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Mijas Foreigners Department

A vital free service to foreign residents since 1985 – find out more! Mijas is a municipality in Malaga province in Andalucia, lying between Fuengirola and Marbella. Mijas now has nearly 90,000 registered residents, more than 35% of whom are non-Spanish. The vast majority are British, Scandinavian and German, but in total there are no…

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