Bizkaia · Autorización de residencia por razones de arraigo
Arraigo offices in Bizkaia
Autorización de residencia por razones de arraigo is decided at an Immigration Office rather than at a police station, and Bizkaia has one. Below are the address, the phone number, the opening hours and the email address that actually reaches them.
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The Immigration Office in Bizkaia
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 Bilbao
Bilbao
- Address
- Calle Barroeta Aldamar, 1 (Planta Baja), 48071 Bilbao
- Phone
- 944509435
- Opening hours
- De lunes a jueves: 09:00 - 17:00 y Viernes: 09:00 - 14:00 Del 16 de junio al 15 de septiembre, de lunes a viernes: 09:00 - 14:00
- 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, 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, reports on temporary travel by minors, adoption visas, EU family member residence cards, expulsion and return proceedings, appeals
Source: Ministerio de Política Territorial — Extranjería en las Delegaciones del Gobierno. Checked .
The offices, and what each one handles
Source: Dirección General de la Policía — Unidades de Extranjería — Dependencias policiales. Checked .
Offices in Bizkaia that do not handle this
These exist and deal with immigration matters, but Autorización de residencia por razones de arraigo is not among the services they list. They are here so you can rule them out rather than guess.
- Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras de BilbaoBilbaoC/ Gordóniz n.º 8, 48010 - Bilbao (Bizkaia)Handles: Autorizaciones de Regreso · Cartas de Invitación · Certificados y asignación de NIE · Estudiantes · Expedición de TIE · Informes de Nacionalidad · Prórrogas de estancia · Régimen Comunitario · Residencia No Lucrativas · Solicitudes de Asilo y Refugio · Títulos de viaje y Cédulas de inscripción
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.
Other procedures handled in Bizkaia
Before you travel to one of these
Almost all of these offices work by appointment only, booked through the electronic office of the public administration. Turning up without one generally means being turned away, however short the queue looks. Office assignments also change, so if what is here does not match what you are told on the phone, believe the phone and tell us.