greetings! i have read really helpful messages and hope you too can help us. Got my Spanish citizenship after years of wait since I have a Spanish father. Was raised and born in the Philippines and my dad died when i was very young and never learned the language. recently registered and they gave me and my 2 children spanish passports and my marriage with my wife is registered in my libro de familia. recently moved my family to Ireland to work since i don’t speak spanish and feels it will be difficult to survive in spain without knowing the language but needed to flee the terrible Philippine Government. Would want to move to spain so my wife too can get her own spanish citizenship but its so hard to ask help at their embassy here in Ireland and we’ve been scorned for holding a spanish passports and not speak the language so i opted to ask for your expert opinion since medium of language here is english. people at the spanish embassy was not even helpful when we tried to register here and had difficulty cause their forms did not have english translations, routine for most forms right since English is the international language? 😊
we plan to visit spain soon and see if moving my family to spain will be a good move for us. hope you can give us input on this. my wife (filipino also) is holding a residency card here in ireland but pending the issuance of her EU spouse documents (they say can take 6mos to 1 year) she needs visa to travel still. am i correct to assume that i just need her to apply for a short term stay visa and if we like spain, what are the steps to do so she too can have her spanish citizenship.Will it be better for us to just wait for her EU spouse documents next year and probably make her apply for Irish citizenship (but this takes 5 years stay in ireland before they process it and after processing, another minimum 1 year wait versus being told that she only needs to stay in spain for a year and she can have her own citizenship, is this true?) Do i have to be in spain with my wife or i can continue to work here in ireland and just visit my wife and kids regularly in spain?
Do i have to be in spain with my wife or i can continue to work here in ireland and just visit my wife and kids regularly in spain?
thank you and more power to your website!
hope you can help us.
maryg
An EU resident from outside of Spain but married to a Spanish citizen needs to be resident in Spain for a period of 1 yr to be eligible to apply for Spanish citizenship.
A non EU citizen can become a Spanish citizen after a period of residency of 10 Yrs.
You probably could still work in Ireland and your wife life in Spain, but she does need to be a resident of Spain and you`d need to prove your family home was Spain.
your wife has to be EU resident are have work visa for ireland ..... make sure she registor with the garda in Ireland
pm me and i fill you in
jurdy
will be in ireland next few days
thanks so much, yes my wife is registered with garda, they gave her 1 year stamp 4 which will allow her to set up a business or work in ireland without work permit. they also gave her multiple reentry visa allowing her to travel and we are hoping to visit spain soon and check if life in spain will suit us, but 10 years? was informed in the Philippines it will take a year, but wanted to check cause embassy here in dublin said, after a stay in spain for a year, her residency can be processed… so maybe that is the 10 years you meant, might be best if that’s the case to just stay here in ireland for the time being and be with my family, but will not close my doors after we visit spain. again thanks and hope to hear more feedback.
You situation is slightly different as your from an Iberio-American country, so after 2 yrs of legal residency you can apply for Spanish citizenship.
Other Nationalities including the EU its 10 yrs, unless married to a citizen or having Spanish parents.
There will be a change in 2008 under the “Law of Historic Memory” that now allows children of parents/grandparent who fled Spain for Political or Economic reason`s during the Civil War and Franco years.
A non EU citizen can become a Spanish citizen after a period of residency of 10 Yrs.
G’day Santi, does this apply also to Filipino citizen working in Spain? I thought its only 2 years?
Cheers,
instigator
NO! Filipinos, can because of the Philippines being a former colony, obtain Spanish citizenship in 2 years. Out of topic: I did live in the Philippines for three years (I am not Filipino), but it is nice to read your comments about your government, coming from a Filipino.During my life, I did travel the world extensively and did live for a longer period of time in 8 different countries. In my opinion Filipino government and rich Filipinos, are some of the most disgusting people on the planet. They colonize, discriminate, plunder and enslave there own kind.
Eva33
filipinos, south americans, ecuatorial quineans, sephardic jews can start applying for spanish citizenship after completing two years legal residence in spain.
lines for residency have grown 200x since the influx of south american immigrants and the new european immigrants from the union.
there are further requirements while you are applying.
fellow filipino in ireland, if you plan to move to spain be sure to be able to speak some spanish. there may be a few jobs in spain that may not require it at the beginning but common sense will tell you that to live in a new country requires learning their language to communicate. when a tagalog goes to live in ilocos, the sooner he learns ilocano the better for his sake.
forms (especially for immigration to spain) in the spanish embassy are in spanish of course, you cannot require them to produce a document in english since spanish is also an international language.
what i do not understand is how your wife got a residency in ireland but not in spain. anyway, if your wife has a garda, both of you can fly to spain, no problem and you can apply for her residency in spain right here. i would suggest that you get a job here before you ask her to come over.
filipinos, south americans, ecuatorial quineans, sephardic jews can start applying for spanish citizenship after completing two years legal residence in spain.”“”
I wonder if staying in Spain on a student visa counts towards this 2 year residency requirement for purposes of applying for citizenship.
filipinos, south americans, ecuatorial quineans, sephardic jews can start applying for spanish citizenship after completing two years legal residence in spain.
I wonder if staying in Spain on a student visa counts towards this 2 year residency requirement for purposes of applying for citizenship.
a student visa in spain does not count as 2 year residency requirement in order to apply for citizenship. Although, if you can find an employer who will hire you while you have a student card, you can change it into residence card. if you have had a student card for 3 years, you do not have to go back to the philippines to get the residence visa at the spanish embassy, that requirement is waved. you just have to submit the other requirements, such as nbi clearance from the philippines, some others that you get right here in spain.
this situation may change once the alien law is modified.
the spanish embassy issues the libro de familia if the birth or marriage or death or divorce certificates are already bound in a book in the registro civil central in madrid. why? because to apply for it you have to give the page number and book number. if you have these you can apply for them online, what i do not know is if they mail it internationally.
if you have the birth certificates, why do you need the libro de familia?
hi thanks for your reply..i got married with a spanish national in the philippines. i was informed that i need to submit my marriage cert from the nso to the spanish embassy in the philippines as a requirement for the libro de familia. assuming,i submitted it, how long does it take for the libro de familia?i need that to apply for the residence visa. hope you can give me input re this.thanks:-)
keikei,
it depends, if the spanish embassy issues the libro de familia to reflect your marriage on the basis of the nso marriage cert, maybe fast. but if they issue the libro de familia on the basis of an annotation of the marriage in the spanish birth certificate of your spouse or the registry of the marriage in madrid it may take a long time because they have to send the report to the registro civil central in madrid, and that document will have to take its turn from among the documents coming from all over the world. but maybe they are doing it online now, i am not sure. they can inform you better. some women from the dominican republic who married spaniards told me some it took 6 months some 1 year, that was 3 years ago. if you are a woman, do not change your lastname in your filipino passport to save you the problem of changing back to your birthname once you apply for spanish citizenship. there is no such thing as marrried name as spanish citizen.
but do not be in a hurry because it is hard to get a job in spain right now, study spanish first to compete better with the south americans. get intensive courses at the instituto cervantes in manila. before you know it after a year you are ready to go with the libro de familia, residence visa and compete for jobs, go to the market, talk to the police, banks, etc.
