A wallet goes missing on a Sunday in Nerja. A couple sells the rental they took for the first winter and buys in the hills behind Marbella. Neither event feels like an immigration matter. One is a nuisance and the other is good news, and both get filed under “deal with it next week” by people who have already survived a consular appointment and a fingerprint queue and reasonably feel they have done their share of Spanish paperwork.
They are the same matter, and the reason is worth stating plainly before anything else. The card in your pocket and the address in the file are the two things that let the Spanish administration identify you and reach you. Lose the first and you have an inconvenience with a fee attached. Lose the second and, some months later, a decision about your right to live in Spain is taken in a building you have never visited, communicated to a letterbox you no longer own, and then — entirely lawfully — published in the Official State Gazette, at which point you are notified whether you read it or not.
On this page
The short answer What the card is, and what it is not Replacing it: a duplicate is not a renewal The police report, and where to make it The appointment, the fee and the documents Flying while you wait: the return authorisation The move nobody reports The padrón is a different obligation, and it expires Why a stale address is the expensive one Where this collides with your renewal If the US passport went with it Every duty, deadline and fee in one place Frequently asked questions
“The clients who lose a card call us the same afternoon. The clients who move house call us eleven months later, when the renewal has already been decided and archived. The second call is the difficult one, and the second problem was the one that could have been solved with a single appointment.”
— Lola Jurado · Registered lawyer, Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Málaga · colegiada nº 10907
The short answer
If the card is lost or stolen: report it to the police, book a cita previa for the fingerprint and card-issue appointment in the province where you live, pay the fee on form 790 code 012, and take form EX-17 in person with your passport, one photograph and the police report. The replacement carries your original expiry date. If you need to travel before it arrives, apply for a return authorisation as well, and fly into Spain directly.
If you have moved: you owe two separate notifications to two different bodies. Register at the town hall of your new municipality, and notify the police station for your new address within one month. Then, whatever else you do, make sure the file the administration will use to reach you contains an address that exists, or a consent to notify you electronically instead.
What the card is, and what it is not
The tarjeta de identidad de extranjero is not, despite the name, your identity document. The Ministry of the Interior is unusually direct about this on its own guidance: a foreign national proves identity through the documentation issued by their own country, not through the TIE, which evidences administrative situation. Your identity is in your passport. What the card carries is the answer to a different question — on what basis are you here, and until when.
That distinction is the reason a lost card is a nuisance rather than a catastrophe. You have not become undocumented. You have become unable, on the spot, to evidence a permission that still exists in a database.
Two duties sit on top of it. Article 4.1 of Organic Law 4/2000 gives foreign nationals in Spain the right and the duty to keep the documentation evidencing their identity, issued by their country of origin, together with the documentation evidencing their situation in Spain. Article 13.1 of Organic Law 4/2015 on the protection of public safety goes a step further and requires that both be carried and produced on request. Article 209.3 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 makes the card personal and non-transferable and puts its custody squarely on the holder.
Practically: carry the card, keep the passport somewhere safe, and photograph both. A clear photograph of the card is not a legal substitute for the card, but it makes the police report, the replacement form and every subsequent conversation dramatically shorter.
Replacing it: a duplicate is not a renewal
The governing text is article 209.9 of Royal Decree 1155/2024, the regulation implementing the immigration act, which came into force on 20 May 2025 and repealed Royal Decree 557/2011. It provides that the loss, destruction or spoiling of a foreigner identity card leads to the issue of a new card, at the request of the interested party, which shall not be considered a renewal and which is valid for the time remaining on the card it replaces. It adds that where the request is made inside the renewal window, the two procedures are processed jointly and consistently.
Read that twice, because it disposes of the most common misunderstanding. Replacing the card does not buy you time, does not extend your permission and does not restart anything. Fourteen months left before the loss means fourteen months left after it. What you are buying is the physical evidence of a permission that was never in doubt.
The corollary is the timing point our office makes most often. If your card is due to expire in three or four months and it goes missing, the sensible move is frequently not to replace it and then renew, but to ask whether the replacement can ride alongside the renewal, which is precisely what the second paragraph of article 209.9 contemplates. That is a conversation with your comisaría, not a decision to take alone.
The police report, and where to make it
The Ministry of the Interior lists, among the documents required for a replacement, “the report of the loss or theft, or production of the spoiled card”. Two things follow. First, the report is required for a loss as well as for a theft — there is no softer route for “I think I just mislaid it”. Second, if the card still exists but is broken, delaminated or unreadable, you hand over the card and no report is needed.
Where you file it depends on where you are, and this is one of the few places where Spain’s policing map matters to a resident:
- National Police, online. The Oficina Virtual de Denuncias accepts reports for loss or mislaying of documents and effects, and for theft of documents and effects, and its identity-document dropdown includes the Spanish foreigner identity card. It then asks you to choose the police station at which you wish to formalise the report, which is the system telling you plainly that the online step does not close the matter: you attend in person to sign.
- Catalonia, Álava and Gipuzkoa. Those provinces do not appear in the online system’s dropdown, because policing there sits with the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Ertzaintza. The Catalan procedure has its own online report, and the Generalitat’s official page states that it must be ratified in person within 72 hours.
- Guardia Civil, electronically. Where you hold a digital certificate, the Guardia Civil accepts an electronic report for loss or mislaying of documentation with a scanned copy attached and without subsequent ratification — which makes it the fastest route for a resident who already has a certificate. It is not available where there was violence or intimidation, a known perpetrator, witnesses, or an offence in progress.
We have not found an official source fixing a 72-hour ratification deadline for the National Police’s online report, as opposed to the Catalan one, so treat the online step as the start of the process rather than the end of it and attend the station promptly. If you do not yet have a digital certificate, that is itself a job worth doing early: see the digital certificate and Cl@ve for new residents.
The appointment, the fee and the documents
Everything about the replacement is in person. Form EX-17 carries a printed warning that it may only be presented personally before the competent unit of the National Police, and that presentation by electronic means or through public registries is not admitted. There is no online shortcut, and any service offering one is offering to stand in a queue on your behalf, which it cannot do for a fingerprint.
The appointment is booked through the public administration’s cita previa system, choosing your province and then the procedure for police fingerprinting and card issue — the current wording covers initial cards, renewals and duplicates together. Collecting the finished card is a second, separate appointment under its own heading. The mechanics are the same as the first time round, and if that is a blur, our walkthrough of the TIE appointment and fingerprints covers the room you will be standing in.
On the form itself, section 4.1 asks for the type of document under article 209 and offers three boxes: initial card, renewal of card, and duplicate for loss, theft, deterioration or change of data. That last box is the one, and its wording is worth noticing — change of data is how a corrected name or an updated circumstance gets onto a card without pretending to be a renewal.
Take with you:
- Form EX-17, completed and signed, original and one copy.
- The police report of the loss or theft, or the spoiled card itself.
- Your passport or travel document, valid, in original — it is checked and handed back.
- One recent colour photograph, passport size, white background.
- Proof of payment of the 790 code 012 fee.
- If you have moved since the card was issued, a padrón certificate or volante less than three months old.
On the fee, we would rather be accurate than tidy. The schedule in force is Order PJC/617/2025 of 13 June, which replaced the 2011 order. Its annex sets, for foreigner identity cards: 16.08 euros for the card documenting a first grant of temporary residence, stay or cross-border worker status; 19.30 euros for the card documenting a renewal or extension; 21.87 euros for a long-term or EU long-term residence card; 12.00 euros for family members of Spanish nationals and for EU registration certificates, EU family cards and Brexit cards. The return authorisation is 10.72 euros.
There is no line in that annex for a duplicate. Neither the order nor the National Police’s published fee page nor the official form generator offers a “duplicate” concept; you select the category that matches your card. The figure most commonly quoted by advisers is 16.08 euros, and it is a reasonable inference, but it is an inference and not a published tariff, so confirm the box at the counter rather than trusting a number from a forum. Amounts are set by ministerial order and change.
We have also been unable to find any official statement of how long the card takes to be manufactured and delivered. The National Police say only that the cards are produced by the national mint and handed over once they reach the issuing documentation unit. The thirty-to-forty-five-day figures that circulate online have no official source behind them. Plan on the assumption that you will be without the card for a while, which is what the next section is for.
Flying while you wait: the return authorisation
This is the part that turns a nuisance into a cancelled trip, and it is entirely avoidable. Article 5.1 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 provides that the holder of a valid foreigner identity card may apply for a return authorisation in the event of theft, loss, destruction or spoiling of the card, provided they evidence that they have applied for the replacement. The order matters: report, apply for the duplicate, then apply for the return authorisation on the strength of that application.
The document is form EX-13, the fee is 10.72 euros, and article 5.2 caps its validity at ninety days. Article 5.5 confirms that within those ninety days there is no limit on the number of entries and exits on the single document. Article 5.2 also provides that where the journey responds to a situation of necessity, the application is processed with preference — worth knowing, and worth documenting, if the reason you must travel is a funeral or a hospital.
If you are simply weighing up how much time you can spend outside Spain in the first place — a separate question, and one with real consequences for renewal — see how much time you must actually spend in Spain.
The move nobody reports
Here is the duty almost no foreign resident in Spain knows exists. Article 213 of Royal Decree 1155/2024, headed “Communication to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals of changes and alterations of situation”, reads:
Foreign nationals authorised to remain in Spain shall be obliged to bring to the knowledge of the Police Station corresponding to the place where they reside or remain any changes of nationality, of habitual domicile and of civil status. That communication must be made within a maximum period of one month from when the change or modification occurred, and must be accompanied by the documents evidencing those changes.
Three changes, one body, one month, with evidence. Nationality, because it changes which regime you are in. Civil status, because it changes who else may derive rights from you. And habitual domicile, because it changes where the State writes to you.
The Order of 7 February 1997 adds a detail that still applies: the communication is made personally at the police station or the police services within the Foreigners Office, within one month — unless you have been formally required to report it, in which case the period shortens to fifteen days from the requirement.
The sanctions are modest and real. Omitting or delaying the communication of a change of nationality, civil status or domicile is a minor infringement under article 52.a) of Organic Law 4/2000, and article 55.1 puts minor infringements at a fine of up to 500 euros. Concealing the information deliberately, or giving a materially false answer — including falsifying the compulsory data for municipal register enrolment — is a serious infringement under article 53.1.c), fined between 501 and 10,000 euros. Article 55.3 and 55.4 require the amount to be graduated by proportionality, culpability and the economic capacity of the offender, which is not always good news for a private client.
A candid word on practice. We have checked the appointment system in several provinces and there is no menu option labelled “change of address”; the duty is clear in the regulation but the channel is not standardised, and the answer differs between comisarías. Ask yours, in writing where you can, and keep whatever acknowledgement you are given. That receipt is the entire point of the exercise.
Whether a new address also requires a new physical card is a separate and less settled question. Since 19 May 2020 Spain issues the card in the European Union’s uniform format under Regulation (EC) 1030/2002 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/1954, in which the holder’s address is an optional field on the reverse rather than a mandatory one on the front. We have not found an official Spanish description confirming whether that optional field is printed today. What is not in doubt is that the duty to notify exists regardless, that the EX-17 has a box for a duplicate arising from a “change of data”, and that the Interior Ministry asks for a recent padrón certificate where the address has changed. If your card shows an address, assume you need a new one.
The padrón is a different obligation, and it expires
Registering at the town hall is not the same act as notifying the police, and doing one does not discharge the other. They are owed to different bodies, under different statutes, on different timetables, for different purposes. If you have not yet met the municipal register, start with our guide to empadronamiento; what follows is the part that catches people out later.
Article 16.1 of Law 7/1985 on the bases of local government defines the padrón as the administrative register of a municipality’s residents, whose data constitute proof of residence in the municipality and of habitual domicile there, with certificates that are public and authentic documents for all administrative purposes. That is why it is asked for constantly: it is the only document in Spain that formally proves where you live.
The same article then carries a rule aimed squarely at you. Enrolment must be renewed every two years where the person registered is a non-EU foreign national without long-term residence authorisation. Where the period passes without renewal, that is grounds to declare the entry expired — and the article says expressly that the expiry may be declared without prior hearing of the interested party.
Every American on a non-lucrative visa is inside that description for at least the first five years. The consequence is not theoretical: an expired padrón entry means that on the day you need to prove where you live — for a renewal file, a health card, a school place, a card replacement — the proof is not there, and reinstating it takes an appointment you did not budget for. Put a two-year reminder in the calendar on the day you register, and another for the card expiry while you are in there.
Why a stale address is the expensive one
Now the part that justifies the fuss. Spanish administrative procedure is generous about how it reaches you and unforgiving about what happens once it has.
Article 44 of Law 39/2015 provides that where the interested parties are unknown, the place of notification is unknown, or notification has been attempted and could not be carried out, notification is made by an announcement published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado. Administrations may, additionally and optionally, publish in a regional or provincial bulletin, on the noticeboard of the town hall of the last known domicile, or at the relevant consulate — but none of that displaces the obligation to publish in the state gazette. Once published, you are notified. Not deemed unreachable; notified.
What arrives at old addresses is rarely a pleasantry. It is usually one of two things:
- A request to cure a defect. Under article 68.1 of Law 39/2015, where an application does not meet the requirements, the applicant is required to remedy it within ten days, with a warning that failing to do so means being held to have withdrawn the application; the period may be extended prudentially by up to five days. Ten working days, from a publication you did not read, on a file you were counting on.
- A silence that becomes an archive. Under article 95, in procedures started at the interested party’s request that become paralysed for reasons attributable to that party, the administration warns that after three months the procedure will expire, and then orders the file archived.
Set those against the sanction for not reporting a move — a minor infringement, up to 500 euros. The fine is not the cost. The cost is a renewal held to have been withdrawn, or a file archived, because a letter went to a flat you left in March.
The fix costs nothing and takes one line. Form EX-17 has a section for the address for notification purposes, and a consent box for electronic notification through the single electronic notification address under article 14 of Law 39/2015. Electronic notification follows the person, not the letterbox. For anyone who has moved once and may move again — which describes most people in their first three years in Spain — it is the single highest-value box on the form.
Where this collides with your renewal
All of the above matters most at one moment, and the timetable changed with the new regulation, so the old advice circulating online is out of date.
Article 64.1 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 provides that a holder wishing to renew a temporary residence authorisation must apply to the competent Foreigners Office during the two months prior to the expiry of their authorisation, and that filing within that window extends the validity of the previous authorisation until the procedure is resolved. It goes on to extend that same protection where the application is filed within the three months following expiry — without prejudice to the opening of sanctioning proceedings for the infringement in article 52.b) of Organic Law 4/2000. Note the phrasing: two months and three months, not the sixty and ninety days that older guides use.
So the answer to the question everyone asks — am I illegal while my expired card sits in a drawer and my renewal is pending? — is no, provided you filed inside one of those two windows. What evidences your position is the receipt for the renewal application, which is also what unlocks a return authorisation under article 5.1 if you need to travel.
Two further points from the same article that reward attention well before the deadline. Article 64.2.f) requires, as a renewal condition, that the applicant has actually and effectively resided in Spain for more than 183 days during the calendar year — a requirement with obvious implications for snowbirds and for anyone treating Spain as one of several homes, and one that overlaps with tax residence in ways worth planning around; see renewal, 183 days and tax residence. Article 64.2.c) requires that health cover has been maintained and continues. Article 64.7 gives the renewed authorisation two years. Article 64.8 sets three months for resolution, after which the application is understood to be granted. And article 64.9 gives you one month from notification of the favourable decision to apply personally at the police station for the corresponding card.
That last deadline is where the whole page closes its circle: it runs from notification. If notification happened by publication because the file held an address you left, the month has been running without you. For the full sequence and the documents involved, see renewing the non-lucrative visa.
Delay is graded. Article 52.b) treats a delay of up to three months in applying for renewal after expiry as a minor infringement. Article 53.1.a) treats being in Spain with an authorisation expired for more than three months, where no renewal was applied for in the regulatory period, as a serious infringement — and that is a materially different conversation.
If the US passport went with it
Wallets do not discriminate, and a stolen bag in Sevilla often takes both documents. The American side runs on its own rules and is, in one respect, easier than the Spanish side.
A lost or stolen US passport must be replaced in person, at the Embassy in Madrid or the Consulate General in Barcelona, or through the nearest consular agency. Two forms: DS-11, which you complete but do not sign — it is signed in front of the consular officer, and it requires your Social Security number — and DS-64, the statement of loss or theft. You need one 2x2 inch photograph on a white background taken in the last six months; there is a photo booth at both posts, currently 8 euros in Madrid and 5 euros in Barcelona.
Notably, and in contrast with the Spanish requirement, the Department of State says a police report is not mandatory, and advises expressly against spending time obtaining one if that would cause you to miss a flight. Since Spain does require a report for the card replacement, you will end up making one anyway — but the sequencing is yours to choose, and a flight comes first.
For urgent travel, both posts take walk-ins: Madrid from 8:00 to 11:00 Monday to Friday, with the emergency passport printed within about 24 hours and collected the following morning in the same window; Barcelona from 9:00 to 12:00, available the next day between 15:00 and 16:00. Neither issues passports after hours. The fee for an adult replacement is currently 165 dollars, payable by card or in dollars or euros. An emergency passport is valid for up to one year, and the State Department warns in terms that some foreign destinations may not accept a limited-validity passport — so it gets you home, not on a tour.
One limitation catches people staying on the coast. The five consular agencies — Las Palmas, Málaga–Fuengirola, Palma de Mallorca, Seville and Valencia — provide passport, birth-abroad and notarial services by appointment and take payment by credit card only, but emergency passport services for citizens travelling within the next two weeks are provided only in Madrid and Barcelona. If you are in Málaga with a flight on Thursday, your appointment is in Madrid.
Once the new passport is in hand, remember that your Spanish file now refers to a document number that no longer exists. That is a change worth carrying into the next Spanish appointment, alongside anything else that has drifted — and if your name has ever been recorded inconsistently across the two systems, read how American names break Spanish paperwork before you hand anything over a counter.
Every duty, deadline and fee in one place
| What happened | Who you tell | Deadline | Form / fee | If you do not |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Card lost or stolen | Police report, then National Police documentation unit | “Immediately” (Order of 7 Feb 1997) | EX-17 + 790/012, category fee | Cannot evidence status; no return authorisation available |
| Card damaged or unreadable | Same, handing in the card | Immediately | EX-17 + 790/012; no police report needed | Same |
| Need to travel while waiting | National Police | After the replacement is applied for | EX-13, 10.72 €, max 90 days | Re-entry refused; valid only via Spanish border posts |
| Change of habitual address | Comisaría for the new address | 1 month (15 days if formally required) | Evidence of the change | Minor infringement, art. 52.a) LOEX, up to 500 € |
| Change of address (municipal) | Town hall of the new municipality | On moving | Padrón enrolment | No proof of habitual residence when it is needed |
| Padrón upkeep, non-EU without long-term status | Town hall | Renew every 2 years | Renewal of enrolment | Entry expires, declarable without prior hearing |
| Change of nationality or civil status | Comisaría | 1 month | Supporting documents | Minor infringement; serious if concealed |
| Residence permit nearing expiry | Foreigners Office | 2 months before, or up to 3 months after | Renewal 16.40 € + TIE 19.30 € | Late up to 3 months: minor. Beyond, with no application: serious |
| Renewal granted | National Police | 1 month from notification | EX-17 + 790/012 | Permit granted, card not issued |
| US passport lost or stolen | US Embassy Madrid or Consulate Barcelona | In person, walk-in for urgent travel | DS-11 + DS-64, 165 USD | No travel document; agencies cannot help inside two weeks |
Frequently asked questions
How long do I have to replace a lost or stolen TIE in Spain?
The rule in force says immediately, not within one month. The much-repeated one-month deadline comes from article 210 of Royal Decree 557/2011, and that regulation was repealed when Royal Decree 1155/2024 came into force on 20 May 2025. The current wording is in the Order of 7 February 1997 on the foreigner card, which is still in force and which states that the loss, destruction or spoiling of the card obliges the holder to request another document immediately. The Ministry of the Interior repeats that word on its own guidance page. In practice, immediately means as soon as you can obtain a police report and a cita previa, and it means you should not wait to see whether the card turns up.
Does a replacement TIE reset my residence permit?
No, and this is the single most useful thing to understand. Article 209.9 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 says that a card issued because the previous one was lost, destroyed or spoiled is not treated as a renewal and is valid only for the time remaining on the card it replaces. If your card expires in fourteen months and you lose it tomorrow, the new card expires in fourteen months. You are replacing a piece of plastic, not extending a permission. The same article adds that where the replacement is requested inside the renewal window, the two procedures are processed together and consistently, which is why it is usually sensible to lose a card either early in the permit or at renewal time rather than two months before it expires.
Can I fly while I am waiting for my replacement card?
You can leave Spain and return using a return authorisation, but read the limit before you book. Article 5.1 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 allows the holder of a valid foreigner identity card to apply for a return authorisation where that card has been stolen, lost, destroyed or spoiled, provided you can show that you have already applied for the replacement. It is form EX-13, the fee is 10.72 euros under Order PJC/617/2025, and it is valid for no more than ninety days, with no limit on the number of entries and exits within that period. Article 5.6 is the trap: the return authorisation is only valid for entry through authorised Spanish border posts. A flight home routed through Lisbon, Paris or Amsterdam does not re-enter Spain, it re-enters the Schengen area somewhere else, and the document does not cover that. Book a direct flight into Spain.
Do I have to tell the police when I move house in Spain?
Yes. Article 213 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 obliges foreign nationals authorised to remain in Spain to notify the police station for the place where they live of any change of nationality, habitual domicile or civil status, within a maximum of one month from the change, with the documents that evidence it. If the authorities have formally required you to report it, the Order of 7 February 1997 shortens that to fifteen days from the requirement. Failing to do so, or doing it late, is a minor infringement under article 52.a) of Organic Law 4/2000, and article 55.1 sets the fine for minor infringements at up to 500 euros. Concealing or falsifying the information is a serious infringement under article 53.1.c), where the range is 501 to 10,000 euros.
Is registering at the new town hall enough, or is that a different thing?
It is a different thing, and doing one does not do the other. The padrón is a municipal register kept by the town hall under article 16 of Law 7/1985; it is proof of residence in the municipality and of habitual domicile, and its certificates are public and authentic for administrative purposes. Notification to the police under article 213 of Royal Decree 1155/2024 is an immigration duty owed to a different body under a different law with a different deadline. There is also a trap specific to non-EU residents who do not yet hold long-term residence, which includes every non-lucrative visa holder in their first five years: article 16.1 requires the register entry to be renewed every two years, and if it is not renewed it expires, and the expiry may be declared without any prior hearing. Nobody writes to remind you.
What actually goes wrong if the administration has my old address?
The procedure carries on without you. Article 44 of Law 39/2015 provides that where the interested party is unknown, the place of notification is not known, or notification has been attempted and could not be carried out, notification is made by an announcement published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado. You are then notified in law, and the clock runs. That matters because of what usually arrives at the old address: a request to cure a defect in a file, which under article 68.1 gives you ten working days, extendable by up to five, failing which you are deemed to have withdrawn the application; and article 95, under which a procedure paralysed for three months for reasons attributable to you expires and is archived. A lost card costs you an appointment and a fee. An address the State cannot reach can cost you the renewal itself. The fix is free: complete the notification address section of form EX-17 and tick the consent box for electronic notification through the single electronic notification address, which follows you rather than your letterbox.
Useful next reads
If you are still working out what the card even is: TIE versus NIE and the TIE appointment and fingerprints. If you have just landed: the first ninety days checklist, empadronamiento and visa collection and first entry. If the calendar is the worry: renewing the non-lucrative visa and how much time you must spend in Spain. And the master guide behind all of it: the non-lucrative visa for retirees.
Law as at August 2026. Sources reviewed: Royal Decree 1155/2024 of 19 November approving the Regulation of Organic Law 4/2000, in force since 20 May 2025 and repealing Royal Decree 557/2011 — articles 5 (return authorisation), 64 (renewal of temporary residence), 209 (foreigner identity card, including 209.3 on custody and 209.9 on replacement) and 213 (communication of changes of nationality, habitual domicile and civil status); the consolidated text of that regulation has been amended since it entered into force and the current text should be checked before acting. Organic Law 4/2000 on the rights and freedoms of foreign nationals in Spain, articles 4 (right and duty of documentation), 52.a) and 52.b), 53.1.a) and 53.1.c), and 55 (penalties and their graduation); Organic Law 4/2015 on the protection of public safety, article 13.1. Order of 7 February 1997 regulating the foreigner card, sections Third.2 and Third.3, still in force. Order PJC/617/2025 of 13 June setting the amounts of the fees for immigration authorisations and documents, annex, headings 2.2.1, 4.1 to 4.7 and 5.10. Law 39/2015 on the common administrative procedure, articles 14, 44, 68.1 and 95. Law 7/1985 on the bases of local government, article 16.1. Regulation (EC) 1030/2002 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/1954 on the uniform format for residence permits, under which the holder’s address is an optional field. Ministry of the Interior guidance on the foreigner identity card, including the documents required for replacement and the statement that the card evidences administrative situation rather than identity; National Police published fee schedule and Virtual Reporting Office; Guardia Civil electronic reporting service; Catalan government guidance on reporting loss. United States Department of State and US Embassy Madrid guidance on lost and stolen passports, forms DS-11 and DS-64, walk-in hours, fees and limited-validity passports. Points we could not verify from an official source are flagged as such in the text: there is no published tariff specifically for a duplicate card, no official manufacturing or delivery time for the card, no confirmation that the current Spanish card prints the holder’s address, and no appointment heading dedicated to a change of address. Administrative practice varies between provinces and changes without notice. This page is general information and not advice on any individual file.