Empadronamiento Guadalajara: your address on the city’s padrón

The Ayuntamiento lists two offices of its Servicio de Atención Ciudadana (SAC), the citizens’ service desk, for padrón procedures. In its online booking, as of October 2026, a first registration (alta) or a change of address can only be booked at the CMI on Avenida del Vado. The Plaza Mayor desk takes bookings for volantes, certificates, confirmations and renewals, but not for new registrations.

The padrón page of the sede electrónica (the Ayuntamiento’s website for formal requests) says an appointment is needed to hand in a padrón application. Book through the booking app for padrón visits, or by phone on 949 887 070. For a first registration, choose the CMI and its service for altas and changes of address.

Fill in the “Hoja de inscripción / modificación del Padrón de Habitantes”, form MOD 1175, in capital letters, with names written as on your identity document. Everyone over 16 who registers signs it. The town hall asks for originals of these documents:

A volante de empadronamiento is an informative proof of your registration. The desk issues it when you show your ID, and you can also request it on the town hall’s Portal del Ciudadano. The certificado de empadronamiento, form MOD 1009, is the formal version: it has a municipal fee, paid with form 390, and you request it in person by appointment, or online if you have an electronic DNI (Spanish ID card) or a digital certificate. Police offices often want one in the folder for a green certificate or a TIE card.

Non-EU citizens without permanent residence must renew their registration every two years, in the three months before the date, with form MOD 1049. Without the renewal, the registration lapses.

EU and EEA citizens, holders of an EU relative’s card and long-term residents do not renew, but the town hall checks their residence from time to time; they confirm it with form MOD 1176 or MOD 1177. Both procedures are in person, by appointment.

The town hall’s social services, Bienestar Social, issue the municipal reports that some immigration procedures ask for, such as the report on the suitability of a home (informe de idoneidad de la vivienda) for family reunification. Requests go through the municipal registry, by appointment, or through the sede electrónica.

For Spanish lessons, the public adult-education centres CEPA Río Sorbe in Guadalajara and CEPA Clara Campoamor in Azuqueca de Henares offer castellano para extranjeros (Spanish for foreigners), according to the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha’s adult-education guide for 2024–2025.