Casino for foreign residents in Spain: what to upload with a NIE, a TIE or only a passport
Before you sign up · residents without a Spanish DNI
If you live in Spain without a Spanish DNI, looking for a casino without ID is nothing unusual: you simply do not hold that document. The good news is that no casino on our list asks for the DNI by name. The bad news is that a NIE and the green certificate are not enough on their own. Here is what to upload for what you hold.
Millions of people live in Spain without a Spanish DNI: European citizens with their registration certificate, workers and students from outside the EU on a TIE, new arrivals on a passport. For all of them a casino without ID is not a shortcut: it is the only option that fits the papers they hold.
What the casinos' rules say
We read the terms of every casino on our list. Not one names the DNI or the NIE. They speak of an «ID document», «identification documents» or a «valid ID»: an identity document, without saying from which country. That means no written rule shuts a foreign resident out.
What verification processes do is compare the photograph on the document with a selfie. So the key question for a foreign resident is this: does your document carry a photograph?
| What you hold | Who it is for | Photo on it? | What to upload |
|---|---|---|---|
| DNI | Spanish nationals | ✓ | A photo of both sides. It is what almost every form expects from a Spanish resident. |
| Passport | Anyone | ✓ | The photo page, whole and without glare. It is the document every verification process we have seen accepts. |
| TIE | Non-EU residents | ✓ | The foreigner identity card, with a photo. Upload both sides; if the form does not recognise it, use the passport. |
| EU registration certificate | EU, EEA or Switzerland | — | It proves residence and carries the NIE, but it is not a photo document. Send it alongside a passport or your own country’s identity card. |
| National EU identity card | EU, EEA or Switzerland | ✓ | Your country’s identity card works as the photo document; the green certificate goes with it as proof of residence. |
| The NIE number alone | Anyone | — | The NIE is a number, not a document. Type it if the form asks, but it will not verify the account. |
The NIE: a number, not a document
The NIE (Número de Identidad de Extranjero) is, as the administration itself describes it, a personal, unique and exclusive number assigned to foreign nationals with economic, professional or social ties to Spain. It is communicated in writing, but it is not a card.
What that means for a casino:
- If the form has a field for a document number, you can type your NIE into it.
- If the form asks you to upload a document, the NIE will not do: it has no photograph and no card to photograph. Upload your TIE or your passport.
Plenty of people say «I have a NIE» when they mean «I have a TIE» or «I have the green certificate». The difference is worth keeping straight, because to a casino they are very different things.
The TIE: the card with a photograph
The TIE (Tarjeta de Identidad de Extranjero) is the card issued to non-EU nationals authorised to stay or reside for more than six months. It carries a photograph, identifies its holder and shows that they are in Spain lawfully.
To a casino, a TIE works as an identity document: upload both sides, in good light. The only trouble that tends to come up is technical: some forms offer nothing but «passport», «identity card» or «driving licence». If you see no option that fits, use the passport and do not waste time.
The EU registration certificate
If you are from another EU country, the European Economic Area or Switzerland and have lived in Spain for more than three months, you hold the registration certificate: the famous «green certificate». It records your name, nationality, address, NIE and date of registration.
For a casino it has two sides:
- It does not work as an identity document, because it carries no photograph. For that, your national card or your passport.
- It can work as proof of residence, because it records your address in Spain. If the casino asks for a proof of address and you have no bills in your name, ask whether they accept it.
Passport only
If you have just arrived and hold nothing but a passport, you are in the best possible position on the identity side: the passport is the document every process we have seen accepts. The hard part will be the proof of address, if one is asked for. We cover that in proof of address and selfie.
Five pointers for foreign residents
- Register the name as it stands in the passport, with every surname and in the same order. Differences in transliteration are the first cause of refusal.
- Put Spain as your country of residence if you live here, and check that Spain is not on the casino's excluded-country list.
- Keep the document in date. A TIE that expired while you are renewing will not do; use the passport.
- Prepare the proof of address early: a bill, a Spanish bank statement or a certificate of municipal registration.
- If the form does not recognise your document, write to support before uploading anything unusual. Ask which types they take.
Which casino to choose without a Spanish DNI
On our turn board there is no casino that asks for the DNI by name, so in theory any of them will take you. In practice you want one that says clearly which papers it wants and when, so that you do not find out with your balance held. Rakebit says everything: an identity document, a selfie and a proof of address at the first withdrawal. And at Vave, the casino this site links to, sign-up is by email and we collected two withdrawals without papers, though it keeps the right to ask (clause 8.7).
Before depositing anywhere, spend two minutes checking the licence: there is no sense in guarding your papers and then sending them to a site with no licence at all.