Insights
Insights
Spanish immigration rules change fast and much of what circulates online is out of date. Here we write about what we are actually seeing in files right now.
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6 min
You have received a request for documents: the ten days that decide your file
It is the letter that frightens people most and the one most often ignored until it is too late. A request is not a refusal: it is your file asking you for one specific thing, with a deadline.
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5 min
I missed the extraordinary regularisation. What now?
The window closed on 30 June with no extension and many people have experienced it as a door shutting for good. It is not: the route by which most people in Spain regularise every year is still open.
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7 min
The six reasons applications are refused (and none of them is that you did not deserve it)
After reading a lot of refusal decisions, the pattern is stubborn: it is almost never the substance. It is a badly translated paper, an expired certificate, or a letter nobody answered.
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