Posted by Chris Showers on November 18th, 2009.
Last month I picked up my new foreigner residency card at the police station so that I could be “legal” for another year in Spain. This was the first time I have actually had to renew my card from within Spain and I must say that the process, while extremely interesting to me as a foreigner (I’d never seen anything quite like it in my life), was not exactly what I would consider “seamless.”
To give you an idea of what I had to do to get my residency card renewed here in Spain, I’m going to break the process down into steps. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on July 30th, 2008.
According to this article in El País, Spain has made some pretty radical changes to its immigration policy over the last month or so. These changes are in response to the “economic crisis” situation that Spain finds itself in and include things such as giving incentives to legal immigrants who are unemployed to go back to their home country, toughening family reunification criteria, and increasing the amount of time illegals can be held under arrest. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on July 17th, 2008.
One good resource that all foreigners living in Spain should know about is the Spanish Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración’s website. The website actually has a special “foreigner’s section” located at http://extranjeros.mtas.es/ which provides a wealth of information about the documents required for getting work permits for Spain, residency permits for Spain, NIE numbers, etc. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on June 2nd, 2008.
The next step in preparing for the scholarship that I have been awarded is to apply for a Student Visa to go to Spain. I have studied abroad in Spain before so this is actually the second time that I have had to apply for a Student Visa. I’d like to outline the general process for applying for a visa to study abroad in Spain in this post. Please remember that this information is just a guide which was written in June of 2008 – always check with your local consulate for updated information before applying for a visa.
Find a Spanish Consulate in the USA:
In most cases, you must apply for a visa in person at the appropriate Spanish Consulate. There are several Consulate Generals of Spain throughout the USA. Each consulate has a different jurisdiction and it is your responsibility to get to the one that serves your state. You can use this webpage (in Spanish) to look up the consulate in your jurisdiction. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on May 11th, 2008.
In recent years immigrants have been arriving to Spain in swarms looking for better lives. They have mainly come from places like Africa, Romania, Bulgaria, and some South American countries like Colombia. Immigration, of course, is something that Spain hasn’t really had to deal with much before and the topic of immigration nowadays is quite “hot” in the country. In fact, Spaniards are now finding themselves faced with the question of what to do with immigrants arriving to Spain. But those immigrants who are just arriving are not the only worry of Spaniards; according to this recent article in El País, the future of the sons and daughters of new immigrants is also uncertain. Continue reading this post…
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