The EES would require all non-EU quick keep travellers to register by way of an automatic system on the border. They might want to present their identify, passport particulars, biometric knowledge (fingerprints and captured facial photographs) and the date and place of entry and exit upon getting into Spain. This may substitute the present passport stamping on the border. These particulars can be held on file for 3 years, that means Britons making repeat visits to Spain inside a three-year interval won’t need to undergo the identical registration course of every time.
To be exempt from registering with the EES, British residents within the EU might want to present a legitimate uniform-format biometric card, which in Spain is the TIE. The non-biometric Inexperienced Certificates, although a legitimate residency doc in Spain, was issued previous to EU Exit and subsequently, doesn’t characteristic within the Withdrawal Settlement or in Annex 22 of the Schengen Border Guard Handbook doc. It’s anticipated that Inexperienced Certificates holders might lose out on the possibility to be exempt from registering. Because of this, they might encounter difficulties and delays on the border, particularly when getting into different EU nations the place the Inexperienced Certificates will not be recognised.
The British Embassy is subsequently asking these nonetheless utilizing a Inexperienced Certificates to get a TIE as quickly as doable, forward of the introduction of the EU’s new Entry Exit System (EES), anticipated in Autumn this yr.
The method for securing a TIE appointment the cardboard itself is run by the Spanish Authorities. Extra info on methods to apply, together with hyperlinks to Spanish Authorities web sites the place the functions are made, may be discovered on the ‘Residing in Spain’ information on gov.uk.
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