In terms of the Visa Application: It’s crucial to note that the completion of this process is exclusively in person, necessitating you to physically arrive at local Spanish diplomatic missions or consular offices within your country of residence. Prior to commencing your application, it’s highly recommended that you acquaint yourself with the specificities of the relevant diplomatic mission or consular office.
On the topic of the Residency Permit: For those currently residing in Spain lawfully, the application process can be conveniently completed online. This may be achieved via the E-portal of the Large Company and Strategic Groups Unit (UGE-CE).
Procedure 1: Procure and duly complete the national visa application form, outlining your intended reason for travel. For those travelling accompanied by family, each member should similarly download, fill out and sign an independent national visa application form, subsequently submitting the forms together in unison.
Procedure 2: Schedule an appointment with either the diplomatic mission or consular office within your residing country. It’s compulsory to apply for the visa in person unless there’s a valid reason to justify exceptional cases where the consulate may grant permission for the application to be filed via an authorized representative.
Procedure 3: Submit the requisite fee associated with the International teleworker residence visa. Details of the set fee rate can be found below.
Procedure 4: Presentation of necessary documents direct to your residing country’s diplomatic mission or consular office for the purpose of visa application.
Procedure 5: Visa acquisition. Once your documentation has been confirmed, the set fee remitted and all listed requirements met, a decision will ensue about your residency visa for international teleworkers (digital nomads).
You will receive a notification from the diplomatic mission or consular office through email reflecting the outcome of your visa application. Depending on the rules of your residing country, you may either receive the visa at home or would need to pick it up in person from your nation’s diplomatic mission or consular office.
In any event where the visa was denied, an official notification will be delivered to you.
Initiate your application by downloading and filling out the official permit application form MI-T. This document must be appended to your application later on. Notably, the official form is accessible only in Spanish.
If you plan on travelling with your family, please fill in an additional form for every family member who is accompanying you. The appropriate form would be MI-F for each family member intending to join in the permit application. This form is also only available in Spanish.
For those intending to apply for a visa, it’s generally expected that you, the individual applicant, will submit the application yourself. Nonetheless, there may be extraordinary circumstances when your home country’s diplomatic mission or consulate may permit an authorized representative to submit the application on your behalf, granted that persuasive reasons are provided.
However, when it comes to applications for a permit, they may be tendered by yourself, the foreign national, or by an authorized representative.
It is imperative that all submitted documents are translated into Spanish through a certified translation process and are appropriately legalised. Please note, documents in the standard multilingual EU format are exempt from translation and legalisation requirements.
The method of legalisation is dependent on whether the country issuing the document is a party to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961:
In situations where the country that issued the public document is a signatory, validation of the document will be facilitated if adorned with the Hague Apostille stamp. The certificate must be obtained in the originating country.
However, if the country from which the public document originates is not a signatory, the document must undergo the legalisation process via diplomatic channels.
Further information on legalisation and translation of documents are hopefully useful to you.