Live in Spain without working. If you can prove you have enough economic resources to be able to support yourself during your stay, you can live in Spain.

Limitations: You will not be allowed to work in Spain. You can be outside of Spain a maximum of 180 days per year.

Our experts in immigration law will help you determine which type of residency  is the best for your specific case, taking into consideration your long and short term needs.

As the foreign person can’t apply for self-employed work permit while it’s in Spain, the person must go to the Spanish consulate where they live to apply. Our team can help you with consular services in any Country and we can help you obtaining self-employed work permit in Spain.

We help people and companies with all immigration matters, due to it’s a normal practice when a company based in Spain wants to hire a foreigner but the application can be a long process and a lot of documentation is needs, we can do the work for you either if your are an employer or employee, our legal team can help you with the procedure of hiring and obtaining work permit in Spain.

That the national employment situation allows for hiring, which means:

• The occupation that the worker is going to carry out in the company is included in the catalog of occupations that are difficult to cover, published by the Public Employment Service on a quarterly basis.
• An authority at the Immigration Office considers that it has not been possible to meet the requirements of the job in accordance with the job posting issued by the Public Employment Service.
• The authorization is targeted to nationals of States with which Spain has signed international agreements (Chile and Peru)..
• They can prove the concurrence of an assumption included in article 40 of the Organic Law 4/2000

• Present a contract signed by the employer and worker that guarantees the worker continuous work during the period of validity of the authorization to reside and work.

In other hand,  if you have a job offer in Spain in a highly qualified position or you have a qualified degree at a prestigious university and would like to work in Spain, then the highly skilled professional visa is your work permit.

If you want to take a course which will last more than three months, you need a visa to properly enter into the Schengen area. This visa gives you the authorization to study, not to work.

The first Study Visa must be requested at the Spanish Consulate of your country of origin or residence. It cannot be requested in Spain while you are a tourist.

Requirements to obtain a study visa:

• Have been admitted into an officially recognized institution in Spain for the purpose of studying full-time in a program working towards obtaining a degree or certificate of studies. The course can’t be online or semi-presential.
• Have sufficient economic means for yourself to cover your expenses during your stay and return to your country.
• Depending on the consulate where you need to apply, some details will vary for the insurance, such as length of stay.
• Criminal record will be needed if you are an adult.

Can be requested in Spain, at the immigration office. You don’t need to go back to your country if you want to take the next courses of your studies in Spain.

Within 60 days before your authorization for a study stay expires, you can request the renewal of the authorization. To do this you must continue to meet same requirements as in your original visa application, that is, have financial means, medical insurance and have no criminal record. In addition, you must have completed the studies for which you were registered and be enrolled in the next course.

You also can get an authorization to work while you have an student permit. Spanish regulations allow foreigners with a valid study permit to request an authorization to work while they are not studying. That is, part-time while you are taking classes and full-time in the summer.

This type of residency process is for these foreigner who have resided legally in Spain for one year, and if they are going to stay one more year in Spain they can reunificate their family in Spain, applying for a residency and work permit for their family members (spouse, domestic partner, children or parents) who are in their country of origin.

This residency may be granted in certain exceptional family circumstances, in particular when the foreigner in Spain is a father or mother, responsible for and lives with a minor who is a Spanish national or the foreigner is the son or daughter of a Spanish father or mother.

This situation does not require any previous residency in Spain and can the residency permit even be requested during a tourist stay, whenever the following information is provided:

• In the case of being a parent of a minor of Spanish nationality:
  • Birth certificate of the minor, where the family relationship is demonstrated.
  • Family registration (empadronamiento familiar).
  • Criminal record certificate from the country of origin of the individual, duly legalized and translated, where appropriate.

• In the case of being a child of a father or mother of Spanish origin:
  • Birth certificate of the individual, duly legalized and translated where appropriate.
  • Birth certificate from the Spanish Civil Registry, which shows that the nationality of the father or mother is of Spanish origin.
  • Criminal record certificate of the individual, duly legalized and translated where appropriate.