Life map
Procedures you may need in Spain, organised by life stage.
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My life in Spain
Just arrived5
- Municipal registration (padrón)✅📍
- NIE application✅📍
- Immigration appointment booking🔗
- Personal digital certificate🔗
- Register for Cl@ve🔗
Residence and nationality15
- Family reunification✅📍
- First TIE card✅📍
- Residence through settlement (arraigo)✅📍
- TIE renewal✅📍
- CCSE and DELE A2 exams for citizenship🔗
- Changing from student stay to work or job-search residence🔗
- Criminal record certificate🔗
- EU long-term residence🔗
- Extension of the student stay authorisation🔗
- Long-term residence🔗
- Non-lucrative temporary residence🔗
- Replacing a lost or stolen TIE🔗
- Residence card for family members of EU citizens / of Spanish nationals🔗
- Return authorisation🔗
- Spanish nationality by residence🔗
Work and business17
- Registering as self-employed✅
- Annual income tax return (IRPF)🔗
- Deregistering as self-employed🔗
- Employment history report🔗
- Lump-sum payment of unemployment benefit🔗
- Quarterly income tax prepayment for the self-employed (form 130)🔗
- Reduced flat-rate contribution for new self-employed workers🔗
- Registering a domestic worker with Social Security🔗
- Registering as a job seeker🔗📍
- Self-employed contributions based on actual income🔗
- Social Security number🔗
- Spanish tax residence certificate🔗
- Tax census registration to start a business (form 036)🔗
- Temporary incapacity (sick leave benefit)🔗
- Unemployment allowance🔗
- Unemployment benefit🔗
- VAT return (form 303)🔗
Housing6
- Applying for public rental housing from the Agencia de Vivienda Social (Community of Madrid)🔗📍
- Proof of registration (volante / certificado)🔗📍
- Property tax (IBI) — Madrid City Council🔗📍
- Property transfer tax when buying a second-hand home (Community of Madrid)🔗📍
- Rental deposit registration🔗📍
- Youth rent subsidy🔗📍
Education7
- Admission to Official Language Schools (EOI)🔗📍
- Admission to public nursery schools (ages 0–3)🔗📍
- Government study grants🔗
- Recognition of foreign qualifications🔗
- School admission (public schools)🔗📍
- School meal grants🔗📍
- University entrance exam (PAU)🔗📍
Healthcare6
- Booking an appointment at your health centre🔗📍
- Childhood vaccination schedule (Comunidad de Madrid)🔗📍
- Choosing a family doctor and health centre🔗📍
- European Health Insurance Card🔗
- Health card🔗📍
- Special agreement for public healthcare (for people without public healthcare entitlement)🔗📍
Transport9
- DGT environmental sticker🔗
- Driving in Spain with a Chinese licence🔗
- Getting a Spanish driving licence (test)🔗
- Public transport pass (abono)🔗📍
- Renewing a Spanish driving licence🔗
- Traffic fines (DGT)🔗
- Vehicle ownership transfer🔗
- Vehicle roadworthiness test (ITV)🔗📍
- Vehicle tax (IVTM) — Madrid City Council🔗📍
Family8
- Birth registration✅
- Birth and childcare benefit🔗
- Child support supplement🔗
- Civil marriage🔗
- Large family certificate (título de familia numerosa)🔗📍
- Maternity tax deduction (and advance payment, form 140)🔗
- Minimum Living Income🔗
- Registering a civil partnership (unión de hecho) in the Community of Madrid🔗📍
Retirement and end of life8
- Certificate of last will🔗
- Death grant (funeral expenses)🔗
- Death registration and death certificate🔗
- Inheritance and Gift Tax in the Community of Madrid🔗📍
- Non-contributory retirement and disability pension (Community of Madrid)🔗📍
- Recognition of dependency status (long-term care)🔗📍
- Retirement pension🔗
- Widow's or widower's pension🔗