Spanish Embassy for Ireland - Address / Phone Number

Spanish Embassy in Ireland

Address: 17A Merlyn Park, Dublin 4
City: Dublin (Standard time zone: UTC/GMT 0 hours)
Tel.: 1 283 9900 / 01 269 1640 / 01 269 2597
Fax: 01 269 1854
Working/Consular hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30 - 13.30 

The Spanish Embassy's Consular Section serves Spanish citizens and foreigners residing permanently in Ireland with matters involving Spanish authorities, such as passports, notary services and certain specific legal transactions, family law, citizenship and military service. The Consular Section assists Spanish citizens in distress, gives information on the services provided by Spanish authorities and the legal protection available to private citizens, and advises on general procedures related to legal or administrative matters in Spain and Ireland. The Spanish Embassy also arranges for absentee voting in Spanish elections. Foreign citizens can consult the Embassy's Consular Section on matters related to visas and entry permits.

Documents that can be processed by Consulates are passports, renewals of the national identity card (DNI), certificates of existence, Residency Certificates and Cancellations of Consular Registration Certificates.

Spanish citizens registered in the Register of Spanish citizens living abroad in Spanish consular offices have the right to renew and apply for Spanish passports. Although passports must be processed in their place of residence, Spanish citizens travelling abroad can apply for a new passport at the consular offices along their route in case of:

• Loss or theft
• Expiry
• Approaching the expiry date
• Damage
• Lack of free pages

To be issued with a passport, applicants must present one of the following documents: original valid national identify card (DNI), the passport to be replaced or official birth certificate. If none of these documents is available, the consular office will consult the central authorities and, when Spanish identity and nationality has been verified, it will issue the passport, with the possibility of limiting its validity to three months.

To return to Spain, the consular office may issue a laissez-passer travel document valid solely for returning to Spain.

Spanish citizens residing abroad must register with the Consular Register corresponding to the district where they live. Registration allows them to renew their documentation, to be able to prove their residence abroad and to participate in elections called in Spain, except municipal elections, as well as to request consular assistance in situations of need.

It is very important to take into account that if a Spanish citizen residing abroad changes his or her address in the future, he or she must communicate this to the Consulate so that their registration is always up to date.

Legalisation is an administrative act whereby a foreign public document is validated, by verifying the authenticity of the signature on the document, and the capacity in which the signatory of the document has acted. Legalisation is free of charge when carried out by the Legalisations Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (C/ Juan de Mena, 4 - 28071 Madrid. Tel: +34 91 379 16 55). If carried out at an Embassy or Consulate of Spain, it shall involve payment of a fee. For more specific information, it is advisable to directly contact the corresponding representation of Spain abroad.

Each consular area has a Civil Registration office. This body is divided into four sections: births and general, marriages, deaths, and guardians and legal representatives. It is made up from Municipal Registers by the first instance judge, assisted by the secretary; the Consular Registers, by the Consuls of Spain abroad, and the central Civil Register. The offices of each consular district submit a duplicate of the records made locally to the central Civil Register.