registering for school
#1
registering for school
has anyone successfully applied for (& secured) state school places for their children before actually moving here
I'm talking recently - it's changed since we went through the process
do you register as resident before you actually move here (is this possible/legal?)
I know you can get a NIE without living here & it's possible to sign on the padron - it's the 'resident list' (what some still call 'residencia') I'm not sure of
I'm talking recently - it's changed since we went through the process
do you register as resident before you actually move here (is this possible/legal?)
I know you can get a NIE without living here & it's possible to sign on the padron - it's the 'resident list' (what some still call 'residencia') I'm not sure of
#2
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Location: Spain 4th feb 08 - October 11, now flits batck and forth from sunny Worthing
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Re: registering for school
Everytime we've wanted to get my daughter into a state school, we've just walked into the school and said "can she join please" (in spanish of course!!??) and they've said yes, given us forms to fill in and return, on which we wrote our preferred start date and thats that - in a nutshell!
Jo xx
Jo xx
#3
Re: registering for school
Everytime we've wanted to get my daughter into a state school, we've just walked into the school and said "can she join please" (in spanish of course!!??) and they've said yes, given us forms to fill in and return, on which we wrote our preferred start date and thats that - in a nutshell!
Jo xx
Jo xx
#4
Re: registering for school
Hi Lynnxa,
It's Sally here from the British Embassy in Madrid. There's some information on our website about residence requirements, which might be useful:
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-.../residence-req
Hope it helps to clear things up a little!
Sally
It's Sally here from the British Embassy in Madrid. There's some information on our website about residence requirements, which might be useful:
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-.../residence-req
Hope it helps to clear things up a little!
Sally
#5
Re: registering for school
Hi Lynnxa,
It's Sally here from the British Embassy in Madrid. There's some information on our website about residence requirements, which might be useful:
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-.../residence-req
Hope it helps to clear things up a little!
Sally
It's Sally here from the British Embassy in Madrid. There's some information on our website about residence requirements, which might be useful:
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-.../residence-req
Hope it helps to clear things up a little!
Sally
I know you need all that - I just wasn't sure if it was possible to 'register' before actually living here
logically I guess you can't - but then you can't register for state school until you live here, so can't really 'get the ball rolling' as it were
#6
Re: registering for school
*ahem* I think it might depend on the area/school etc. Ok littl'un's now at a n other place, but when we put him down for the local state school we weren't living here full time, and we'd hedged our bets and enrolled him at a state school in the UK plus the state one here - had padron, nie, but not residencia. Indeed I've only got that in the past year or so..... Anyway, they (school) wanted to see padron & nie, plus his inoculation stuff but that was it. Once the decision was made, he & I moved here full time & he was in school. End of, as they say!
#7
Re: registering for school
*ahem* I think it might depend on the area/school etc. Ok littl'un's now at a n other place, but when we put him down for the local state school we weren't living here full time, and we'd hedged our bets and enrolled him at a state school in the UK plus the state one here - had padron, nie, but not residencia. Indeed I've only got that in the past year or so..... Anyway, they (school) wanted to see padron & nie, plus his inoculation stuff but that was it. Once the decision was made, he & I moved here full time & he was in school. End of, as they say!
all we had to show when ours started was padron & NIE etc(although the kids didn't actually need a NIE either, although they had them) - but that was in the days of the old residencia
I was hoping someone who had done it in the past few months might know.......
I'm sure i read on somewhere (here maybe) of someone doing the 'resident's' bit before actually living here - which doesn't seem right
I guess it would just be a case of going to the Ayuntamiento/Casa de Cultura & getting a definitive list of requirements locally
#8
Re: registering for school
Applications started (from memory) April/May 2006, he started school in the Sept.
(off topic, but we didn't get him an NIE & I recently wanted to open a kids' savings account at the bank & they wouldn't without his NIE??? Is it as easy as adults?)
(off topic, but we didn't get him an NIE & I recently wanted to open a kids' savings account at the bank & they wouldn't without his NIE??? Is it as easy as adults?)
#10
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Re: registering for school
We have never been asked for our son's residency number at either school that we have applied to (in two different regions of Spain). I don't think it is a requirement for schools, as the children of illegal immigrants can go to school (i.e. people who don't have this number). I think the padron is essential as people have said, because otherwise people could just apply for all the best schools wherever they fancy.
#11
Re: registering for school
We have never been asked for our son's residency number at either school that we have applied to (in two different regions of Spain). I don't think it is a requirement for schools, as the children of illegal immigrants can go to school (i.e. people who don't have this number). I think the padron is essential as people have said, because otherwise people could just apply for all the best schools wherever they fancy.
ah well - I know someone about to start the process so I'll know if it's currently required definitively within the next week or so
my real query was for someone who isn't living here yet - can they register as 'resident' and get things moving?