20 May 2011 10:18 PM:
I am trying to buy a car as a non resident and have beeen told by Citroen and by my (useless) solicitor that I needed to be on the padron. (the solicitor wanted to charge 90 euros + iva to do this for me).
I decided to try and do it myself, and went to El Ejido town hall with my passport, NIE, escritura and electric bill.
I was served by a very friendly English speaking man who told me that I CANNOT be on the padron as a non resident.
He said I needed the escritura, passport and NIE to buy a car. He even wrote a letter for me to give to Citroen explaining this, and stamped it with the official town hall stamp.
I hope this information will be of help to other people, and save some time and money.
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Empadronamiento
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