Visa Questions

📌 SPAIN DIGITAL NOMAD VISA 2026 — Complete Guide ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO QUALIFIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Non-EU/EEA citizens (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, etc.) ✓ Employees of foreign companies (including W-2) ✓ Freelancers with 80%+ income from outside Spain ✓ Minimum income: €2,849/month gross (200% of SMI 2026) ✓ University degree OR 3+ years work experience ✓ Employed/contracting for at least 3 months before applying ✗ EU/EEA citizens — you don't need this visa, see #eu-citizens ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INCOME REQUIREMENTS 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Solo: €2,849/month + Spouse: €3,918/month total + 1 child: €4,274/month total + 2 children: €4,630/month total Pro tip: Show €3,000+ if possible. The buffer helps. Income can be combined (salary + freelance invoices). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ APPLY FROM SPAIN vs FROM YOUR CONSULATE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FROM SPAIN (recommended): → Enter as tourist (visa-free for US/UK/CA/AU) → Apply to UGE before your 90 days expire → Get 3-year residence permit directly → Processing: ~20 working days FROM YOUR CONSULATE: → Apply before you leave → Get 1-year visa → Must convert to 3-year permit once in Spain → More steps, same result ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DOCUMENT CHECKLIST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Valid passport (6+ months remaining) ✓ Application form (EX-10 or via UGE portal) ✓ Passport photos ✓ Criminal background check (apostilled + translated) ✓ Degree certificate (apostilled + translated) ✓ Employment contract or client contracts (3+ months old) ✓ Employer authorization letter for remote work ✓ Company registration certificate (apostilled) ✓ Last 3 months bank statements showing income ✓ Last 3 months payslips (if employee) ✓ Private health insurance certificate ✓ Proof of address in Spain For W-2 employees add: ✓ CA3822 form from SSA (or declaration of Spanish SS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HEALTH INSURANCE — WHAT GETS ACCEPTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Must be private, valid in Spain, no end date. Consulate-accepted options: → Sanitas (~€65/mo) — Spanish insurer, zero issues → AXA Spain (~€80/mo) — widely accepted → Cigna Global (~€120/mo) — accepted everywhere → Allianz Care (~€90/mo) — most consulates accept SafetyWing: some consulates accept, some don't. Risky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AFTER APPROVAL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Book biometric appointment (fingerprints + photo) 2. Wait 30-45 days for TIE card production 3. Collect TIE card at police station 4. Register with Agencia Tributaria (modelo 030) 5. Apply for Beckham Law within 6 months of step 4 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROCESSING TIME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UGE must respond within 20 working days by law. No response = automatic approval (favorable silence). Total process door-to-TIE: approximately 10-14 weeks. Questions below 👇

🛂 You can live legally in Spain as a remote worker. Here's how. The Spain Digital Nomad Visa is real, it works, and people are getting approved every week. Including W-2 employees, freelancers, and people who applied from inside Spain as tourists. But the process has some specific traps that catch people out — wrong documents, missing apostilles, the wrong type of health insurance. Most rejections are avoidable. The pinned post below covers everything: income requirements, document checklist, W-2 process, applying from Spain vs from your consulate, and what happens after you submit. Read it. Save it. Then ask your questions here. 👇