Proceeds from House Sale

You can obtain an N.I.E. number from the Spanish consulate at London or Manchester, Edinburgh, free charge.  You can download the required forms from this website http://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/buff/spain/nie-numbers/ along with other information on how to fill out the forms.

Davey

Hi all.  just to let you know i used a company called easynie based in murcia, tel 678 112 009.   chap collected me from my hotel, took me to murcia (queues not 2 bad) did the application.  the certificate was available a week later and he collected it and dropped it off at my solicitors, and even emailed me the numbers !  Great job done.  It definitely helps having someone local to (a) find the way to the nie station (b) speak on your behalf to the locals and also (3) to collect the form to save youhaving to extend your stay.  it cost about 85 € but definitely worth doing.

p.s.  forgot to say that the forms i had down loaded from the internet were the old ones and were incorrect, and if i hadn´t had the local advice it would have gone horribly wrong.   also the requirements for each area are different so a little local knowledge really helps out here.  Incidentally, a mate of mine applied in manchester for his nie number and had to pay 65 quid !   and it took 11 weeks for it to be delivered to spain!!!    good luck all! 

O.k. update time

Arranged to meet solicitor by e-mails at his office in Los Alcazares 12.00 last wednesday.

Turned up promptly at said time and was greeted with "do you have an appointment"? Showed him his e-mails. After checking through his huge(looked fairly empty) diary was asked to sit down (no our names were not in it). OOps!

Handed solicitor forms that we completed last summer but never managed to beat the Police queues in Murcia.

All necessary parts of form were filled already, parents details, passport details along with photocopies etc.

60 euros each was debited from our account with said solicitors who if I remember took 100% of their charges along with the first payment to Calidona.

Will have to wait around 20 days for NIE certificates to be sent to us.

Did we have to sign anything? No! "It's the new way of doing things"!

Realised we could have saved the air-fare by posting the documents if that was all that we intended but we did enjoy a short break in Murcia as well. Checked out loads of furniture stores/ lighting/air con etc.

Will keep you all posted as to whether this works for NIE.

Notice date of previous post.

Hooray! We've got our N.I.E. numbers at loooonnnngggg last (and after a couple or three e-mail reminders to solicitor. You know who!)

They were actually stamped on the 12th of march, so that didn't take too long then?

All things come to those who wait! Patience is a virtue! etc.etc.

Hi Steve, I know that feeling of relief well, ours took going on three months also  .

Anita.

Also received our NIE numbers last week.

Applied in London at Spanish Consulate (who stamp and basically act as a postal service) at beginning of Feb.

NIE numbers delivered to our Spanish solicitor who emailed to us.  Mostly effort free.

Just one thing to remember that when you complete you must take your ORIGINAL NIE document to The Notary as a copy is no longer acceptable

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