N.L. The Foreigners Department organized on Wednesday 30th an informative talk aimed especially at British residents, who are the majority among the foreign population settled in the municipality. An activity that took place in the Branch Office in La Cala de Mijas to address issues of particular interest to this group.

“One of them is the driving licence, the exchange of the British licence for a Spanish one, especially focused on UK nationals who are resident here and who drive here for many months during the year”, said the councillor for Foreigners, Mario Bravo (PP). “The aim on this occasion is to explain to British nationals how to exchange their licences at the Traffic Department and how to make an appointment, so we are offering a very practical talk”, said lawyer Victoria Westhead.

Another of the topics to be discussed was how to obtain a residence card through the ‘arraigo’ procedure, and another issue was the changes in the procedure for British citizens to enter and leave the European Union. Experts in the field provided answers to all these questions. “I am here to talk to the British who were unable to process the Brexit card and are in Spain and to give them alternatives so that they can regularise their situation,  have documentation and live in Spain legally”, said lawyer Jorge Postigo.

With Brexit, the situation and conditions have changed. “We don’t want to lose resident tourists and neither do the British who live here and want to return to their country every 90 days, it’s about making things easy for them”, explained Bravo. 

For his part, Nathaniel Amos, from FCDO, said that “I am here to explain to the British how the entry and exit system works”. In this way, they were informed of all the alternatives that the law offers them in each case so that they can stay in Spain. 

 

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