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How to get a TIE card in 3 WEEKS with British Councillor in Spain Darren Parmenter—BayRadio Explains
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Jan 13, 2025
British councillor for Tourism & International Relations in San Fulgencio, Darren Parmenter, talks to BayRadio Digital to answer the following questions: 0:00:30 - Do I need a TIE card now? 0:01:30 - What happens after Brexit? 0:02:40 - Difference between permanent and temporary? 0:03:40 - How long does it take to get? Link to Spanish government’s TIE card guide (in English): https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/brexit/Documents/GUIDE%20BREXIT%20eng.pdf Link to website to make an appointment with the Oficina Extranjerías in your province in Spain (in Spanish): https://sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es/icpplus/index.html
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this is bay radio
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hello and welcome to busting this with
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bay radio
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in this episode we have asked darren
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parmenter the british councillor for
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tourism and international relations in
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the south of alicante about the tie card
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now many of you have still got questions
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about it and this will be the first of
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the series that we're going to take you
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through step by step
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how to get this card when should you get
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this card and do you really need it
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so let's see what darren had to say
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if if you have the green documentation
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already
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then it is not compulsory to change it
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in the ti card either before the end of
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december
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or afterwards end at full stop
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as an analogy it's a bit like me uh
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owning an old car
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and thinking well i'm i fancy getting a
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new car
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but no i won't get a new car yet i'll
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carry on driving my old one
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until i'm told i've got to sell my old
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one
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it's a personal choice to upgrade to a
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new one no one's going to turn around
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and say if you don't change to a new car
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you can't drive anymore
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it's a personal choice and i can't
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emphasize this enough
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there is too much misinformation and
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speculation out there
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about the work you know this phrase it
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is not compulsory
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full stop
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on the back of the card it actually says
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emmett
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article uh 18 4 accurate
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now that means that i've got this card
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and others will have that card
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because we come under the terms of the
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withdrawal agreement
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now new people applying for residency
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that's those that currently don't have
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the green documents and apply through it
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after the first of january so we're
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talking about first of january on but
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new people
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coming to live wants to come live in
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spain next year
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they can apply for residency of course
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they can uh they will have to satisfy
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possibly different criteria than what
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people are applying now
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because people are buying now come under
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withdrawal agreement
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so when they get their card say middle
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of february next year
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these new people coming to live here
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after january
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that won't say that they're here because
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of the withdrawal degree
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so in effect there will be there'll be
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two classes of british citizens living
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here
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after the first of january and that's
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that's always always been on the cast
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excuse the dreadful pun
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um people that are here before the end
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of the transition
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and those that make the informed choice
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to come and live here afterwards
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on your green a4 sheet or the green card
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it will actually say the date that you
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are officially resident from
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now uh i was i was asked yesterday well
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i've
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i've been here since uh july 2016. this
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particular person said to me
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should we change the tie card now i said
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well
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my advice is if you want to change it
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until july next year because then they'd
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have been here five years
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then wait when they go to exchange to
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the ti e card
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they will get a car that lasts for 10
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years
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if they went tomorrow to apply for one
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because they've been here less than five
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years
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the tie card that they get
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will be valid five years from from the
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date they apply say tomorrow so
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for anyone that is thinking well i'd
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love one of these cards
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but i've not been here five years yet
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it's entirely up to you again
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okay well uh first of all uh uh like
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many people followed the guide
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sent out um jointly by the spanish and
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british governments uh and
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explained step by step what you had to
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do now
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uh to actually get an appointment you
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you can do one of two things you can
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uh do all the process yourself or you
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can speak to a local head start
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or legal representative who can do it
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for you particularly
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if your spanish is at such a great level
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to understand the website
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in my case being here for so long i knew
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what i was looking for on the website so
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you went to the website
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we actually booked an appointment now i
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went on on the wednesday night i think
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it was
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wednesday evening the first appointment
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came up for the following morning
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literally 12 hours later i thought hey
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this is just too quick
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um but then others came up for the
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following monday and tuesday so i picked
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the tuesday one
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for 9 40. now my mom as well
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has also renewed her card so i did
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all the appointment for myself and then
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refreshed the page
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went on to try and get her appointment
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managed to get hers for 10 minutes later
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so in effect we had our appointments the
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same day
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so what we then had to do then was to
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fill in the forms
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online which you then download and again
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all the details are in the guide
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that are supplied by the spanish
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government in english
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but the forms aren't in english but it's
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very straightforward putting in your
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name address various other detail
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and they they give you full examples of
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what you need to do
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so once you fill the that particular
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application form in
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you fill the form you need to pay your
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12 euros
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that's all it costs for the tax as such
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to have it done so you fill that form in
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online
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and then download it so you end up with
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hard copies yourself
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you have to have your original green
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residence your document with you whether
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it's the a4 size or the card
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uh your original and a photocopy of your
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passport
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and when they say photocopy of the
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passport it's just the uh
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just the main page with your photos on
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there were some suggestions some weeks
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ago you had to photocopy every single
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page whether it
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had visas in our stamps or whatever but
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it's just the main
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uh biometric page um and also a
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photograph
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up-to-date photograph and in fact you
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actually get given that photograph
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back when you make the application
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process
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so once you've got your appointment you
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turn up at the
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at the office in alexandria the fact
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it's appointment only that
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means that there's not thousands of
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people queuing up to go in because you
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you've got
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a set appointment now in our case we got
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there about
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past nine we were back home in south
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augentia by half to ten
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uh we had a i was five minutes late
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going in for mine and my mum was five
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minutes late going in for hers
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and you actually probably sat down with
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the people in the office there's about
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seven or eight desks there it's all done
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very efficiently
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even taking the covered hygiene
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uh rubble's into into account you're
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well spaced out in
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um in the waiting room it's about the
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hospital you when you you
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your code comes up and you go into the
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particular desk
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um as i said there's about about six
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desks there they go through the just
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check the paperwork
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you haven't really got to understand any
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english because
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any spanish mother because all they'll
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ask you to do is put your finger on
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somewhere to do the fingerprint
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and sign here and that's basically it
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um you're giving a sheet of paper which
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is basically your receipt for everything
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that you've done
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and then they basically say to you right
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three weeks time
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you just go go back to the other
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foreigners office which is about five
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minutes away to pick up the card
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um no appointment needed there you just
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turn up
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and there can be a queue it depends when
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you go
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but you're literally in and out get in
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the car within two minutes but the whole
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process in terms of time
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was from going online to book the
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appointment
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to walking out of the office with the
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tie card
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and here it is it's uh just like a
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proper
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pro id card uh with a little hologram in
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there as well
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the whole process literally took just
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over three weeks
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