Vaccinations - Page 2

Great! Where did it have it done please? I’m thinking of asking if I can have it as I’m gonna be 71 and I’m asthmatic, they might give me. I live in Los Gallardos but here in the medical centre no one knows anything. Someone told Mojacar Pueblo is much better. 

Marcioca  I don't think you can ask for the vaccination you just have to wait until your area calls you.  If you are registered at the medical centre they will call you or message you.  You also can't choose where you go to get it either.

Alicia

They won’t register me in the Medical Centre where I live because I have been waiting for my residency for 6 months! My husband got his two months ago but only now did he manage to get an appointment to go to Huercal Overa to be registered into the Health System. So he’ll will be in the queue waiting for a call for Covid hopefully in the next few weeks. As the Spain central government clearly announced that “EVERYONE in this country will and is entitled to get the Covid vaccine REGARDLESS of their resident status, I thought I could ask anyone in the area. Town Hall, other medical centres, INSS, anyone that can take this seriously and offer vaccine to people like me. 

In U.K. I would have had in January and have been called a few times by the NHS . Unfortunately it’s not that simple to “pop back to U.K.” for that. I’d like to but there’s quarantine, few negative Covid tests and the second jab is not within 3 weeks, it’s after 12 weeks for the second jab (we don’t own a home there any longer) So, wait for 12 weeks or come back and then go back 12 weeks later for the second jab. . That’s why I’m a bit frustrated. Being asthmatic, I’m a bit worried..

Don’t know why residency is taking so long! I’ve sent my application thru lawyers with everything that they asked for and could possibly ask for. Totally legal here:  property bought July/2020,outright, moved in to Spain September/2020 , U.K. pensioner, more than enough funds to live here, etc etc. Entitled by law to live here legally and have be in the health system which is anyway, paid by the U.K. having produced the S1 form.

i have been told that you can register at the local medical centre just for the Covid vaccination even if they won't register you for health care so try to do that if you don't speak Spanish then take an interpreter with you.  You wouldn't be able to return to the UK for it anyway if you don't have a home there unless you follow a similar action and as you say you couldn't be there to receive the 2nd dose.  Everything has been delayed due to Covid restrictions an the flood of Brits applying for a TIE after Brexit which has overwhelmed the Spanish authorities so that is why it is taking so long.  And because they are treating everyone as an individual and not couples it has split the procedures.  Hopefully they will get on top of it soon  it would have been so much easier if they had spread it out to the local town halls or police stations but red tape in Spain is a way of life unfortunately.

Hi Alicia

I have asked to be registered just for Covid but the young lady at reception didn’t seem to want to do it. I do speak Spanish fluently! She just keeps asking me to sort out my Tarjeta Sanitária !

As for U.K., I didn’t explain properly: I do have family and friends I can stay with. We just don’t have our own home as we sold it. Built I am entitled to travel there anyway holding a British passport. We just don’t want to stay 3 months to wait for second dose.

What we were surprised about them delaying mine residency, is that my husband having an Irish citizenship and applied for his residency as a European Union citizen which, in itself, would give me a legal right- if anything- to get my right to live here with him, my direct relative! I know about the backlog which is frustrating because some of those who applied last minute could have applied like one year or more before Brexit kicked in. 

I have just got an email from our lawyers telling me that people who applied about 2 weeks before me are now having  their appointments. It’s something to show me light at the end of the tunnel at least.