Expat ID card - future solution?
Aug 23rd 2009, 4:38 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
Actually not having the NIE number on it would not stop you using it for ID when using a credit/debit card in Spain and my French neighbour just told me she used her French ID card at the Spanish notary so I think they would be useful.
Aug 23rd 2009, 4:42 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
Gibraltar is in the EU but the normal customs exemptions and other EU policies do not apply.
http://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/latest_n...atus_in_eu.htm
http://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/latest_n...atus_in_eu.htm
Aug 23rd 2009, 5:38 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
Well - what's clear is that neither the UK nor Spain has much time for 'The Europeans' or whatever those of us are called who live in another part of Europe than our own.
'Cosmospolitans', maybe!
'Cosmospolitans', maybe!
Sep 1st 2009, 4:10 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
When the original ID card was being suggested some time ago, it was not going to be available to non UK residents.
There is nothing on their current website to confirm or deny this.
I have contacted the IPS for clarification.
The new ID card will not be generally available until 2012.
There is nothing on their current website to confirm or deny this.
I have contacted the IPS for clarification.
The new ID card will not be generally available until 2012.
I have had a (typically vague) response from the UK IPS as follows.
"With regards to your specific enquiry, the identity card will be available to all United Kingdom residents and British citizens living abroad will not need cards, although the Identity Cards Act 2006 is sufficiently flexible to allow regulations to be made enabling British citizens resident overseas to register, when suitable infrastructure is available, for example before returning to live in the United Kingdom."
Sep 1st 2009, 4:28 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
That is ridiculous - why do they not encourage everyone after all it will not be free.
Sep 1st 2009, 5:06 am
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Re: Expat ID card - future solution?
Si Senor!
