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Araba/Álava · Autorización de residencia de larga duración nacional

Long-term residence offices in Álava

Autorización de residencia de larga duración nacional is decided at an Immigration Office rather than at a police station, and Álava 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 Álava

Autorización de residencia de larga duración nacional 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 Vitoria - Gasteiz

    Vitoria-Gasteiz

    Address
    Calle Olaguibel, 1, 01071 Vitoria-Gasteiz
    Phone
    945759480 (Atención al Público y Cita previa)
    Opening hours
    Lunes a viernes de 9:00h a 15:00h. Cita Previa: Web: http://run.gob.es/cita_alava 945759480 - Horario oficina.
    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, 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, appeals, short-stay extensions, information on procedures

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 Álava that do not handle this

    These exist and deal with immigration matters, but Autorización de residencia de larga duración nacional 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 Vitoria/GasteizVitoria-GasteizC/ Oñate s/n, 01013 - Vitoria-Gasteiz (Araba/Álava)Handles: Autorizaciones de Regreso · Cartas de Invitación · Certificados y asignación de NIE · Estudiantes · Expedición de TIE · Informes de Nacionalidad · Prórrogas de estancia · Régimen Comunitario · Residencias 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
    • Complete copy of a valid passport, travel document or cédula de inscripciónCurrent at the time of the application.
    • Proof of the processing feeThe stamped form evidencing payment.
    • Report on dependent children's schoolingFrom the competent authorities, where the application rests on previous residence and you have children of compulsory school age.
    • Evidence of the special route, where one appliesFor those born in Spain, former Spaniards by origin, people who were under public guardianship, and stateless people, refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection.
    • Foreign criminal record certificate, where requiredFrom the country of origin or the countries you lived in during the five years before the application, showing no convictions for conduct that is an offence under Spanish law.
    • For a card renewal: passport, fee and one photographThe photograph must meet the requirements set for the Spanish national identity document.

    The conditions, deadlines and what happens if you miss them

    Other procedures handled in Álava

    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.

    The full Long-term residence guide — documents, fees and deadlines