01A line per person
Every foreign family member, children included, needs an individual NIE. EU citizens each register for the green certificate; non-EU members each get a card, be it the EU family member card, a reunification permit or a visa route of their own. One household case, one line per person, and nobody slips through.
02Household sequence
- Secure a home: sign the lease, or obtain the owner's authorisation
- Register the whole household on the padrón
- File the main applicant's NIE or registration certificate
- File the other members' applications
- Sign up at the health centre and request school places
03Schools and health
Public school places in Zaragoza depend on your address, and health centres take you on according to where you live, which is why the padrón sits so early in the plan. Arriving mid-year? Ask about school places the moment the address is settled.
04Beyond paperwork
Papers are only part of a move. For housing, schooling and the wider move, AnchorLess relocation help for families covers the practical side of settling in Spain.
In Zaragoza
A family settling in Zaragoza meets two offices: the police on Avda. de Valencia n.º 50 for NIE and card appointments, and the Delegación del Gobierno's Oficina de Extranjería, Calle Obispo Covarrubias s/n, which lists reunification and the card for relatives of EU citizens among its procedures. The padrón belongs to the ayuntamiento of whichever town you live in.
Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras de Zaragoza
- Address
- Avda. de Valencia n.º 50, 50005 Zaragoza
- Phone
- 976 791 495
Handles
- NIE certificates and assignment
- EU citizens (régimen comunitario)
- TIE issue
- return authorisations (autorizaciones de regreso)
- students
- extensions (prórrogas)
- non-lucrative residence
- asylum
- travel documents and identity documents (cédulas)
The police page gives no opening hours: go at the time your cita previa confirmation gives.
Oficina de Extranjería en Zaragoza, Sede 1 (Delegación del Gobierno en Aragón)
- Address
- Calle Obispo Covarrubias, S/N, 50005 Zaragoza
- Phone
- 976 980 020
- Hours
- Winter (16 September to 15 June): Monday to Thursday 09:00–17:30, Friday 09:00–14:00. Summer (16 June to 15 September): Monday to Friday 09:00–14:00
Handles
- Authorisations: work, family reunification, arraigo, the card for a family member of an EU citizen, appeals
Its page says the NIE, the TIE, the EU registration certificate, residence certificates and invitation letters are done at the police Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras and the Unidad de Documentación de Extranjeros, whose address it does not give. It also lists the EU registration certificate among its own procedures: your appointment confirmation names the office.
Questions
Each person needs a separate slot. We try to book them close together so the trips stay few.
Then your spouse requests the EU family member card with form EX-19 after your own registration.
The household normally follows the main applicant's route, through reunification or visas granted together. We study your case and fix the order.