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That is something that I want to make clear
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People that have the green document have the right to be in Spain. They should change for the new TIA document, but there is no rights to do it
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This is Bay Radio. Now, I did say it was a biggie
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We've had some big guests in this week, and today no exception, because we're going to talk the TIE card
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and still one or two questions about it. We've covered a little bit so far. Let's get the real story from a couple of ladies who deal with this pretty much every day
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at the moment. So Laura and Maria, good morning. Welcome in. Welcome along. Now, so you work
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a Hestoria, basically. And this is obviously a big part of what you do at the moment. So the TIE
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document, who wants to explain what it is? I do it. The TIE document is the new
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Targeta of Identity of Straneros for British. This card is a proper immigration card
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that has your personal details, pictures and fingerprints on it. As you know, when you know
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When British come to live in Spain, with their family, and they are here longer than three months, they need to register with the Spanish authorities
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Until now the British got the green card This green card is for European citizens and as Brexit is coming at the beginning of the next year Yes at the end of the year of course we out Yes if there is
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no new extension. Then there is a new card for British citizens living in Spain and the
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name is TIE. Until now getting the green card was relative easy. You just need to go to the
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closest police office next to your domicile and get it. Now the services for British
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are centralised in Alicante's office. You need to get an appointment in Alicante office and the
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process is a little bit longer. But at the end you get your car to live in Spain
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All right. So this is the TIE document. What we've heard so far, we've managed to clear
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up for people is if they do have the green original certificate, that's still okay to stay in
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Yes, still available. That is fine. That is something that I want to make clear
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People that have the green document have the right to be in Spain. They should change for the new TIA document, but there is no rights to do it
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They still have time to change it for the new TIE However we recommend to do it to change to the new TIE Why Because now if you get the appointment to Alicante and go down to the office
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and just show the green card, you straight get the new TIA document without nothing else
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We don't know if in future this will change. Yeah, I mean, Maria, there's a difference between people applying for residency
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to get the TIE document for the first time and people swapping over from, you know
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there are the residency document. Yeah. It's much easier, isn't it, to just swap over if you already got your residency
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Yeah, if you already have the green card, it's easy the process to change the card to the new TIE
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It's easier. Those who don't have the green card may submit the application to the immigration office
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of the province in which they reside. But this can also be done by electronic means
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This is a new process. if they have a legal representative, this submission way avoids getting an appointment at this point
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And of course, makes the process quicker as well. The head of the Immigration Office is the person who makes the decision of approving the application or not At the moment we are receiving some queries from them asking for further documents The most common query is regarding the economic resources They ask for proof of income
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such as P60 certificates, payrolls or UK bank statements. Sorry, this is for people that never had the green card
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Yes, as we say, there's quite a lot to do, there would be anyway, but for the first time
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applications for residency. So it is the you're showing proof of income that you can sustain
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yourself in Spain, of course. So how far do they go back? What are they looking for, is there
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a certain amount in your bank account or just, you know, for the last few months? What do they
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look for? They check both. They want to see a bank statement showing that you have income and
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enough income to live in Spain and also that you have expenses, which means that you are living
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here. But they also look at the money that you have in the bank account, the average balance
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the last months. I see. Okay. What are the forms do we need? I mean, you need, I think both
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am I right in saying that both people, whether you're resident or that you need to show the
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from your padron, so your proof of residency? Yeah, that's right. And update copy for the last three months. Okay. And that's the official one as well. It's not
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just a bill that gets sensitive to how. You need to go to the town
