Arraigo offices in Alicante

The Immigration Offices in Alicante

Autorización de residencia por razones de arraigo is an authorisation, so it is decided at an Oficina de Extranjería under the Government Delegation — not at a police station. They are separate networks with separate appointment systems, and going to the wrong one is the most common wasted journey in Spanish immigration.

• Sede 1. Oficina de Extranjería en Alicante

  Alicante/Alacant

  Address

  Calle Ebanistería, (Polígono de Babel), 4 y 6, 03071 Alicante/Alacant

  Phone

  965019300

  Also decides

  Employed work and residence permits, self-employed work and residence permits, posted worker permits, residence and work for research, work authorisations for existing residents, exemptions from the work permit requirement, return authorisations, non-lucrative residence, family reunification, arraigo, other exceptional-circumstances permits, long-term residence, EU long-term residence, student stay permits, changing from one permit type to another, residence permits for minors, reports on temporary travel by minors, adoption visas, repatriation of unaccompanied minors, EU family member residence cards, expulsion and return proceedings, information on procedures

• Sede 2. Oficina de Extranjería en Altea (Alicante)

  Altea

  Address

  Teléfono: 96 501 92 60, 03590 Altea

  Phone

  965019300

  Opening hours

  Horario de atención al público: 9 a 14 horas

  Also decides

  Employed work and residence permits, self-employed work and residence permits, residence and work for research, work authorisations for existing residents, exemptions from the work permit requirement, return authorisations, non-lucrative residence, family reunification, arraigo, other exceptional-circumstances permits, long-term residence, EU long-term residence, student stay permits, changing from one permit type to another, residence permits for minors, EU family member residence cards, EU registration certificates, information on procedures

The offices, and what each one handles

What to take with you

Official fee

Set by the processing fee for the authorisation

• Official application formFor the specific arraigo route you are applying under.
• Proof of two years' continuous presence in SpainNot required for arraigo familiar. Time spent as a pending applicant for international protection does not count towards it.
• Criminal record certificatesFrom Spain, and from every country you lived in during the five years before entering Spain.
• Employment contract or contracts, for arraigo sociolaboralGuaranteeing at least the minimum wage or the collective agreement wage, totalling at least twenty hours a week.
• Social integration report, for arraigo social and socioformativoFrom the autonomous community or local council, issued within one month of the request. Covers time at your habitual address, your means, and participation in socio-labour and cultural programmes.
• Proof of means, for arraigo socialAt least 100% of the IPREM, available in Spain. It may come from the qualifying relatives, or from self-employment where the conditions are met.
• Enrolment evidence, for arraigo socioformativoProof of enrolment must reach the immigration office within three months of the grant being notified, or the authorisation is extinguished.

The conditions, deadlines and what happens if you miss them

Other procedures handled in Alicante

• NIE in Alicante5 offices — Alicante, Alcoy and Benidorm and others
• TIE card in Alicante1 office — Alicante
• EU registration in Alicante8 offices — Alicante, Alcoy and Benidorm and others
• Invitation letter in Alicante7 offices — Alicante, Alcoy and Benidorm and others
• Stay extension in Alicante1 office — Alicante