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Has anyone travelled to mainland Spain recently using the residents discount of 75% of travel either with or without the certificate. I am under the impression you need to get a certificate from your town hall which I have done pre Brexit. I tried getting the certificate at the town hall in Caleta and in Antigua to be told you need 5 years residency.
I have been on both Iberia and Vueling websites and all they ask that you have a Residence Certificate, could this be the Empadron.
I am intrigued as to who sets this 5 year residency rule.
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(16-07-2021, 01:14 PM)willie5094 Wrote: Has anyone travelled to mainland Spain recently using the residents discount of 75% of travel either with or without the certificate. I am under the impression you need to get a certificate from your town hall which I have done pre Brexit. I tried getting the certificate at the town hall in Caleta and in Antigua to be told you need 5 years residency.
I have been on both Iberia and Vueling websites and all they ask that you have a Residence Certificate, could this be the Empadron.
I am intrigued as to who sets this 5 year residency rule.
Hi Willie, I think it is something to do with the new T.I.A. if you have been here less than 5 years it says on it clearly temporary, and I have heard this discussed previously with no one having a definitive answer,previosly all you needed as you are probably aware was a travel empadron, but I believe that has now changed.
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The Empadron and the Travel Voucher are two different certificates. Previously they were issued to residents (ie Green Card holders) but since the TIA arrived, only those with permanent residency (over 5 years) will get them, unfortunately.
I understood that this had been raised with the British Consulate and that they were making representations to the Spanish authorities, but I've heard no more about the outcome.
Unfortunately, yet another effect of Brexit.
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I wonder who actually made the ruling in the first place, would love to see a copy of it.
There is nothing on either Iberia or Vueling website asking for a travel doc only NIE number and Municipality, so if your aren't aware of this so called travel doc that I have just been refused twice you would be none the wiser and just tick Resident Discount thinking your T.I.E would be sufficient for travel, it was only word of mouth 3 years ago that I heard of so called Travel Doc, incidentaly we have had one in the past 2 years ago whilst travelling to Madrid and we weren't even asked to produce it.