Pamplona/Iruña · Burlada · Barañáin · Tudela — NIE, TIE and padrón
In Pamplona the police sections for foreigners and the Oficina Única de Extranjería share one building, Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 in Buztintxuri. We tell you which section your case belongs to, prepare the application and its fee slip alongside you, and keep looking for a cita previa with you.
Pamplona is the capital of Navarra and the first big city on the Camino Francés, and plenty of people who arrive here stay: students and researchers, workers in the industry around the Cuenca de Pamplona, families joining a relative.
Settling in has its own route, marked not by yellow arrows but by forms and appointments: the NIE, then the EU certificate or the TIE, then the padrón. We guide you through each stage, so every stamp lands in the right place.
No permit needed. Past three months, the EX-18 makes you a registered resident, and the green certificate is issued at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 or in Tudela.
Start at stage 02: The EX-18 green certificateFirst a visa or an authorisation, then the TIE: fingerprints at the Recogida de tarjetas section, a resguardo, and the card. Britons resident before 2021 hold the Withdrawal Agreement card.
Start at stage 05: Your TIE, from prints to cardEuropeans register as students or workers; others arrive on a study visa or the authorisation of their post, then request the TIE and, in time, the extension.
Start at stage 06: Students and researchersEvery request crosses the same four boxes, whatever the procedure. We fill each one with you before you set foot in an office.
Write to us with three facts: the passport you hold, the town in Navarra where you will live, and the date everything hangs on (a contract that starts, a deed to sign, a term that opens). We answer by e-mail with your procedure and the section at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 that handles it.
We sit down with you over the EX form and the fee slip, gather the proof your case requires, and test each document against what the procedure demands, all before a slot is taken.
We search the booking system for a slot in Navarra that suits you, and go through the confirmation together: procedure, address, section, hour.
A few lines before the day: the entrance, the folder, the order of the papers. Afterwards we point the next arrow, whether it leads to card collection, the padrón, the Seguridad Social or a notaría.
14 panels, one per procedure. Each says who it is for, which form it takes and where it is stamped; open the one you are standing at.
EU, EEA and Swiss citizens register; they never need a visa.
Stage 01
When the EX-15 on its own is the right form, when the number comes folded into another document, and the section at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 that assigns it. Tudela too.
Stage 02
Staying past three months with a European passport: the EX-18, the proof each ground calls for, and the Buztintxuri section that issues it.
Stage 03
The administration’s online booking, read the way Navarra’s offices use it: the province, the procedure, the office, the confirmation, and the e-mail contact of each police section.
Stage 04
The form that pays for police procedures: generating it, ticking the right box, paying, keeping the stamped copy, and asking for a refund at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40.
British passports belong here since Brexit.
Stage 05
For non-EU residents: the fingerprint appointment, form EX-17, the resguardo, and the handover of the card by the section at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40, or in Tudela.
Stage 06
Studying or researching in Pamplona: the green certificate for Europeans; for others the visa, the TIE and the extension, with both the police and the Oficina Única listing student matters.
Stage 07
Since Brexit a UK passport is a non-EU one. Pre-2021 residents carry a TIE under the Withdrawal Agreement and can swap an old green certificate for it; newcomers need a visa.
Stage 08
When a European lives in Navarra and their spouse, partner, child or parent holds no EU passport: form EX-19, the Oficina Única that lists the card, and the fingerprints that follow.
Stage 09
Settling in Navarra on savings or a pension, without working: a visa from the consulate first, then the TIE in Pamplona, then renewals with the Oficina Única.
Stage 10
An autorización de regreso covers a trip abroad while a non-EU resident’s card is in renewal or being replaced. In Pamplona, the “regresos” section deals with it.
The building, the booking and the town hall.
Stage 11
Before your first payslip: two numbers whatever your passport, and for non-EU workers an authorisation that comes before the visa.
Stage 12
From the arras to the deed: why the notary asks for a NIE, three ways for a buyer abroad to get one, and the power of attorney when you cannot be there.
Stage 13
Extranjería Pamplona at one address in Buztintxuri: the five police sections and their e-mail contacts, the Oficina Única and its hours, and the Comisaría de Tudela.
Stage 14
Registering your address with the Ayuntamiento de Pamplona/Iruñeko Udala: the citizen office on Calle Mayor, booking by 010 or online, the papers, certificates and renewals.
Pamplona/Iruña on the ground
Every foreigners’ procedure in Navarra leads to one of two places. In Pamplona/Iruña, Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 (bajo) holds the police sections for the NIE, EU certificates, the TIE and return authorisations, and the Oficina Única de Extranjería, which decides permits and receives the public until 14:00 on weekdays. In the Ribera, the Comisaría de Tudela, Plaza Padre Lasa 7 (948 402 514), lists TIE issue, NIE assignment, EU certificates, residence certificates and letters of invitation. policia.es lists no foreigners’ unit in Estella-Lizarra or any other town, and publishes no hours for the police, so plan around the hour your booking gives.
At Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40, on the ground floor, in Buztintxuri, work two parts of the State. The Policía Nacional’s Unidad de Documentación de Extranjeros (a Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras, in the words of policia.es) has five sections: Personal comunitarios y regresos for the NIE, EU citizens’ certificates and return authorisations; Recogida de tarjetas for TIE fingerprints and handover; the Unidad de Documentación de Extranjeros section for extensions of stay, address changes, fee refunds and information; Cartas de invitación; and Protección internacional y apátrida. Each has its own e-mail contact on the Delegación del Gobierno’s page, and policia.es gives the unit’s phone, 948 979 200, but no hours. Beside them, the Oficina Única de Extranjería de Navarra decides authorisations to study, live, work and join family, from 9:00 to 14:00 each weekday.
Stage 13 · Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40, section by sectionPolicía Nacional
Brigada Provincial de Extranjería y Fronteras de Pamplona · Policía Nacional
Handles NIE certificates and NIE assignment, registration of EU citizens, issue of the TIE, return authorisations, students, extensions, non-lucrative residence, asylum, travel documents
No opening hours are published for the police sections.
Delegación del Gobierno
Delegación del Gobierno en Navarra
Handles Applications for study stays, non-lucrative residence, family reunification, residence and work, modifications, appeals
Policía Nacional
Policía Nacional
Handles Issue of the TIE, NIE assignment, certificates for EU citizens, residence certificates, letters of invitation
The Delegación del Gobierno’s page gives the address and a map, but no transport. The villavesas of the Transporte Urbano Comarcal have a stop named after the building, stop 306, “Avda. Gipuzkoa, nº 40”; its official page did not list the lines that call there when we read it, so check them on the villavesa site before you travel.
For the padrón the police play no part: it belongs to the Ayuntamiento. The Oficina de Atención Ciudadana (Herritarrendako Arreta Bulegoa), Calle Mayor 2, ground floor, registers residents between 8:30 and 14:30 on weekdays, by cita previa on 010 (948 420 100 from outside Pamplona or from a mobile) or online, free of charge. Europeans can register with their EU identity card or passport. For newcomers, the Gobierno de Navarra’s first-reception service, the SIOB, has a point on Avenida Roncesvalles, and the Ayuntamiento’s Unidades de Barrio issue the integration and housing reports some files need.
Stage 14 · The padrón in Pamplona/IruñaFrom the Casco Viejo/Alde Zaharra, the Ensanches, San Juan, Iturrama, Mendebaldea, Rochapea, Txantrea, Buztintxuri and Milagrosa to Burlada, Barañáin, Villava, Ansoáin, Berriozar and Zizur Mayor, and south to Tudela: the same booking system for all of Navarra, and a separate padrón in every municipality.
Through the Cita Previa de Extranjería at sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es: choose Navarra, then the procedure, then the office if one is offered. Booking costs nothing; the confirmation will say Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 or Tudela.
At Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 (bajo), in Buztintxuri: the Policía Nacional’s sections for foreigners and the Oficina Única de Extranjería de Navarra share the address. In the south, the Comisaría de Tudela on Plaza Padre Lasa also handles the NIE, EU certificates and the TIE.
An EX-17 bearing your signature; your passport, visa page included, with a photocopy; one colour photograph; a padrón certificate; the paid 790-012; and the resolución when the authorisation was granted in Spain. The Recogida de tarjetas section takes the prints.
Personal comunitarios y regresos, the police section at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40 that the Delegación del Gobierno lists for EU citizens’ certificates; the Comisaría de Tudela lists them as well. The application is the EX-18, backed by a contract, an enrolment, proof of means or a family link.
At the Ayuntamiento’s Oficina de Atención Ciudadana, Calle Mayor 2, Monday to Friday 8:30–14:30, with a cita previa booked on 010 (948 420 100 from outside Pamplona or from a mobile) or online. It is free. Burlada, Barañáin and the other towns each keep their own padrón.
No. We are a private, independent service that helps you prepare. The police and the Oficina Única decide, and dealing with them without us is always an option.
Other guides on the way
This site prepares the papers and the appointments of a life in Navarra. Two independent companies can carry what we leave aside: AnchorLess plans whole moves to Spain, Gestoraz files NIE requests for people who cannot travel. They are private firms, as we are, and neither speaks for the administration.
AnchorLess, which plans a whole relocationFor people who would rather give one firm the visa, the arrival and the first months: families, retirees and remote workers moving from far away.
Gestoraz, when the NIE has to come to youFor people living abroad who must sign a deed or settle an estate in Navarra, and cannot travel to Pamplona for an appointment.
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