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bobbyboy

Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 11:51am

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Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 11:51am

Kimmy11 wrote on Sun Feb 6, 2022 11:43am:

Hi Bob,

Your NIE is your tax reference number - it's your TIE or residency certificate that you need to take, along with the other documents I listed.  You must also take the NHS certificate detailing the vaccinations you've already received.  Another member, who had their first 2 jabs in Franc...

...e, had to obtain the batch numbers from their French doctor before they could get their booster in Spain, but best to go to your health centre and see what they say.  

Don't worry about not having a SIP card - I don't have one either as, like you, I am an early retiree with private health cover, and it hasn't stopped me getting 3 jabs.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Hi and again thank you for all your help in this issue it's really appreciated. I will attempt to make a appointment in the next few days.

Kind regards Bob

Peter3473

Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 3:09pm

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Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 3:09pm

bobbyboy wrote on Sun Feb 6, 2022 11:18am:

Hi Lynn. Again thank you for coming back to me. Sorry I didn't make myself clear in saying that we had our 1st and 2nd jabs in the UK. As I mentioned earlier when we went down to our local Salud in Torrevieja with someone to help us apply for the temporary SIP the reason it was refused we were to...

...ld it was because of our expired E111 cards. We have now received our new GHIC cards. So I am reading it that if we take our Padron, passports, proof of our private medical insurance and TIE  we shouldn't have a issue. We have residencia so I take it we will have to take our NIE cards. Thanks again for all your help.

Kind regards Bob

You will also need a Spanish Mobile contact number, just in case they send you a text appointment for your booster jab. How did you finally end up getting your GHIC card as you are now resident in Spain under state pension age and have PHI? As when I first applied for the initial covid jabs I was refused time and time again as I only had PHI and no ehic/ghic card in date and was informed by the NHS/UKGOV as I was no longer resident in the UK  and under state pension age and had residence in Spain with PHI it would be illegal to have or use a ehic/ghic card in Spain. In the end after 6 weeks of perseverance and in my broken Spanish informing my local medical centre that I was not entitled to a ehic/ghic card I was given a temporary SIP card only to receive all covid and booster jabs and the temporary SIP card would not cover me for any state medical treatment, that's where my PHI comes into play.

Kimmy11

Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 4:34pm

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Posted: Sun Feb 6, 2022 4:34pm

Me too, Peter.  We have a UK address, but were still told we didn't qualify for the UK's new GHIC, because we're resident in Spain.  

Our health centre at Rojales wouldn't issue SIP cards to us, but we did get SIP numbers, solely for the purpose of obtaining the vaccinations, and we've had no problem getting our jabs with just the SIP number.

Kind regards, 

Kim

bobbyboy

Posted: Mon Feb 7, 2022 5:43pm

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Posted: Mon Feb 7, 2022 5:43pm

Kimmy11 wrote on Sun Feb 6, 2022 11:43am:

Hi Bob,

Your NIE is your tax reference number - it's your TIE or residency certificate that you need to take, along with the other documents I listed.  You must also take the NHS certificate detailing the vaccinations you've already received.  Another member, who had their first 2 jabs in Franc...

...e, had to obtain the batch numbers from their French doctor before they could get their booster in Spain, but best to go to your health centre and see what they say.  

Don't worry about not having a SIP card - I don't have one either as, like you, I am an early retiree with private health cover, and it hasn't stopped me getting 3 jabs.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Hi Kim Thanks again for all the information you have provided it will hopefully get us 1 step nearer our booster jabs.

Bob 

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bobbyboy

Posted: Mon Feb 7, 2022 5:44pm

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Posted: Mon Feb 7, 2022 5:44pm

bobbyboy wrote on Mon Feb 7, 2022 5:43pm:

Hi Kim Thanks again for all the information you have provided it will hopefully get us 1 step nearer our booster jabs.

Bob 

Hi Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply to my posts it's very much appreciated.

Bob 

Wilbur

Posted: Wed Feb 9, 2022 8:15pm

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Posted: Wed Feb 9, 2022 8:15pm

bobbyboy wrote on Sat Feb 5, 2022 6:23pm:

Hi My wife and I have Spanish residencia and we are not yet at the UK retirement age so are covered for health with a private medical insurance. We don't have a SIP card because on application our old E111 cards had expired. Can anyone tell us with our circumstances how we can get the booster jab...

... here in Spain ( Torrevieja area ) Kind regards.

Hi.

My wife and I are in the same boat, being in our 50s, recent residents and had first two jabs in UK.

We went to local Health Centre in La Siesta and registered with our UK COVID certificates, Passports, Padron, EHIC, and privates Health card.

We received appointments for our booster there and then and were given temp SIP cards. 

Make sure you tell the nurse it's a booster you want and show your papers for jabs 1&2 , just to avoid any confusion.

This was last week.

bobbyboy

Posted: Wed Feb 9, 2022 8:59pm

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Posted: Wed Feb 9, 2022 8:59pm

Wilbur wrote on Wed Feb 9, 2022 8:15pm:

Hi.

My wife and I are in the same boat, being in our 50s, recent residents and had first two jabs in UK.

We went to local Health Centre in La Siesta and registered with our UK COVID certificates, Passports, Padron, EHIC, and privates Health card.

We received appointments for our booster there and then and were given temp SIP cards. 

Make sure you tell the nurse it's a booster you want and show your papers for jabs 1&2 , just to avoid any confusion.

This was last week.

Hi Wilber

Thank you for taking the time to reply it's good to hear from you.

Much appreciated

Bob

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