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cybie007

Mar 17th 2019 1:42 pm

Leaving Spain - NIE Number

When you leave Spain to return to UK or any other country do you need to "discard" your NIE number? If so, how do you do it? Will have nothing left in Spain, no property or bank account etc.

Monkey104

Mar 17th 2019 7:53 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

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Originally Posted by cybie007 (Post 12655473)

When you leave Spain to return to UK or any other country do you need to "discard" your NIE number? If so, how do you do it? Will have nothing left in Spain, no property or bank account etc.

if you are not coming back donâ€™t do anything.
about 12 years ago I went to Spain, opened a bank account and obtained NIE but the sale of the property we were buying fell through.
when we bought our property last year there was no trace of the NIE and we had to obtain another.

snikpoh

Mar 17th 2019 7:56 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

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Originally Posted by Monkey104 (Post 12655544)

How strange - your NIE stays with you for life (in theory)

spainrico

Mar 17th 2019 7:56 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

Keep your NIE but some other things to do (if you have not already)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/living-i...ning-to-the-uk

Monkey104

Mar 17th 2019 7:58 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

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Originally Posted by snikpoh (Post 12655545)

How strange - your NIE stays with you for life (in theory)

That is what we were led to believe. One reason given was that it may have been because both my wife and I have different passports From when we first obtained the NIE. Apparently the search is done on your passport number.

Forgot to add.. we had not kept a copy of the previous NIE either.

Fred James

Mar 17th 2019 10:39 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

That is a common problem. Many NIEs were issued against your passport. Of course, UK passports have a new number every 10 years on renewal, so finding a "lost" NIE is almost impossible unless you know the passport number used when you first applied.

dougal03

Mar 18th 2019 2:18 am

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

Perhaps Fred you can answer this.Are new NIE numbers being issued for British buyers just now or are applications being held back due to Brexit.New applicants will maybe have to rejoin a queue for non-EU citizens if the UK leaves later this month.

bobd22

Mar 18th 2019 2:49 am

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

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Originally Posted by dougal03 (Post 12655714)

No UK citizens can still get NIE and Residencia there are no changes to that untill we leave.

cybie007

Mar 18th 2019 12:49 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

Thanks for that. We will not be returning to Spain so how do we get rid of our Residencia if we ever got it. Left over 15 years ago and cant remember.

bobd22

Mar 18th 2019 8:56 pm

Re: Leaving Spain - NIE Number

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Originally Posted by cybie007 (Post 12656101)

Thanks for that. We will not be returning to Spain so how do we get rid of our Residencia if we ever got it. Left over 15 years ago and cant remember.

You should have completed the same form as used to apply for rsidencia but showing cancellation rather than application. I believe it will probably be redundant now after such a long time out of Spain?

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