EX-15 form: how to fill it in to get your NIE

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What is the EX-15: NIE and certificates

The EX-15 form is the NIE application form for people with economic, professional or social interests in Spain, such as buying a home. You also use it for a resident or non-resident certificate. The code appears as EX-15 or EX15: it is the same document.

With a visa for more than 90 days, your NIE is issued automatically; if the visa is for more than six months, you apply for the TIE card with the EX-17. EU citizens staying more than three months use the EX-18. Moving for good? Start with the moving to Spain checklist.

Download the EX-15

Use the PDF from the Ministry of Inclusion (version 03). It has no fields you can fill in on a computer: print it and complete it in CAPITALS, with a black pen and block letters, or typed. You hand in an original and a copy. The form is free.

Download the EX-15 (official PDF)

How to fill in the EX-15, box by box

The form is in Spanish, so write your answers in Spanish too.

1) Datos de la persona extranjera

Your details as in your passport: PASAPORTE (passport number), names, date of birth as dd/mm/yyyy and X for sex only if your country recognises it. Domicilio de residencia is your home address; leave N.I.E. blank if you have none and Representante legal blank unless you are a minor or have a guardian.

2) Representative

Only if someone else submits the application for you. The regulation says the NIE is requested in person, so check first whether the office accepts a representative.

3) Address for notifications

Where you want the answer sent; if blank, it goes to the applicant. Add a mobile or email for alerts and tick CONSIENTO (DEHú, the online notification inbox) only if you have a digital certificate or Cl@ve.

4.1 Type of document

NIE, or CERTIFICADO for a resident (de residente) or non-resident (de no residente) certificate.

4.2 MOTIVOS (reasons)

Economic, professional or social interests, or Por otros motivos (other reasons) with a short explanation.

4.3 LUGAR DE PRESENTACIÓN (where you submit)

Where you hand it in: Oficina de Extranjería, police station or Oficina Consular (consulate).

4.4 SITUACIÓN EN ESPAÑA (status in Spain)

Estancia (short stay) or Residencia (residence). Note (8), which this box refers to, is missing from the form.

Place, date and signature

The city, the date and your signature.

DIRIGIDA A (addressed to)

The office that receives the application, its DIR3 code and the province; if you don't know them, ask when you hand it in.

How to submit your NIE application

1. Pay the fee. Fill in the modelo 790 código 012 and pay it at a bank, where you don't need an account: 9,84 euros for the NIE or 7,31 euros for a certificate. Details are in the tasa 790 012 guide.
2. Book an appointment. The cita previa (appointment) is free. In Spain, book it on the official immigration appointment website; the steps are in the extranjería appointment guide.
3. Hand in the application in person. Bring the signed EX-15, original and copy, and the fee receipt to the Oficina de Extranjería (immigration office), the comisaría (police station) or the consulate.
4. Wait for the decision. The police have five days from the moment the application is registered to decide and notify you.

Common problems

I can't fill in the PDF on my computer

The official EX-15 has no fillable fields: print it and fill it in as explained under Download the EX-15.

I'm outside Spain

You apply for your NIE from abroad at the Spanish consulate and tick Oficina Consular in section 4.3; the consulate sends it to the Comisaría General de Extranjería y Fronteras. Ask the consulate how to book an appointment and pay the fee.

Five days have passed and I have no answer

Without an answer in that time, the application counts as refused. You can file a recurso de reposición (appeal to the same authority) within one month or go to the administrative court within two months, as explained in the guide to a refused immigration application.

I don't know which reason to tick

Stating your reason is enough. Tick the interest that fits or Por otros motivos and write the specific purpose, for example COMPRA DE VIVIENDA (buying a home).

Updated 29 October 2026