This is a guide specifically for Auxiliares de Conversación

You finished the NALCAP renewal process and have just received your Carta de Nombramiento. Now, you can finally renew your TIE.

In order to remain in the program, it is essential to renew your TIE. You can start the process after you receive your Carta de Nombramiento and at a maximum of 60 days before the expiration date of your current TIE.

The TIE can be renewed up to 90 days after its expiration. The only alternative to renewing your TIE would be restarting the visa process from the United States just as you did the first time when entering Spain. This is a completely valid option, but I’m sure you remember how difficult the process can be. (and staying over 90 days past your visa expiration without renewing means you overstayed your visa).

Being able to stay in Spain past the expiration date does not mean you can leave and re-enter Spain. For that you would need an unexpired TIE, an unexpired Visa, or a regreso (this is covered later).

Making a fresh visa application is a completely valid option, but I’m sure you remember how difficult the process can be.

If your TIE expires during the renewal process, do not worry. It is completely normal. You are allowed to stay during the renewal process.

During the renewal process, you can apply for a Regreso to have permission to leave and return to Spain within a 90 day period. This would allow you to visit your family during the Summer. If you plan on staying in the U.S. for the entirety of the Summer break, you would exceed the 90 day permission and would need to apply for a new visa from the U.S.

Autorización de Regreso

Before you buy your flight, please know that you need your Carta de Nombramiento to even start the renewal process. Only after you apply for prórroga (TIE renewal) can you receive a Regreso.

The TIE renewal process will be similar to your first TIE application with a few key differences. During the process, however, they will take your old TIE before providing you with a new one. I recommend saving a digital copy of your old TIE.

Requirements

Step 1 – Submit Documents at an Oficina de Registro or Oficina de Extranjeria (Prórroga)

During this step, you will present your documents to have them registered at an Oficina de Registro or Oficina de Extranjeria. At this appointment, you will receive a resguardo (usually a stamped copy of your application) which can be used for your Regreso.

Ojo! For those of you changing regions, you will have to send your prórroga application to the province in which you will be living for the upcoming school year. This can be done in 3 ways:

• Applying online and sending your application to the corresponding province.
• Applying in person at the province in which you will be living.
• Directing your application to the Oficina de extranjería within the province you will be moving to in the application form (will be explained in the application form section).

Below are the requirements:

• Get an Appointment
• New and Old Carta de Nombramiento + Copies
• Tie + Copy
• Passport + Copy of all Pages
• Completed EX-00 Form + Copy
• Tasa 790-052
• Certificado de Aprovechamiento + Copy
• Proof of Health Insurance + Copy***

***The insurance policy for NALCAP participants starts on October 1st and ends May 31st which means you will be uninsured for 4 months during the Summer. Having health insurance is a requirement to apply for renewal. Your carta de nombramiento states that you are insured during the program, so showing this will be enough for almost all regions and bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, depending on your region and luck, you may be required to purchase insurance over the Summer. This will be discussed more in the health insurance section.

Step 2 – Fingerprint Appointment (additional requirements)

Once you receive your “Resuelto-Favorable” notification, you can start the next step: the Toma de Huellas appointment. The official language from the source states that this process must be done within a month of receiving the notification. Personally, I have not seen strict enforcement of this rule (just like with the initial TIE application), but don’t dilly dally!

“En el plazo de un mes desde la notificación, el extranjero deberá solicitar personalmente la tarjeta de identidad de extranjero en la Oficina de Extranjería o Comisaría de Policía de la provincia donde se encuentre.”

Within a period of one month from the notification, the foreigner must personally request the foreigner’s identity card (TIE) at the Immigration Office or Police Station of the province where he or she is located.

https://www.inclusion.gob.es/web/migraciones/w/prorroga-de-autorizacion-de-estancia-por-estudios-intercambio-de-alumnos-practicas-no-laborales-o-servicios-de-voluntariado.

Bring the previous documents from step 1 with you (besides the EX-00 and previous Tasa). After receiving a favorable outcome in step 1, you will have your fingerprints taken. Below, you can find the additional documents you will bring. Again, please bring your previous documents from step 1.

• Get an Appointment
• Prórroga approval letter “Resuelto-Favorable” original + copy
• Empadronamiento + Copy (within the last 3 months)
• Foto de Carnet (New+extras)
• Completed EX-17 Form + Copy
• Tasa 790-012

Step 3 – Recogida de TIE

This is where you pick up your new card about 40 days after your fingerprint appointment. Make sure to bring your appointment confirmation, passport, old TIE, and resguardo. During this appointment, they will take your old TIE to be shredded.

Step 1: Submit Documents at an Oficina de Registro or Oficina de Extranjeria

Like everything, please double check the requirements through official sources.

Prórroga de estancia por estudios (inclusion.gob.es link)

You can submit your renewal either in person through an Oficina de Registro or Oficina de Extranjeria, online with a digital certificate, with a certified letter, or by phone. This guide will discuss in person and online applications.

If you are changing provinces for the upcoming school year, make sure to apply at an Oficina de Registro and direct your application to the corresponding Oficina de Extranjeria for your new province.

If you have a digital certificate and wish to save time and stress, you can submit your documents online.

Guide to Applications Online with a Digital Certificate

How to get a Certificado Digital

For those of you applying in person, make sure to bring everything in an organized fashion. This will include your documents plus copies, a pen, and a phone. During your appointment, you need to receive a número de expediente and a resguardo (usually stamped copy of your application). If this is not automatically given to you, request it!

The número de expediente is a sequence of numbers that will allow you to track your application status online, and the resguardo is a document that serves as proof that you successfully submitted your documentation. You will need it to apply for a regreso during the TIE renewal process.

Consult your Prórroga Status

Here is a quick guide to your status (Katy Crestol and Becky Kates):

Source: 2021-2022 VLC TIE Renewal Guide

“If there is something wrong with or missing from your application the oficina de extranjería will get in touch with you to let you know (I believe with a letter in the mail, unless you’ve got a certificado digital or cl@ve and marked on your EX-00 form that you’d like to receive electronic notifications).

Either you’ll get this type of letter in the mail OR, if your application was all good, you will get another letter stating that your application has been approved (your “resuelto favorable letter” aka “approval letter”) You will then need to take this letter with you to your toma de huellas cita.”

Once you receive your positive result, move on to Step 2: Toma de Huellas.

Get an Appointment

If you are not submitting your documentation online with a digital certificate, you will need to submit your documents at an Oficina de Registro or Oficina de Extranjeria. Remember, for those of you changing regions, you will have to send your prórroga application to the province in which you will be living for the upcoming school year. You can still attend an appointment at an Oficina de Registro where you are currently living. In the forwarding address of your application, make sure to include the address of the Oficina de Extranjeria for the province you will be in living next school year.

Oficina de Extranjeria: some provinces allow you to apply for prórroga directly through the oficina de extranjeria. This is great for people remaining in the same province. To check, go to the following address:

https://icp.administracionelectronica.gob.es/icpplus/index.html

Oficina de Registro: You can also submit your documents at an oficina de registro. Additionally, you can include a forwarding address in your application form, and the office will send your application to the Oficina de Extranjeria where you will be living next school year. Below, you can find a link to make an appointment. For those of you that have gotten a digital certificate, this will be the same place where you confirmed your ID.

Some offices allow walk-ins during office hours.

https://ssweb.seap.minhap.es/icpplus/citar?org=OIACR

There are various other methods depending on region, but between the 2 options above, you should be able to get an appointment to submit your documents.

Below, you can find another example for Madrid.

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Carta de Nombramiento

Bring 2 copies of your old and 2 copies of your new carta de nombramiento.

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TIE

Bring your old TIE with a copy of the front and back of your card.

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Passport

Bring your passport along with a copy of all of your passport pages (yes, all of them). They may only ask for your biodata page, visa page, and the stamped page from when you first entered Spain with your visa, but they also may ask for all pages.

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EX-00 Form

Complete the form and sign it. Bring the original + a copy of your completed and signed form. The guide is included below.

EX-00 Link

Section 1:

Section 2:

Leave Blank

Section 3:

The box under section 3 if checked will consent to all vital communications and notifications only being sent online instead of by mail.

“Para acceder al contenido del documento es necesario disponer de certificado electrónico asociado al DNI/NIE que figure en el apartado “domicilio a efecto de notificaciones”.

“To access to content of the document, it is necessary to have an electronic certificate associated with the DNI/NIE…”

“En ambos casos la notificación consistirá en la puesta
a disposición del documento en la sede electrónica del Ministerio de Política Territorial y Función Pública.”

In both cases, the notification will be available in the corresponding webpage for the document submitted at the electronic headquarters of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function.

Check your Status:

https://sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es/infoext2/index.html

Continue to the next page.

Don’t forget to finish the bottom part of page 2:

At the very bottom of the 2nd page, you will find a section where you can add a forwarding address. If you are not changing locations, this part can be left blank. However, if you are changing provinces, make sure to follow the instructions below.

To find more information about where to direct your application, please reference this link:

https://mpt.gob.es/portal/delegaciones_gobierno/extranjeria/extranjeria_ddgg.htm

Find the province you will be residing in for the next school year and look for the relevant office. Remember, the service you need is “Prórroga de estancia por estudios”.

If you are unsure about any part, leave it blank and ask your funcionario at the appointment.

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Tasa 790-052

The Tasa Modelo is a tax form you have to fill out and pay at a bank branch or ATM. This form is used to pay for your prórroga appointment. I highly recommend going inside a bank branch to pay the tax form with exact cash. This way you are guaranteed to get a stamped sheet back proving your payment for the TIE appointment.

If you have a local Spanish bank account, use your bank branch. If you do not have a local Spanish bank account, you can still use a physical bank branch without issue. I’ve had great luck with Caja Rural in the past. Just go up with your Tasa Modelo filled out, your ID (Passport), and your exact payment. To fill out the form, use the following link.

Tasa Modelo 790-052

After selecting your province, you will fill out the Tasa form online before printing it out and signing it.

Next, select 1.3: Prórroga de la autorización de estancia por estudios, movilidad de alumnos, prácticas no laborales o servicios de voluntariado (titular principal y sus familiares).

At the bottom of the page is a captcha and payment method request.

After filling out the form, download the form and print it out. Make sure to sign it! Bring the form with exact cash to a bank branch and pay the fee there. Make sure you receive a stamped form in return. This is your proof that you paid the Tasa. Bring it to your prórroga appointment.

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Certificado de Aprovechamiento

This is the approval letter from your school that you can request from your school director at the end of the school year. Feel free to copy the example I have below. Bring the original and a copy.

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Health Insurance

As mentioned before, you will be uninsured during the Summer from May 31st to October 1st. Having health insurance is a requirement for TIE renewal, but just highlighting the health insurance section of your carta de nombramiento should be enough for most of you.

Unfortunately, for some regions (and depending on your luck), you may be required to purchase Summer health insurance.

You can see examples of this online. They submitted their prórroga, but were declined due to missing “financial means and health insurance”.

This is not a problem I have experienced being an aux in Madrid and Andalucía, but it can happen.

If your application is archived because of missing documentation, you will have time after receiving your letter to rectify the issue and submit the missing documentation.

During my pareja de hecho application, my application was archived because my health insurance plan did not provide enough coverage. I was able to get a new private health insurance plan within a week to submit the necessary documentation.

Because this is a relatively common problem with Valencia, the guide written by Katy Crestol and Becky Kates does a great job of explaining your options for getting Summer health insurance without being locked into a year-long plan. (I highly recommend their other material if you are in Valencia)

Source: 2021-2022 VLC TIE Renewal Guide

You should highlight the health insurance and payment sections of your Carta de Nombramiento copy. Bureaucrats skim and don’t read everything.

I have personal experience with cancelling a plan through Adeslas. I bought a private plan to complete my pareja de hecho application in June of 2022. Starting October 1st, 2022, I received an Adeslas plan through my auxiliary position.

I was able to cancel my private health insurance through Adeslas hassle free because I was doubly insured with them. They even reimbursed me for the month where I had an overlap of both insurances.

You will be insured in October, so if you are able to hold out, that could be a solution as well. Again, being archived for a missing document is not the end of the world. You are given time to provide any missing documentation.

In the end you need to evaluate your own risk tolerance with the pros and cons.

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Step 2: Fingerprint Appointment

This would be your Toma de Huellas appointment at an Oficina de Extranjería just like when you received your first TIE. You will bring a few additional documents, and your EX-17 form will be just a touch different, but the process will effectively be identical.

Bring the previous documents from step 1 with you (besides the EX-00 and previous Tasa, of course) alongside the additional requirements listed below.

Get an Appointment

It’s the same as your initial TIE application (link)

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Prórroga Approval Letter

If you didn’t mark the consent to receive electronic notifications in your application, you should receive an approval letter at your address. Bring your approval letter and a copy.

Waiting for your letter isn’t completely necessary though. You can check your application status online and print the results once you receive “RESUELTO – FAVORABLE”. Bring 2 copies!

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Empadronamiento

During your TIE renewal appointment you are more likely to be required to submit an empadronamiento. They don’t always ask for it, but it is an official requirement, though, so make sure to bring it just in case.

The empadronamiento is not considered valid if it is over 3 months old. If this is the case, you can always request a new one at an Oficina de Distrito. No formal application required!

Whenever I’ve been asked for my Empadronamiento, I have given the Volante de Empadronamiento every time, and I have never had any issues. You can find out about the Empadronamiento process in the link below.

How to Empadronarse

The Volante de Empadronamiento is the receipt given to you when first applying for Empadronamiento. It will either be a stamped copy of your solicitud or a separate piece of paper printed with your Empadronamiento information. The official certificate takes about a month to process. If you want to be cautious, you can wait until you have the Certificado de Empadronamiento before attending your TIE appointment.

People have been rejected for just submitting their volante, so play it safe if you can.

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Foto de Carnet

The Foto de Carnet is a professional 32x26mm photo similar to a passport photo (2″x2″). You only need one picture for your TIE, but I recommend making extras just in case. You can easily get this done at any number of Photo Kiosks. These are found all throughout Spain in subway stations, bus stations, supermarkets, by police stations, and anywhere with decent foot traffic. It’s cheap and easy. Have the pictures taken. Carefully cut out the individual pictures, and bring an envelope with your picture(s) to your future TIE appointment.

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EX-17

Complete the form and sign it. Bring the original + a copy of your completed and signed form. The guide is included below.

EX-17 Form – If the link doesn’t work, you can always find the form during the appointment process.

Section 1:

Section 2:

Leave Blank

Section 3:

I recommend you do not check the box under section 3. This will consent to all vital communications and notifications being sent online instead of by mail. If you do not have a digital certificate or cl@ve, you won’t be able to access these notifications.

Section 4:

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Tasa 790-012

The Tasa Modelo is a tax form you have to fill out and pay at a bank branch or ATM. This form is used to pay for your TIE appointment. I highly recommend going inside a bank branch to pay the tax form with exact cash. This way you are guaranteed to get a stamped sheet back proving your payment for the TIE appointment.

If you have a local Spanish bank account, use your bank branch. If you do not have a local Spanish bank account, you can still use a physical bank branch without issue. I’ve had great luck with Caja Rural in the past. Just go up with your Tasa Modelo filled out, your ID (Passport), and your exact payment. To fill out the form, use the following link.

Tasa Modelo 790-012

After filling out the form, download the form and print it out. Make sure to sign it! Bring the form with exact cash to a bank branch and pay the fee there. Make sure you receive a stamped form in return. This is your proof that you paid the Tasa. Bring it to your TIE appointment.

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Step 3: Recogida de TIE

Again, just like your first TIE, you will need to make an appointment for about 40 days (or however long the officer told you) after your initial TIE appointment. Make sure it is at the same office as before.

https://icp.administracionelectronica.gob.es/icpco/index

The appointment process is nearly identical to how you made the Toma de Huellas appointment, so follow the same steps and finish making your appointment. Of course, this time you will be requesting “Recogida de TIE” instead of “Toma de Huellas”.

Bring the following documents to your appointment: your passport, the document given to you in the Toma de Huellas TIE appointment, your old TIE, and your appointment confirmation.

Wait in the Recogida de TIE line. offer your papers when it’s your turn. scan your fingerprints, and accept your new TIE!

Congratulations!

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