Spain Forum

Working in Spain on a research visa? What about my wife?

2013-05-18T04:30:11+01:00

I have been granted an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate scholarship to Spain. I am a Pakistani Citizen and my wife is a US Citizen.

My questions are:

1. On my visa (“visado de investigación para residencia temporal y trabajo para investigación” or “visado para residencia con exceptuación de permiso de trabajo”) am I allowed to work part-time (e.g. as a waiter, or some other job in addition to my PhD)?

2. My wife will get “visado para residencia temporal” (visa for temporal residence) or a “visado de residencia no lucrativa” (non lucrative visa). Is my wife allowed to work in Spain on this Visa?

Spain Citizenship Questions - Please HELP!

2013-04-28T20:44:21+01:00

Hello All!

I am sure there has been answers to similar situations & there is a ton of great info on here but its a bit hard to filter through everything and find situations that apply directly to myself & I would really love & NEEEEED your help!

I am in engaged to a spanish women and I will be moving to spain (from the US) August 1st. We are going to get married in August & I would like to apply for my citizenship as soon as possible.

I have vacationed to spain my whole life and love it there plus my fiancees family lives there so we want to be close to them! I want to be able to live there as soon as possible without visa hassles, extentions, etc.

Can anyone please explain the process getting married (i know there is a process to get marriage license), applying for residency and getting your citizenship & the possible time frames?

Also…Is there any advantage or disadvantage to us getting married in the states verse spain?

I have read a lot online but would really love to talk to a few people that have went thru the process. Thank you very much!

Dual Nationality Who has it and What Countries!

2009-08-03T13:22:25+01:00

Hi All

Out of interest I am doing this post to see who has Dual Nationality.

I Have British Passport (Born In UK) and Have Spanish Dual Nationality (Mum Spanish)

Does anyone have the same if not what dual nationality do you have!

As There is conflict of interest with the British and Spanish (Apparently Its ILLEGAL…) For the last 32 years I changed my Passports with no problems…

Mac

Freelance work permit NOT self-employed word permit

2013-03-14T04:30:13+01:00

Hello everyone,

I have been searching and searching for definitive information with regards to obtaining a FREELANCE WORK PERMIT and not self employed to start my own company by depositing 150,000 euros! I am NOT a journalist either. I am a certified English Instructor and have been teaching for nearly 15 years. First in the late 90’s in Spain. I had a bank account, rental lease and actually worked in a school. They made promises and I gave up and returned to the states. If I would have stayed, I would have fallen under the grandfather clause and would have been able to stay…..legally.

Non-eu and from the States, I speak sufficient Spanish and Italian and do all the trinity and Cambridge exams, as well as TOEFL. Business English to even young learners and no lawyers here have a clue of how to apply. I know how to apply and have my back ground check with the hague apostille and medical certificate. I teach online and have a contract with a company here in the states for teaching their expats, as well as my own private students, online. What is it going to take to get this permit and someone that can help me get it? I am so frustrated! I want to do it legally and I want to contribute to the economy in Spain, etc. Yes, that means moving back to Europe, I lived in Italy for 6 years and wish I would have stayed! Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Permanent residency application has been refused

2013-03-14T20:28:38+01:00

My brother has been living in Spain legally for over five years now and applied for permanent residency but due to having more than 12 months gap between continuous (its 15 months) his application has been refused. He has been given the right to appeal. i am wondering what will happen now if does not get the permanent residency now would he be able to extend his current visa and how long after can he apply for the permanent residency. I would appreciate any help you can give me. He has non EU passport (indian passport)

Many thanks

Nirmal

Can I apply to become a Spanish citizen

2013-02-24T20:46:06+01:00

I am Australian ,married to a British ,lived in Spain since 1998 . We have 3 children who are British .I have Spanish residence ,my residence expires in 2017 . My husband is self-employed and has been living in Spain for over 20 years. I have worked in Spain and at the moment work as a supply teacher / teachers assistant. I would like to know if I can apply for Spanish citizen as have lived in Spain for over 10 years. Thanks .

Help!!Work Permit for Research Purposes in Spain

2013-02-02T14:37:07+01:00

Many thanks for the establishment of this great website!!

I have a question related to work permit for research purposes in Spain. I will go to a Spanish University as a researcher. Wherever I look, they all say that the permit should be finalized in 45 days. I am waiting for almost two months but it is still being processed and not yet granted..Does anyone have an idea about the processing times of such work permit for research purposes in Spain? As far as I know, such kind of a work permit should not take as much time as an ordinary work permit.
Thanks in advance!!

Renewing Residency Visas - need help!

2012-11-30T15:00:08+01:00

So, my husband and I moved to Spain last February with non-lucrative visas and are getting ready to renew soon. We used an attorney here in Barcelona to initially obtain the visas after unsuccessfully trying to get all the documentation together ourselves. When we arrived, she helped us get our residence cards but turned out to be a little shady and i’m having a hard time trusting her. Basically, when we arrived, we had an address in Alicante and she insisted that we needed an address in Barcelona (where she is based) despite informing us that our visa/residence cards allow us to live anywhere in Spain. So she had us use the address of one of her “colleagues” but in order to use it, we needed to pay extra fees. I just thought the whole thing was a little unusual. Anyway, now we have these residence cards with the Barcelona address.

Fast forward to the present, we are now actually living in Barcelona but not at the address on our cards. I e-mailed the lawyer when we moved here and she said we should wait to change the address until we renew. So we didn’t do anything when we moved here. Now that it is getting close to the time we need to renew, I sent her an e-mail and she is asking for information regarding how much money we have (we had to show that initially for the non-lucrative visa) but also information we never had to provide such as credit card statements and how much money we can withdraw per day. She also wants us to show that we have private insurance (when we last spoke, she told us we didn’t need it but we did end up getting it anyway just to be safe). It just seems to me that the process for renewing a residence visa should be (1) going to the ajuntament of our neighborhood and getting the documentation showing our new address; (2) taking that information to the police station; (3) asking for a renewal and an updated address on the card. It doesn’t make sense to me that we would have to show all this financial information for a renewal when we already did that when we applied.

I guess i’m just asking if anyone has been through this process of renewing a residency visa and if anyone can shine some light on this for me? I am thinking this is something we could do ourselves without the lawyer, but if it is normal to show all of this financial information, then I guess we will just do it. Can anyone help? Thanks!

How long does it take?

2012-10-25T13:04:04+01:00

Hi!!
I am a EU citizen (Holland) and my husband is Canadian. We also have a daughter who has dual citizenship in bot Canada and Holland. We all went to the extranjeros office in Granada where me and my daughter immediately received residential status the same day. We had to hire a lawyer and come back for my husband. We did have all the requiered documents and the application seemed to be accepted. After a month or 2 he also received a temporary NIE. This all took place in November 2011. Now we are almost a year later and have not heard anything from extranjeros. The lawyer told us it could take a long time and we would receive a letter in the mail to come and pick up his NIE (green form). Does anyone know how long the process takes and do we actually get notified by mail when the process is finished.
Thanks!!!

Margaret

Pareja de Hecho finalized. Non-EU partner. What now? Help please!

2012-09-21T17:55:53+01:00

Hello to all.

Here is my situation; I have been in Spain three weeks now. I am an american citizen with a Spanish girlfriend and I moved here to do a pareja de hecho with her. We have been extremely lucky to have been granted the pareja de hecho the same week we applied for it. We are now officially a pareja de hecho as of yesterday.

The problem I have now is where do I go from here? No one has really given us a straight answer on what I need to do next in order to have permission to work? Is the NIE the next step? We did the pareja de hecho in the province of Albacete, does that mean I must go to that province’s extranjería in order to apply for the NIE?

They are telling me I need to have 5-6000 euros in a bank account, and medical insurance in order to get a NIE.

Can anyone who has recently done the pareja de hecho perhaps give me some advice here?

Thank you all in advance for your help,

Matt