The green certificate for Europeans who live on Gran Canaria

Who must register, and when

Anyone with a European passport who makes Gran Canaria their home for more than three months: the Swedish couple now living all year in Mogán, the Italian waiter in a Playa del Inglés hotel, the German developer working from a flat in Guanarteme. Each adult registers in person, in their own name.

If someone in your family holds a passport from outside the EU, their path is a different one: form EX-19, and a card of their own.

Your proof follows your situation

• Employed: your work contract, or a certificate from your employer
• Self-employed: your registration as autónomo (self-employed worker)
• Pensioners and people with savings: documents that show enough income for the whole household, plus health insurance; a pensioner’s public cover often comes through an S1 issued by the paying country
• Student: your enrolment papers, health insurance, and a signed declaration that your means are sufficient
• Joining a European relative who lives here: proof of the family link, and that relative’s own registration

Certificado de registro UE Las Palmas: Plaza de la Feria, not Luis Doreste Silva

In the city, the police directory on policia.es places the procedures for Europeans, under the heading régimen comunitario (literally the Community regime), at Plaza de la Feria 24, 35071 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, phone 928 999 281. They do not appear at Calle Luis Doreste Silva, the city’s address for the bare number. The two are easy to confuse, so check the address before you confirm a booking.

In the south, the régimen comunitario is in the entry of the Comisaría de Santa Lucía de Tirajana. The Comisaría de Maspalomas does not have it, even though it handles the NIE. A ministerial order set the Santa Lucía unit up for the residents of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Agüimes and Ingenio, so a European living in Playa del Inglés or Mogán should expect Plaza de la Feria, unless the booking system offers Santa Lucía.

Papers to put together

• The EX-18, signed
• Passport or national ID card, in date, plus a photocopy
• The papers that prove your situation (see above)
• Receipt for the Modelo 790, código 012
• Booking confirmation
• A recent padrón certificate, if you already have one, to show where you live