Background about the Marbella Foreigners Department

The tasks of the Foreign Residents Department are:

 

 To inform about the necessary steps in order to carry out any administrative procedure within the different City Council Departments and other public administrations such as:

o   Census

o   Registration

o   Cadastre

o   Municipal taxes

o   Social security

o   Urban planning office

o   Treasury

o   Water, electricity and telephone suppliers

o   Unemployment office

o   Tourism Department

o   Courts

o   Registry office

o   Official requests

o   Opening licenses

o   Minor construction licenses

o   Local Police

 

We help foreign residents on a daily basis, by translating for them in other municipal departments. Our staff is frequently summoned by other municipal departments with the same aim.

 

-          To inform about events organised by our own Department and the rest of municipal areas. We do this by means of e-mail, telephone and also in person, as well as through the local press and the municipal website.

 

-          To translate documents for other municipal departments (environmental campaigns, official communications, letters received from residents who do not speak Spanish, etc)

 

-          To promote relationships between foreign groups living in Marbella.

 

-          To monitor all official requests made by foreign residents, in order to speed up procedures as much as possible.

 

-          To offer a personalised treatment to all foreign residents associations, in order to help them with their daily needs.

 

-          To organise events (informative conferences, international days, trips, cultural visits, sport events, concerts, art exhibitions, etc…) aimed at the participation of foreign residents.

 

-          To show our culture to foreign residents and to let all residents in Marbella know about the different cultures that co-exist in our municipality.