Folio 07 · a local guide
Empadronamiento in Marbella: registering at the town hall
Empadronamiento in Marbella takes an appointment at one of the town hall’s four citizen offices (OAC), with your identity document, proof of your address and the hoja padronal. It records you on the padrón, the town’s register of inhabitants, and its certificate is asked for by schools, the health service and, often, the police.
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Four town hall offices
The Oficinas de Atención al Ciudadano (OAC) handle the alta, the first registration, as well as changes of address. Marbella has four of them.
- OAC Marbella, in the town hall at Plaza de los Naranjos 1
- OAC San Pedro Alcántara, Plaza de la Iglesia 1
- OAC Nueva Andalucía district, Avenida Miguel de Cervantes 15
- OAC Las Chapas, Calle Pinsapo s/n, 29603
How the OAC books you in
Every OAC procedure, the padrón included, is by appointment. The town hall’s page gives the booking site, citaprevia.marbella.es, and the phone line +34 952 761 100. With a digital certificate the request can also be filed through the sede electrónica. Bring the hoja padronal, the Alta y Cambio de Domicilio form, already filled in.
Should the booking site refuse to open for you, the phone line on the same page is the alternative.
Papers the OAC asks for
- Identity: your passport or national identity card, or your NIE or TIE, with a passport photograph
- Tenants: the rental contract and a recent electricity, water or IBI bill
- Owners: the escritura, a valid nota simple or the latest IBI bill
- Children: the same documents as adults; if born in Spain, the Libro de Familia or a birth certificate
- The hoja padronal, completed
Renewal, and the foreign residents’ department
Foreign residents renew their registration periodically, and the town hall sends a reminder. Europeans renew every two years if their NIE dates from before 2007 or they have none, every five years with a later NIE; non-Europeans every two years with temporary residence, every five with a permanent card or a family member’s card. The portal adds that the padrón does not make you a tax resident.
The town hall’s Concejalía de Extranjeros Residentes, at the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos on Calle José Meliá 2, gives information on the padrón and on procedures with the police, every weekday morning from 9:00 until 14:00, on +34 952 768 766. It also has desks in Nueva Andalucía and Las Chapas.
Source extranjeros.marbella.es — empadronamientoextranjeros.marbella.es — the department and its offices
In Marbella
Choose the office closest to your address: the town hall on Plaza de los Naranjos for the centre and the old town, San Pedro Alcántara or Nueva Andalucía in the west, Las Chapas for Elviria and the east. The certificate you leave with then joins your file for the EU registration certificate or the TIE at the Comisaría on Avenida Arias de Velasco.
Questions
Can I register at a rented flat?
Yes. Tenants bring the rental contract and a recent electricity, water or IBI bill for the address, according to the town hall’s list.
Is the padrón the same as residence?
No. It records where you live for the town. Residence for foreigners is a police matter, and the town hall’s portal notes that registering does not make you tax resident either.
I live in Benahavís or Mijas. Where do I register?
At your own town hall. The padrón belongs to the municipality where you live, so the Marbella offices register Marbella addresses only.