Here is the short version of my and my son’s experience in trying to get his Russian girlfriend residence in Spain, the version that doesn’t involve the easy route of getting married!
My sons girlfriend was brought to Spain 6 years ago by her mother (she had no choice) as she was underage, they came on a schengen visa which expired whilst they were here. Years later she met my son and they have been going out for 3 years and 18 months ago decided to get her legal in Spain (haha).
The legal route (farce) involved taking 4 months aquiring paperwork from her home country (Russia doesn’t like giving this easily), then having a job offer here in spain, then submitting all the paperwork to the immigration department which is manned by incompetent retards.
They accepted all the paperwork as it was all in perfect order, they then say the process of administering it will take upto 3 months (Spanish 3 months = 1 year+). After endless trips to the immigration department having waited 8 months we find out that the paper which was obtain from my local town hall (stating she actually lives here), should have been submitted by the townhall itself and not by hand from us, the townhall knew this apparently, but still gave it us. Therefore, this had to be obtained again from the townhall, it took the town hall 4 months to submit this paper to the immigration department. Several more months later we are informed that all the paperwork is out of date and the job offer expired, solely because of the racist bitch at the townhall.
In other words several thousand euros of paperwork is now fit only for the dustbin! She could not obtain any more job offers as most companies are now either not employing or have gone bust! Sign of a crap run country I believe.
The only solution to this scenario was to obtain a work contract from a third party in which they have to supply their previous tax declarations and have a minimum of 30,000 euros in their bank at all times. Yeah this is going to happen, who in their right mind is going to go to this trouble for anyone thesedays.
They have, after all the aggravation, decided that Spain is a backward (retarded) country that imposes impossible conditions upon potential immigrants for the sole purpose of extracting their money from them. My son chose to leave Spain immediately after this decision, in order to pave the way forward elsewhere.
I feel so pissed about this I have relocated my business out of Spain to another forward thinking country in Europe, the result of which saw 24 Spaniards lose their jobs because of their governments spiteful attitude. And mine in return because of what they did (an eye for an eye).
The new business has been running now in the other EU country for 3 months, in that time I have managed to setup this business, employ a dozen staff, get her legal and resident. She now contributes tax to her new country. What a sad state of affairs that Spain, which is so far in the crap that it needs to rip off immigrants. Well I can say that Spain just lost a hell of a lot more than they screwed her out of!
Spain needs to be thrown out of the EU, all they do is take and contribute nothing.
