How do you update your address with Spanish authorities in 2026?

Register or transfer the address at the ayuntamiento for the municipality where you now sleep. Bring identity evidence and the housing proof that council asks for tenants, owners, or authorised guests. Councils such as Madrid and Barcelona publish their own lists, so do not reuse another city's checklist. Ask for a recent volante or certificado de empadronamiento; many later offices reject proofs older than a few months. Full steps live in how to register on the padrón.

Keep the spelling of your name, passport, and NIE identical to your immigration file. A padrón typo will bounce through TIE appointments and renewals.

Interior guidance for TIE holders says you must personally report changes of nationality and habitual domicile, and other data that affect the card, to the Comisaría de Policía or police services in the Oficina de Extranjeros for the place where you reside, normally within one month of the change. Refugees domiciled in Madrid follow the specialised asylum office channel instead of a generic local desk.

Bring passport, TIE or other stay evidence, and a fresh padrón proof. Moving does not automatically reprint a new plastic card; you communicate the change so notifications and register data stay correct. If a renewal is already due, coordinate the address update with residence renewal so the new card and padrón match. Pending extranjería files also need the new notification address through the channel that office uses.

Padrón and police notice do not rewrite every Spanish database. Update Importass or TGSS contact data if you receive Social Security mail. Tell Agencia Tributaria your fiscal domicile when it differs or when census rules require a change. Banks and insurers need their own KYC address change; a landlord letter alone rarely suffices.

Treat the move as part of the wider paperwork after moving checklist: same NIE, same Spanish street line, same postcode everywhere that still holds an old address.