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This is a problem that affects 18,397 Lorca, accumulating in the Police Station of the National Police of our city delays that have gone from an average of 40 days to almost 6 months.
The Councilor for Social Welfare of the City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez, reported that the City Council has asked the Ministry of the Interior to establish the necessary human resources and resources so that citizens who need it have the opportunity to renew at a time not over 40 days the corresponding Foreigner Identity Number (NIE) in the processing office that provides service in the facilities of the Police Station of the National Police of Lorca, taking into account the delays that are accumulating in this regard, and They have gone from 40 days to 6 months, according to the information that has been sent to the Town Hall by this group.
Lorca has 92,299 inhabitants of which 18,397 come from outside the country, which is 20% of the population of the municipality.
The average residence of these citizens is 15 years in a continuous coexistence that is an example of real integration in society.
Many of these citizens already have legal residence in Spain for several years, proceeding to renew the second long-term card (issued for a period of 5 years).
For this group it is essential to have your Foreigner Identity Number (NIE) to perform any bureaucratic or administrative procedure, whether banking, birth registration, signing a work contract, travel, study ... We are talking about a document that It acquires greater importance before facts as a possible loss of it, to which this person totally undocumented.
Both to renew or to obtain or have a duplicate of the NIE the reference group is encountering multiple problems derived mainly from the lack of appointments to renew their documentation and / or fingerprinting, card issuance and card renewal. Long duration.
Do not have appointments until next June without having been informed of the problem that originates this situation, and that means that until now they could complete these procedures in 40 days and now it is delaying up to 6 months.
The associations representing this group have transferred us that, according to the query made to the Government Delegation in Murcia, they have been informed that until the month of March there are no appointments available to perform any of these types of procedures.
They only have, for urgent situations, some appointments on Fridays from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to meet the needs of these people (202,034 throughout the Region).
There is also the circumstance that to ask for information about any procedure related to immigration, it can only be done in Murcia, having to request an appointment, which suffers a delay of 25 days in the best of cases.
Putting a clear example of the situation, we must point out that if a card is expired on November 1, 2018, it could not be renewed until May 2019, and it has not been issued an identity document for all this time. .
We are talking about citizens whose profession and activities depend to a large extent on having their card in force.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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