🇪🇸Spain immigration routes

Every route we track for Spain, with the official source behind each one.

10

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

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map to permanent residence

Routes

• Autorización de estancia de larga duración para la realización de estudios superiores o de educación secundaria postobligatoria (long-term stay authorisation for studies) — Hoja 1

  Spain's study route is a long-term stay authorisation — an estancia de larga duración, not a residence permit — for courses lasting more than ninety days.

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• Autorización de residencia temporal por reagrupación familiar (temporary residence by family reunification) — Hoja 8

  Reagrupación familiar is the residence authorisation granted to relatives of a foreign national already resident in Spain, exercised as a right by that resident.

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• Autorización inicial de residencia temporal no lucrativa (Initial Authorization of Non-Profit Temporary Residence) — Hoja 6

  Spain's non-lucrative residence, the residencia temporal no lucrativa, lets a foreign national live in Spain without working.

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• Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta ajena

  Spain's general-regime employed-worker authorisation (Hoja 12) is requested by an employer for a foreign worker over 16 for paid employment lasting more than 90 days and under 5 years, under Organic Law 4/2000 (articles 36, 38, 40) and Royal Decree 1155/2024 (articles 72–79).

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• Digital Nomad Visa (International Telework Visa)

  Spain's international teleworking visa sits under Law 14/2013 on support for entrepreneurs and their internationalisation, and lets people employed or contracted abroad live in Spain while working remotely.

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• Emprendedores (Arts. 68 a 70 Ley 14/2013)

  Spain's entrepreneur residence authorisation, under Articles 68 to 70 of Law 14/2013 on support for entrepreneurs and their internationalisation, is for foreign citizens over 18 who intend to launch, develop or manage an innovative business activity of special economic interest to Spain.

  • No employer sponsor needed
  • Leads to permanent residence

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• Gestión colectiva de contrataciones en origen (Contingente)

  Spain's collective management of contracts at source ("Contingente") lets one or more employers recruit foreign workers who are not present or resident in Spain through collective processing carried out in their country of origin, for either stable (annual-contract) or seasonal jobs.

  • Employer sponsor required

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• Profesionales altamente cualificados (autorización nacional, Art. 71 Ley 14/2013)

  Alongside the EU Blue Card, Spain runs a separate national residence authorisation for highly qualified professionals under Article 71 and 71 bis of Law 14/2013, processed as a fast track by the Large Companies and Strategic Groups Unit (UGE-CE) rather than the general Extranjería offices.

  • Employer sponsor required
  • About 1 months

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• Spain Golden Visa (ending April 2025)

  Residence-by-investment route announced to end on 3 April 2025; residual queries reference historical rules.

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• Tarjeta azul-UE (profesionales altamente cualificados)

  Spain's EU Blue Card (Tarjeta azul-UE) implements Directive 2021/1883 for third-country nationals in highly skilled employment, under Law 14/2013 (articles 61, 62, 71 and 71 bis).

  • Employer sponsor required

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