Minors' programmes offices in Lleida

The Immigration Office in Lleida

Desplazamiento temporal de menores extranjeros en el marco de programas de carácter humanitario 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.

The ministry's page for Lleida does not name this procedure among the services it itemises for these offices. They are the province's Immigration Offices, which is where authorisations of this kind are decided, but ring ahead before travelling rather than relying on that.

• SEDE 1. Oficina de Extranjería en Lleida

  Lleida

  Address

  Subdelegación del Gobierno en Lleida, 25007 Lleida

  Phone

  973959213 (Centralita/Información)

  Also decides

  Employed work and residence permits, self-employed work and residence permits, posted worker permits, residence and work for research, exemptions from the work permit requirement, short-stay extensions, 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, adoption visas, repatriation of unaccompanied minors, EU family member residence cards, expulsion and return proceedings, appeals, asylum and refuge, information on procedures

The offices, and what each one handles

What to take with you

Official fee

The promoter must commit in writing that the child's return costs the public purse nothing, unless a competent body has expressly assumed that cost beforehand

• Express prior authorisation from the holders of parental authorityOr of guardianship or custody, for the child's displacement to Spain.
• Favourable report from the regional child protection bodyOn the programme, stating that it is humanitarian, requested by the promoter.
• Criminal record and sexual offence certificatesFrom the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, for every person over fourteen who will live with the child.
• Written undertaking from the promoter on the returnTo facilitate the return to the country of origin, and that it costs the public purse nothing unless a competent body expressly assumed that cost beforehand.
• Written statement from the host familyConfirming they know the displacement is not for the purpose of adoption, and undertaking to favour the child's return.
• For medical stays: health authority reportJustifying that specialised care must continue and cannot be continued in the child's place of origin. Updated at each renewal.
• For school placements: proof of admissionAt an officially recognised teaching centre in Spain.
• Travel documentsIndividual or collective passports, safe conducts or other travel documentation, checked by the consulate.

The conditions, deadlines and what happens if you miss them

Other procedures handled in Lleida

• NIE in Lleida3 offices — Lleida, la Seu d'Urgell and Les
• TIE card in Lleida2 offices — Lleida and Les
• EU registration in Lleida1 office — Lleida
• Invitation letter in Lleida1 office — Lleida
• Stay extension in Lleida1 office — Lleida
• Return authorisation in Lleida1 office — Lleida