Certificado de registro UE Cartagena: Europeans on the register

Who registers

Every European who makes this coast their main home: the retired couple from Düsseldorf in Cabo de Palos, the Irish welder hired in the port, the French student at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT). Each person registers in their own name, children included.

Relatives who hold a passport from outside Europe take a different route, the family card requested on form EX-19. Register on the padrón (municipal register) of your town first if you can: it is the plainest proof of your address.

Evidence that matches your life

• Working for an employer: your contract, or a letter on the company’s paper
• Your own business: the registration that makes you an autónomo (self-employed) with the tax agency and Social Security
• Retired, or living on savings: evidence that your means are enough, plus public or private health insurance
• A student: the enrolment letter, an insurance or public-cover document, and your declaration that your means suffice
• Living with a registered European as their partner: proof of the link, and that person’s certificate

The folder for the appointment

• EX-18, completed, with your signature
• Your passport or national identity card (in date), plus a photocopy
• The 790-012, paid
• The evidence for your situation, from the list above
• Proof of your address here, such as a padrón (municipal register) certificate

Where it is issued

The régimen comunitario (Spain’s residence scheme for Europeans and their relatives) appears on policia.es at the Comisaría de Cartagena, C/ Menéndez y Pelayo 6, and at the brigade in Murcia. Book a cita previa for Murcia province under the trámite (procedure) for the EU registration certificate; the confirmation names your office.

Pay the Modelo 790 código 012 beforehand, one slip per person. The certificate is normally printed and handed to you at the appointment itself.