Spain Forum

looking for relatives

2008-07-08T18:31:05+01:00

hi
was wondering where would one start looking in order to find long lost relatives in spain ?

Pm for email. Reason.Stop spamming off your email email address
jurdy

lost N I E number

2008-07-07T21:32:58+01:00

Hi everyone, please can you help!....Im moving back to tenerife next week and i used to have my nie number back in 1999, since being back in uk ive lost my card and information...Will i need to apply for a new one or will my old one still be activated and how do i find this out....thank you!

Two questions! Tourist visa technicalities and working with a student visa

2008-07-08T12:26:41+01:00

Hi all..
I know that with a tourist visa I can stay in the Schengen zone for 90 days of every 6 months. However I’m confused, mathematically…
I entered Italy December 27th of last year, and left January 6th of this year.
I entered Barcelona May 16th of this year and plan to leave on August 6th.
So I’m not sure about how the days are calculated… The 6 months would have started on the 27th of December, right? That means my 90-day limit ran out around June 27th, and restarted June 28th… So I should be able to stay until August 6th and come back to Barcelona for a little while in September with no problem… is this correct?

Also, I’m thinking about getting a student visa so when I return I can stay much longer. I know that I have to go to school for 20 hours a week, and I can work for up to 20 hours a week. Can I work with my student visa or do I need to get an additional work visa? If I get a work contract for longer than my student visa, do I have to go get a work visa?

confusing.... thank you

Tourist Visa Questions

2008-06-30T18:19:23+01:00

Hello, all,

I’m an American planning to work as an au pair in Spain next year. I have two questions, one about whether a particular option is legal and another about the problems I’m likely to have in a particular situation. The au pair agency I’ve chosen has told me I have the followning options, since I am planning to stay in Spain for nine or ten months:

1. Come to Spain on a tourist visa and stay beyond the three month limit and not worry about it. (Most au pairs do this and, in over sixteen years, no one has had any problems.)

2. Come to Spain on a tourist visa and leave and re-enter Spain every three months. To do this, you would need to go and return from your own country.

I asked the agency:

However, to stay legal, it would be necessary to return to my home country or any non-Schengen country for three months before coming back to Spain, correct? (And while working for a family, leaving for three months would of course not be an option.) At least, this is what I’ve gathered from reading forums about visa issues in Spain.

And they wrote back:

To leave Spain and reenter every three months, you can ONLY do this if you return to your home country. You cannot, for example, go to Switzerland, Morocco or Norway.

So my first question is whether this is true--would it be possible for me to return to the US at the end of my three months but stay only a week and then reenter Spain legally? I’d thought that was *not* legally possible, based on what I’d read on this forum.

But even though I’m wondering about whether that option is legal, I really can’t afford to fly back and forth between the US and Spain every three months anyway. So I *AM* planning to overstay my visa (I know I’ll be illegal after ninety days). My family is very upset by the idea of my not being home for Christmas, and I’m wondering whether I’m *likely* to run into problems re-entering Spain if I go back to the US for Christmas after overstaying my tourist visa by a little less than a month. (I’ll have been in Spain since early September.) I know it’s possible that I would have problems with this and no one can tell me for sure, but I just wondered whether any of you know of many people doing this *without* problems or if you know of many people who *have* had problems getting back into Spain.

I hope this post isn’t too confusing. Thanks for your time!

Maria

All-American girl to become criminal?

2008-07-05T01:20:39+01:00

I’m an American recent college grad who will be going to Barcelona in September to work as an au pair. I would like to stay for six months to a year. I’ve discovered that U.S. citizens may only stay in the Schengen nations for 90 days without a visa. I’ve looked over the requirements for the student and work visas, and neither of them are logistically feasible for my circumstances. What will happen when I’m ready to return home and it’s clear that I’ve overstayed? And will it be a problem that I won’t be able to present a return ticket when I enter Spain? I’m set on going to BCN, but my family would be devastated if they knew I was there illegally!
What should I do?

American just married to spaniard

2007-12-06T23:12:31+01:00

Hey I just got married to a Spaniard,in New York unfortunetly he has to be abroad to travel for buisness. i was just in spain on a tourist visa, for 90 days, i want to go back right away to set up house for us can i go back without him going with me even though it hasn’t been 180 days?

Work visa denied?

2008-07-07T11:05:37+01:00

I have an American friend with a job offer in Spain and her company is processing the papers. She’s wondering how probable it is that the visa will be denied or approved? Anyone heard of works visas for Americans getting denied?

travelling to france (driving) but have not applyed for residencia

2008-07-06T15:02:13+01:00

I’m an EU citizen and my husband is american. we arrived in EU beginning of april (throught germany) stayed in france for a while and definitly moved here at the end of may.
we have not yet applied for residencia ( we will in the next few weeks)
we are travelling to france next week-end (driving). could we have problem crossing the border if we get stopped ( the stamp on my husband passport will be passed the 90 days of a few days?). is that a problem ? should we be concerned . notice that we are renting a car going to france

Also do we need to make an appointment at the foreign police to apply for residencia or we just show up very early morning?
we are leaving 40 min away from barcelona can we just go to the local police station to do this ?

I’m a bit paranoid about immigration and they law after dealing with US immigration couple of years ago

thanks
sylvie

NIE for NON residents

2008-07-02T01:04:09+01:00

We were lucky enough to win quite a large amount on the Lottery on our recent holiday in Spain We wanted to put the winnings in a avings account for future use. We were told that we would need a NIE for NON RESIDENTS to open such an account.
The very helpful manager in the CAM sent us off to the main tax office in Alicante. It was HEAVING and the queue just to ask a question was about 30 meters long! We were eventually told we were in the wrong department, and to go over the road to the Sub Delegacion de Hacienda. This we did, and after another long wait in a queue, yet again we were told we were in the wrong department I asked again WHERE we should go, (I do speak fluent Spanish) we were sent to the AVENIDA DE APARICIO the other end of the city grrrrrrrrrh There we had the pleasure ,NOT of speaking to one of the most rude individuals ever! He also told us we were in the wrong biulding, and if we were to return to that office, to get there by 9am.

My question, PLEA is, WHERE on EARTH are we supposed to go? We returned to the bank and the manager telephoned various departments to try and get the correct information for us........ told them what a dreadful impression their offices were giving to foreigners! She was also given the run around being told several different things. We had to return to the UK without achieving anything, but hopefully when we return in a few weeks time, HOPEFULLY we will know EXACTLY what we have to have and WHERE to go.
We would be SO grateful if anyone could give us the correct information. I repeat, this is just to open a bank account and savings account as NON residents in Alicante SPAIN
THANK YOU

overstaying and re-entry

2007-05-07T11:31:00+01:00

Hello all, I´m looking for some advice on a sticky situation

my question is this.....I will soon be coming to the end of my 90 day stay.
However, I have no plans to leave as my girlfriend is Catalá (we are living together in BCN and I am looking for ways to stay legally) actually 2 questions…

1. I have a friend from Ecuador who now lives in Holland, another Schengen country. She was able to get a visa under a “visa de conviviencia” (living together..they only had to show proof of responsibility on the part of the EU citizen, they were married 6 months later, but this had nothing to do with her visa and it was put through rather quickly, 3 weeks!).......does anything like this exist in Spain? I have looked, but can´t find ANYTHING that resembles it. She tells me that as a partner Schengen country that it is sure to exist.

2. I must return to the States to visit family...but if I leave after I have overstayed my 90 days, and want to return, what are the repurcussions......will I be allowed to re-enter after the 3 months, or will I be red-flagged and be penalized upon departure or not allowed re-entry?
I would really appreciate any advice, as I have only about 2 weeks left and am frantic about finding any options that would be better than being on some nasty list!