Spain digital-nomad residence

Make Spain your base while continuing qualifying remote professional activity, with family residence planned alongside your own application.

Key details for your plans

Your outcome
Residence for qualifying remote professional activity
Planning timetable
Plan by application stageConsular application and residence-card stages
Family
Your spouse and children can form part of the family plan. The programme includes adult children as unmarried students who are financially dependent on their parents.
Your continuing plan
Plan residence and renewal around your remote-work activity

A route that fits your plans

Residence for qualifying remote professional activity

The programme supports qualifying remote work, Schengen travel and family residence. It also includes permission for an accompanying spouse to work locally.

Bring your family into the plan

Your spouse and children can form part of the family plan. The programme includes adult children as unmarried students who are financially dependent on their parents.

Know what you will need

Your route evidence

  • Foreign-employer or client relationship evidence
  • Professional and remote-work records
  • Identity and family relationship evidence

Know what happens next

  1. Prepare the documents

    Collect personal, work and family supporting records.

  2. Consular appointment

    Arrange the application appointment and prepare the relevant documents.

  3. Submit the application

    Submit in person through the relevant consular route.

  4. Review and interview

    Complete the consular review and interview arrangements.

  5. Approval and passport collection

    Collect the approved visa and passport.

  6. Arrival and residence card

    Land in Spain, complete fingerprints and obtain the residence card.

Plan for your continuing permission

Your ongoing arrangements

Plan the residence and later renewal arrangements around your qualifying remote-work activity, accommodation and household.

Answers for your planning

Your spouse and children can form part of the family plan. The programme includes adult children as unmarried students who are financially dependent on their parents.

Plan the residence and later renewal arrangements around your qualifying remote-work activity, accommodation and household.

The programme supports qualifying remote work, Schengen travel and family residence. It also includes permission for an accompanying spouse to work locally.

Explore the Schengen destinations for your travel plans. Talk to us about how your residence and travel plans fit together. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

Let us plan your next move

Tell us what you want to achieve, who is moving with you and the timing you have in mind. We will help you understand the route and organise your next practical steps.

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