graceylacey

I am trying to find out where you stand if someone 'disapears' and you lose their address. Can they be traced through their residencia number or their NIE number? Do they have to still be in this country, or if they go back to UK can they still be traced?

Hope someone can help and advise me!

Thanks in advance!

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Tenergrief

Basically, yes and no. Depends on who is looking for them and their motives for finding them.

Janet

The address on a residencia or NIE doesn't really mean anything. This is why the Certificate of Empadronamiento exists ... it locates someone at a particular address because they could easily have moved since they acquired their residencia/Cert of Registro or NIE. There is a local register of inhabitants, and of course, if someone actually requested a Certificate of Empadronamiento for the address at which they were officially registered, then that would pretty much prove that they were still at the address stated in the register. BUT who would know where to start if tracing someone ... they would need to know which municipality to approach, for a start, and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to suppose that information would be supplied on request.

What could help to trace someone much more securely is their social security or tax records, but again these would not be readily available to very many at all. And once one leaves a country, it's difficult to see what traces could apply, or where they'd be traced "to" !!

Andy0210

I'm pretty sure that NIE or residencia is a no no, we have been here two and a half years and our NIE is about 7 addresses out of date, there is no need to change your address on an NIE in fact the address linked to our NIE belongs to Crossley Morfitt and Lennox's office in Los Cris as we needed it to buy our business and they did it for us with their address so we had the relevant paperwork needed when we arrived.
Our certificate of empadriamento is current for now but not sure who has access to it other than the Tenerife Gov't, and if someone goes back to the U.K then i am pretty sure you have lost them as Spanish Doc's have no relevance whatsoever.
If you are really desperate to contact them then i suggest a private detective as i have seen one advertised in the local Tenerife paper, also in the U.K if you have a rough idea where they are over there.