where to pay residency application fees ???

smadjaa · 2016-12-27T19:29:26+01:00

Struggling to pay residency application fees in Bucharest? Discover tips on navigating bank payments, post office stamps, and official procedures.

smadjaa New member

Member since 17 November 2016

smadjaaNew member27 December 2016 17:29:26

I was in Romania for a week trying to set up my Residency.

I managed to set up my mailing address, my bank account, my insurance...
I had all ready ready to go to apply for my residency.

I thought I finished all the hardest parts and was left with the simplest and easiest which was the application and the fee.

Little did I know paying the FEE was going to defeat me.
It seems it just 7 RON and 4 RON to pay if in undertand the instructions here:
聟 eng.pdf

But wow, I got defeated.
It was my second to last day before having to leave town and I figured I had enough time to submit my application.

I saw an account to pay in the instructions (see link above), so I went to my bank to try and do a bank payment.
They said not possible. They sent me to C.E.C. bank across town.

I get there, turns out C.E.C. in the instructions has nothing to do with CEC bank.
They tell me to try the Office of Taxes and Duties across town.

So I go there, stand in line forever, and they tell me no, they have no idea what this is for.
They send me to police station.

Police station tells me i'm in the wrong district based on my address and tell me to try police station in the district of my address...

With the queues, the cold and taxis hard to find, this took me 2 days and I had to leave town by then...
so I never found out how to pay the damn tax... how is this so difficult? lol

I see the instructions say you can get a stamp at the post office for the second fee, but it is not clear if that works for the first fee as well?

Any ideas on how to pay this damn fee? so frustrating !! lol :-)
It's driving me crazy and not speaking Romanian everything is so much harder....
Thank you for any help.

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GuestPoster491Guest28 December 2016 05:56:04

The taxes can be paid at CEC bank or the Treasury.

Well what you experienced is the time old local tradition of incompetent workers whose only answer is to pass the buck.聽 They wouldn't dare lose face and ask a co-worker or their superior for help in order to solve the request.聽

You should print out the page from IGI which states that it's paid at CEC and shows the account number.聽 Based on that, they can figure it out hopefully.

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smadjaa New member

Member since 17 November 2016

smadjaaNew member28 December 2016 15:54:42

I did show them the paper... granted it was in English.. but it had the account number...
:-(

so you say not buy the stamp at the post office for both, but go to the treasury instead? may I ask where is the treasury or what it is called so I can look it up on google?

thanks :-)

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GuestPoster491Guest29 December 2016 05:50:35

smadjaa wrote:
so you say not buy the stamp at the post office for both, but go to the treasury instead? may I ask where is the treasury or what it is called so I can look it up on google?

thanks :-)

No, that's is not what I said.聽 I said it can be paid at CEC or the Trezorerie

If you want to go to ANAF (Trezorerie) you can based on your location.聽 Personally I would prefer going to CEC.聽 ANAF can be really crowded and they are often not patient.聽 It's your call.