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Browse through this page to learn about:


  • Setting yourself up in Spain (NIE, Empadronamiento, Social Security)
  • Giving birth in Spain (Registration of birth, Passports and official processes)
  • Becoming Autonomo in Spain
  • Changing your Driving Licence to Spanish (It can take a year!)
  • ​Covid Documents (Cerificate to cross borders for work or care for people)




Setting Yourself up in Spain

  • Car Tax payment: Go to San Roque town hall with your NIE number.
  • Elderly Transportation Hire: www.facebook.com/Roadrunnerleisure
  • Empadronamiento registration: This link provides all instructions: www.sanroque.es/sites/default/files//files_documentacion/2013/06/instrucciones-para-el-empadronamiento.pdf
  • Foreign Residents Information Office (FRIO): The Borough Tourist Office, Palacio de los Gobernadores, Calle Rubín de Celis, s/n, 11360 SAN ROQUE Tel: +34 956 694 005 / +34 647 546 742 Email: foreign.residents@sanroque.es
  • NIE and Social Security set up:  Foreign Residents Information Office (FRIO), The Borough Tourist Office, Palacio de los Gobernadores, Calle Rubín de Celis, s/n. 11.360 SAN ROQUE,  +34 956 694 005 / +34 647 546 742 foreign.residents@sanroque.es​

Child Birth and General formalities
Midwives and Antenatal Classes:
  • The Irish Midwife:  http://www.irishmidwife.com/eng/welcome.html  (They run antenatal classes in English through the year in Nueva Andalucia (30 mins from Sotogrande)

​Register the Birth
  • Hospital report: Before you leave the hospital after giving birth be sure to get a hospital report of the birth:
  • Civil Registration: Attend the local registry office within 8 days of the birth (or 30 if you have good reason for not being able to attend earlier) to register the birth of your baby
  • Birth Certificate: Create a birth Certificate online: Look for 'LITERAL' certificate if you want to be able to apply for a passport in another country. 
 https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/ecertificados/solicitud/solcertnacimiento?lang=es_es&idpagina=1215197884559&idtramite=104
  • Contact your home countries (where you child is eligible for a passport) to register the birth and apply for a passport
  • Apply for a health card
  • Register your child as resident (You will first need the baby's passport, Spanish birth certificate or an official translation of non-spanish birth certificate, medical card, your residency card, a copy of your passport, 2 passport photos of the baby, photocopies of everything and a form EX18 (Not yet sure where this is, but likely at the civil registry or national police station)

Becoming Autonomo
The simple way: Contract a Bilingual Asesoria (approx 50.00euros per month) to set up all your formalities, pay your social security costs and manage and submit your quarterly and annual accounts. 


Changing Your Driving Licence to Spanish (It can take a year!)
  • Find a Gestoria to initiate this process for you and give them:
  •  Your driving licence and 2 photocopies
  • 2 photos  (Follow these directions: https://visafoto.com/es_permiso_de_conduccion_32x26mm_photo)
  • A copy of your passport
  • A copy of your certificado empadronamiento
  • A medical certificate from an official centre that does the driving test medical (there is one in La Linea, opposite the Gibraltar border and beside the traffic offices (ask at the taxi rank for directions, they will point at the building across the road).

​The Gestoria will then send the docuements to Trafico who will start the process of exchanging your licence. Be prepared for a lesson in patience - it can take anything from 3-9 months!

With a Gestoria, including the licence exchange, it will cost just under 100.00 euros. You can go direct to Trafico yourself and it will be just under 30.00 Euros  (They require you to book an advance appointment, which you may have to wait 3 months to attend!)

Covid Documents
Document to print and fill for autonomos who wish to cross the municipality borders and work outside curfew hours
modelo-desplazamiento-para-autonomos-cierre-perimetral.docx
File Size: 15 kb
File Type: docx
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Document to fill and print for individuals who want to cross borders to care for others
certificado_autorresponsable_de_desplazamiento_en_el_marco_del_estado_de_alarma_por_la_crisis_sanitaria_po[8922].pdf
File Size: 67 kb
File Type: pdf
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    • Fitness - Jojo Ruby France
    • Jiu Jitsu
    • Mums and littleones
    • Adventures
    • Summer Camps
  • Care and Support
    • The Care Team
  • Sotogrande Directory
    • Schools
    • Babies and Childbirth
    • Restaurants
    • Emergency Contacts
    • Stress Buster - useful info
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