For citizens of the EU, the EEA or Switzerland living in Spain for more than 3 months: compulsory registration with your NIE.
€125VAT included · government fees not included
Which procedure do I need?
Answer a few questions about your situation and we tell you which routes could fit your case, with their price. This is general guidance: the decision always rests with the authorities.
To take the test you need JavaScript turned on. In the meantime, these are the most common situations:
- I want my first residence permit
- I have the permit from the extraordinary regularisation
- My arraigo is about to expire
- I want to renew my residence permit
- I am a family member of a Spanish national
- I am a family member of someone from another EU country
- I want to bring my family to Spain
- My application was refused
Question of
Before you start
- Just a few questions, one per screen.
- On every screen you can choose “I don't know” and go back without losing your answers.
- It runs in your browser: nothing is sent or saved.
Do you currently have a permit or a pending application?
We mean permits for a stay or for residence in Spain.
Which permit do you have, or did you have?
Do you, or does someone in your close family, have Spanish nationality or the nationality of another country in the EU, the EEA or Switzerland?
Close family: partner, children, father or mother. EU: European Union. EEA: European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).
How long have you been living in Spain without interruption?
If you applied for international protection, the time your application was pending does not count for arraigo (art. 126.b).
Do you have a signed employment contract or a job offer, or do you want to be self-employed?
Are you studying, or are you going to enrol on a course?
Have you recently had an application refused, or been asked for documents?
Routes that could fit your caseBest to look at it with you
Based on your answers, these routes could fit your case. For each one you'll see the requirements, the documents and the price breakdown.
From your answers we can't point you to a specific route. This is very common when there are doubts: tell us about your situation and a member of the team will give you guidance. The first guidance on WhatsApp is free.
For an appeal for reconsideration (recurso de reposición) you have 1 month from the day you are notified of the refusal (Ley 39/2015, art. 124). If more time has passed, tell us about your case and we'll look at what options are left.
A formal request for documents (requerimiento) is not appealed: you reply within the time limit it gives. If you like, we prepare the reply with you.
While your application for international protection is open, you cannot apply for an arraigo (art. 126.a), and that time does not count towards the 2 years (art. 126.b). We don't handle asylum: for that, we recommend a specialist organisation or a lawyer.
While you have a pending application, you cannot apply for an arraigo (art. 126.h). The usual approach is to wait for the reply and answer on time if you are asked for anything.
If you already have a permit or a pending application, arraigo is not your route (art. 126.h). If you're not sure, we help you check.
If your permit expired more than 3 months ago, you can no longer apply for a renewal or an extension. There are other routes, and we explain them to you.
With the permit from the extraordinary regularisation, you don't apply for a new arraigo. In the 2 months before it expires, you need to apply for the change to a residence and work permit (art. 191) or, if that isn't possible, the exceptional extension (additional provisions 20 and 21, section 10).
Your arraigo lasts 1 year. In the 2 months before it expires, you can apply for the extension (art. 132.3) or, if you have a job, the change to a residence and work permit (art. 191).
From what day can you apply? Work it out with the deadline tool
The renewal depends on whether your family member is Spanish or from another EU country: each case has its own rules.
The long-term residence permit does not expire, but the card (TIE) does need renewing: after 5 years, then every 5 years until you are 30, and every 10 years after that (arts. 178.1 and 185.1).
Each permit has its own rules for renewing or changing it. It's best for a member of the team to look at yours.
If you have finished higher education and don't have a job offer yet, there is also a residence permit to look for work or start a business project (art. 190.10).
Almost all types of arraigo require 2 continuous years in Spain (art. 126.b). If you don't have them yet, we can look with you at what options there are and what to prepare in the meantime.
Almost all types of arraigo require 2 continuous years in Spain (art. 126.b). If you don't know from when they count, we help you work it out. See the types of arraigo
All types of arraigo also have common requirements (art. 126): for example, not having another permit or another pending residence application. See the common requirements
This is general guidance: it does not replace a review of your case, and the decision always rests with the authorities.
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Do you want to bring your family from your home country? See family reunification
To ask the same authority to review an immigration refusal, within the month after the notification.
From €540VAT included · government fees not included
For people who already have the authorisation from the 2026 extraordinary regularisation and must decide what to apply for before it expires.
Fixed price before we start
To move from temporary residence, such as arraigo, to a residence and work authorisation without leaving Spain.
Fixed price before we start
To apply for 1 more year of your socio-labour, social, second-chance or socio-training arraigo before it expires.
Fixed price before we start
If you have 5 years of legal residence in Spain: authorisation to live and work indefinitely, national or EU.
€195VAT included · government fees not included
If your work, family reunification or non-lucrative residence is about to expire: renewal of the authorisation and a new TIE.
€245VAT included · government fees not included
If you are the partner, son, daughter, father or mother of a Spanish national: 5-year residence to live and work in any sector.
€345VAT included · government fees not included
If your partner, father, mother or child is from another EU country and lives in Spain: a 5-year card to live and work.
€345VAT included · government fees not included
If you studied in Spain with a stay for studies: move to residence and work without a visa, as an employee or self-employed.
€395VAT included · government fees not included
For the mother, father or guardian of a child from another EU or EEA country or Switzerland. It lasts 5 years.
€395VAT included · government fees not included
For people who had a residence authorisation in the last 2 years that was not renewed.
€445VAT included · government fees not included
For people who have lived in Spain for 2 years and have one or more job contracts adding up to 20 hours a week or more.
€445VAT included · government fees not included
For people with 2 years in Spain who are training: bachillerato, intermediate vocational training, professional certificates or adult education.
€445VAT included · government fees not included
For people who have lived in Spain for 2 years and have close family with residence, or a favourable integration report.
€445VAT included · government fees not included
Tell us about your situation
Before we start, we tell you which procedure fits your situation and what it costs.
Or, if you prefer:
- Message us on WhatsApp
To talk about your case, at any time (24 hours). Please don't send documents on WhatsApp: if we need any, we'll give you a secure way to send them.
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+34 623 82 89 38At any time, 24 hours a day, every day.