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Changing our residency from Valencia to Murcia

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:15am
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shegee71

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We have recently moved to Santiago de la Ribera from Torre de la Horadada where we have full  residency, can anyone tell us how we go about changing everything over to Murcia. We have had a letter to change our padron but do we need to change our NIE number  our health card and our residency documents. If we do where do we go to do this.

Thank you in advance for any information

Sheila

PeterC

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:59pm

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:59pm

We moved from Málaga province to Murcia, and changed the address on our NIE at the National Police station in Cartagena, though it took a while to get the appointment. You will need to register with the Murcia health service, and we did this at our Centro de Salud, our doctor making out a prescription sheet which is used by the farmacia, rather than the plastic card system of Málaga. Remember to change your car details at the town hall, and with your insurance company.

rma44

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:25am

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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:25am

I asked my solicitor if I needed to change the address on my NIE, and they said it wasn't necessary. Were they right?

PeterC

Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:01am

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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:01am

One of the problems is confusion between the Certificate of Residence as a foreigner, and a NIE. The latter is the equivalent of a UK national insurance number, needed to open a bank account, get a job etc, and nothing to do with whether you are resident or not. You keep the same number for life, just like a national insurance number.

The Certificado de Registration de Extranjero is often referred to as “residency” and it is compulsory to register for everyone staying over three months. After five years it automatically becomes a ‘permanent’ status, though it is safer to get it renewed showing this, especially in the uncertainty of the UK’s EU membership. It shows your address, your NIE and currently is a green credit-card sized piece of paper. This is what we renewed when we moved, as several organisations would not accept a change of address on their records without it. Typically they called it a “NIE”! It only costs a few Euros to update.

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