for Número de Identidad/Identificación de Extranjero (i.e. foreigner/visitor)?

And does DNI mean Documento Nacional de Identidad (for Spanish citizens)?

elspeth sinclair

[QUOTE=snikpoh;8939054]Another good one for Spanish bureaucracy.

A friend of mine (English) rode his bike over and now wants to matriculate it. (BTW, he's only lived in Spain for 2 years.)

He went to a solicitor who pointed out that whilst he had an NIE (needed to buy their house last year), and whilst he was on the padron, he hadn't actually 'registered'.

I pointed out that this may be to do with the foreign register and, sure enough, they don't have the green A4 sheet.

The abogado filled in the necessary forms for him, he went down to the police station and have paid his 10euros. He has now been back 3 times but they have always been too busy to pick up the final 'document'.



NIE is the foreigner's identity card except that they no longer give you a card only a stupid piece of paper so many people have it down sized, stick a photo on it and plasticized and carry it with them and leave the A4 at home.

lynnxa

yes, that's what snikpoh is confused about - he knows it's supposed to be an A4 piece of paper


guess we'll just have to wait & see what his friend actually gets

JLFS

It is a strange situation, I have never heard of a British citizen actually getting a DNI card.....

There could be a possible explanation in that the rules for obtaining one heave changed.

I heard a rumour quite a while back, that a foreign national could get a DNI if they met certain requirements.

There was quite a long list, but a couple of things that stuck in my mind were that to qualify, the person in question would have to fill in a questionaire of 100 facts about the life and times of the lovely Belen Esteban, and be able to recite the lyrics to 50 Julio Iglesias or Manolo Escobar songs.

I believe most of thoses present said "sod it", and opted to keep the NIE.

lynnxa

I could probably get one then

JLFS

Oh noooooo, and I thought you had standards........

lynnxa

why do you think I'm


it will be interesting though, to see what snikpoh's mate actually gets, don't you think?

JLFS

He might get a 6 months stretch, for trying to obtain documents using fraudulent means.......

Anything is possible........this is Spain.....