How to get a visa to Spain yourself?

Spain is included in the list of Schengen countries, when planning a trip to which the Schengen visa needs to be obtained. How does an independent decoration of a visa in Spain? What documents should be prepared upon receipt of a Spanish visa? Read in this article.

Types of Spanish Visa

Spanish visas vary depending on the cause and duration of the trip. So:

• Spanish visa type "C", or short-term visa. The maximum stay in the territory of the foreign state on it is three months. Especially relevant for citizens who acquire a visa for tourist purposes: inspection of the sights, the visit of relatives, etc.;

In addition to the tourist purpose, the design of a visa to Spain may be associated with the purpose of business or a guest invitation.

• Spanish visa type "D", a long-term or national visa. The maximum stay in the territory of the foreign state for it is five years. Minimum - three months. For its design, a citizen must name one of the following goals: work, study, reunification with close relatives, learning a language;

Helpful advice!

Decide for the purpose of the trip before feeding the documents. It will be necessary to indicate in the application for a Spanish visa.

• If Spain is the main point of stay, then documents for obtaining a visa to Spain should be submitted exclusively to the Spanish Embassy in Moscow;
• Consulate;
• Pony Express Visa Center;

Since Spain belongs to the countries of the Schengen Agreement, then for the visit to Spain, you need to get not Spanish, but.

However, before registration of a visa to Spain, the following features of its operation must be taken into account, namely:

• If Spain is the only country that you want to visit, the statement and all documents for the design of the Spanish visa must be submitted exclusively to the Spanish consulate in Moscow;
• If you receive a visa in the Spanish consulate, but at the same time you plan to travel on other Schengen countries, the first intersected foreign border should be precisely Spain;
• When traveling to Schengen countries with a Spanish visa, it is necessary to be an overwhelming part of the time in Spain;

Example: Schengen visa allows you to stay on the territory of one European state within 90 days in the period of one half of the year. According to the rules, the owner of a Schengen visa obtained in the Spanish embassy should start a trip, and then the overwhelming part of the three-month period (more than 45 days) is located in Spain.

• The maximum period of one time staying in the territory of a foreign state is no more than ninety days from the date of entry;
• Schengen visa can be repeatedly renewed;

For the design of the Spanish visa, you will need the following list of documents:

• Filled questionnaire form for a spanish visa;

The questionnaire needs to be filled in English or Spanish. Sample questionnaire can be downloaded in electronic format below and later print and fill, or fill in the electronic format and later print and slow down the photo.

• Current passage;
• Old abroad document (if available);
• Two photos of three and a half format are four and a half;

Picture Requirements: Clear, Lilo fills eighty percent photos, colored, matte or glossy.

• Medical insurance;

It should be decorated for the period of the received Spanish visa. In addition to the original medical record, before going to the embassy, \u200b\u200bit is necessary to prepare her photocopy.

• Help from the official job, as well as a photocopy of employment record;
• A document confirming the material well-being of the tourist and financial consideration for residence in the territory of the European state;

As a rule, such documents is an extract from the bank account. The photocopy of the account should show the presence of a certain monetary amount on it. By law, while in the territory of some European state, a foreign tourist needs sixty euros per day. So, if it is planned to be abroad for 90 days, then at the design of a visa on its bank account there should be at least 5,400 euros.

• Documents confirming the purchase of air tickets to both ends;
• Documents confirming the purchase or booking of a hotel or hotel where the tourist will live;

If the tourist will live in Spain on a removable apartment, instead of a document confirming the reservation, he must provide a housing lease agreement.

• If a citizen, making up a Spanish visa, has official earnings of less than twenty-five thousand, then the embassy needs to provide documents for the design of the sponsorship;
• If the tourist goes to Spain at the invitation, then it is necessary to provide a document confirming this invitation, as well as a photocopy of a document certifying the person of inviting;
• If the planned trip to Spain is not the first, then the embassy needs to provide documents confirming the success of previous trips (overdue visas, marks in the passport, photocopies of aircraft or railway tickets, photocopies of booked hotels / hotels, rental contracts of residential premises, photocopies of checks performed shopping and so on);

If at least one of their documents, or the information specified in them will be divided, then carry out a visit to Spain at the counterfeitor will not be exactly.

To get a Spanish visa on their own, a citizen needs to strictly follow the following rules for submitting documents into a Spanish visa. So, documents must be filed in the following chronology:

• Filled questionnaire to obtain a visa to Spain;
• Document confirming the hotel's booking or invitation;
  Medical insurance;
• Photocopy of aircraft or railway tickets to both ends;
• Certificate from the official job place;
• Extract from a bank account confirming the financial stability of a citizen;
• Photocopy of a valid foreign passport;
• Photocopy of passport of the Russian Federation;
• Other documents;

In order not to once again attend the documents, check the list of mandatory documents in the Spanish Embassy in Moscow.

If the submitted documents for approving the visit to Spain will be filed in a different order, they will not be taken.

Picture Requirements for Spanish Visa

For a visa to Spain to the embassy should be filed with a photo that meets the following standards :

• Two photos in color format, size 3.5 to 4.5;

When submitting documents to the embassy, \u200b\u200bone photo should be already glued into the completed questionnaire.

• The angles of photography must be sharp, smooth, without roundings;
• The citizen's face must be clearly in the middle, close-up and take no more than seventy interest from the entire area of \u200b\u200bphotography;
• The magnitude of the heads depicted in photography is about three centimeters;
• A citizen's view should be sent strictly to the center of the lens, the eyes wide open;
• Back background photos - light (predominant color will be white);
• Citizen's ears must be open;

It is forbidden to be photographed with earrings, chains and other accessories. If a photo for a Spanish visa makes a girl, then you need to pick up your hair into the tail so that the ears in the picture were visible.

• The photo provided should be fresh, made no more than six months ago;

Application for a visa to Spain

Requirements for the application for a visa to Spain:

• Fill out an application for a Spanish visa in electronic version. After filling out the statement, you need to print and glue a photo to the desired cell, put a personal signature;
• Filling language - English or Spanish;
• If any difficulties arose with the filling of the statement, it is better to print an empty application form and contact the help of the staff of the embassy;

A sample filling in a Spanish visa can be downloaded here.

Passport requirements

When making a visa to Spain, the abandoned passport provides the following standards:

• The end of the term of the overseas passport must be at least three months after returning from Spain;

So, for example, if you plan to make a three-month visit to Spain, then before traveling there, the validity of your passport must expire at least seven months.

• At the time of receipt of a visa to Spain, at least two free pages should remain in a foreign passport;
• When submitting the entire package of documents to the Spanish Embassy in Moscow, in addition to originals, you need to provide photocopies of all pages of a foreign passport (even empty pages);

The same needs to be done with the general passport.

If you have an old passport, before going to the embassy you need to make photocopies of all his pages.

• Those pages of passports that provide personal data of a citizen (surname, name, patronymic, passport series, and room, place of registration, marital status, etc.), you need to operate twice and in the embassy to provide two copies;
• Photocopies of passport pages must be made on A4 sheet sheet. At the same time, four passport photos should fit on each sheet;

Requirements for medical insurance

• The decorated insurance for a Spanish visa should be worth not less than thirty thousand euros, which should end at least in half a year after returning from Spain;

The cost of insurance is calculated by day. The cost of insurance of one day is one euro.

• Purchase insurance for a visa to Spain can be in any convenient insurance company or via the Internet;
• When making insurance, you will need to provide the following documents: photocopy and the original medical policy, filling out an application for an insurance policy for stay in Spain;

When making a visa to Spain, you need to provide a document confirming the presence of a temporary stay during a visit to Spain. How to do it?

• Book a place in a hotel or hotel. In the embassy, \u200b\u200bprovide a printed copy of the page with the approved armor, where the number and details of the booking is specified;

If you are afraid that the visa to Spain will not be approved at the planned time, then you should not pay a booked place. The embassy is enough to provide unpaid reservation.

• If you decide to rent an apartment from someone from the locals, then in the embassy it is necessary to provide a housing lease agreement;
• If you are going to Spain at the invitation, then the embassy needs to provide a notarized photocopy of invitations;
• If you are traveling to Spain at the invitation of close relatives, then you need to bring a document confirming your related relationship with the relative living in Spain;

Nuances on tickets

• If you are traveling to Spain an airline transportation, then in the embassy you need to submit purchased tickets;
• If you are traveling to Spain on a personal car, you need to provide a technical passport, driver's license, as well as international insurance;

Help from work

• Help from the official place of work should be made on a special form. The certificate should include the following information: the full name of the organization, held by the position, work experience, the size of the official wage;

It is important

The certificate should indicate that the employee goes on vacation with the preservation of the workplace. Those. After arriving from Spain, it will not be obliged to be unemployed.

• The certificate must sign a direct employer of a citizen who draws a visa to Spain;
• If a citizen is a private entrepreneur, then in addition to the certificate, in which the position is prescribed, the name of the organization and the level of earnings, documents confirming the registration of a private enterprise, as well as a photocopy of the taxpayer identification number, must be attached;

• When submitting documents to a Spanish visa in Moscow, the deadline takes up four to six working days;

In the "hot" seasons (New Year holidays and summer holidays), registration in the Moscow embassy can be delayed up to ten working days.

• The maximum period of registration of a visa to Spain can make ninety days;

The duration of consideration of the application depends on many factors: the primary or secondary design of the visa, the treatment season, the package of submitted documents, etc.

• When submitting documents to the embassy of other cities (Peter, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, etc.) to a standard period (4-6 days) are added two more days (to send documents to the central operator);
• Urgent registration of a visa to Spain (dead relatives, emergency treatment, etc.) is possible within three working days;

For an additional charge, an urgent visa can also be issued for the main service collection in twenty-four hours.

about the author

Alexander Eremeev

The experience of the lawyer has since 2005. He graduated from the Moscow State Open University with a Red Diploma. Private practice, specialization - migration and civil law.