Hi Sarita, sorry to hear about that job but chin up girl!!!
One thing, you wrote...
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"(Anchovy: hence all my questioning about life in Estepona!! You can save your time emailing me back now.......but gracias de todas formas!)"
Ok, don't take this the wrong way but you need to be more careful when you post on other (and lesser ) boards and then copy and paste your posts in to the ULTIMATE spain multimadrid board
I don't think the little salty wet fishman even reads my board so that parenthesis could have easily been edited out on the repost here.
�Cuidadito cuidad�n!
En fin, YOU WILL MAKE IT TO SPAIN SOONER OR LATER, KEEP THE FAITH!!!
jer.....ACTUALLY......i cut and pasted FROM the ULTIMATE board onto the "other" board. is that bad web-etiquette or something? if so, i certainly didn't mean to offend anyone! i just didn't have the time to write my update post on BOTH boards.
by the way.....i don't think i'm the only person to have ever done that!!
thanks for the vote of confidence.....someday i WILL make it!
not much to update on since we are not moving to spain for the time being, and hence, no residency visa needed, but i did call last week to check on our libro de familia and they told me it was ready. so we'll go pick it up at some point.
actually, my husband's spanish passport expires at the end of jan 04 and we just booked a trip to spain for the holidays so we also have to look into getting his passport renewed if necessary. hopefully we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and get both things done in the same consulate trip.
still looking for employment in spain to be able to make the move. in the meantime, we're trying to save our money and make the move by the end of next year with or without jobs....
I am American, (the USA kind) and in July married my beau of several years, a UK native living here in the US as a legal resident alien. (Green card holder.) We assume his UK citizenship will extend to me at some point.
We want to move to Spain to live three years from now. We are legally incorporated freelancers -- he a graphic designer, me a journalist. We work for publications outside Spain. Can we continue to legally work whilst living there? And as a married couple, will his UK work privileges extend to me, or will we have to undergo seperate and unequal visa applications, etc.? Will I need to emigrate to UK first?
Inquiring minds want to know. It's never to soon to find out! Gracias, Rebekah
Posts: 385 | Location: a pueblo in Palencia, via Pittsburgh USA | Registered: 15 February 2003
I agree with one of the replies below....use an Immigration attorney if you can afford it. They aren't very expensive compared to a U.S. attorney. I am in the process now and I am only into it for about $250.00. And I am doing this from the U.S.A. and the attorney is doing everything via email and internet.
It is a much easier process than what was required for my wife to get her U.S.A. green card.
y desde el club de los humildes rescatar aquellos besos que he tirado sin amar
My husband is UK and I'm American and we are doing just what you want to do. He supposedly successfully applied for his residency card here in Madrid about a month ago; we are waiting for it now. Supposedly takes 40 days. Once we receive it, then I have to return to the States with it to apply for my Visa (my understanding is that an attorney can do it for you if you wish), then I return to Spain and can apply for my residency card. Twisted and convoluted, but it's supposed to work and is better than the situation for Americans not married to EU citizens or Spaniards. We'll see!
I'm going to pick up my reunification visa from the Consulate in San Francisco on Monday, 22 September. I married a Spaniard in San Francisco. Like someone else here her family came for the wedding. I know I need to register in Madrid at the police station when I arrive. Do you not get an ENI until all the paperwork is completed and they give you your residence permit? I have had difficulty in getting a complete story from people I have spoken to at the consulate. I am planning to arrive in Madrid on 4 November...Does this mean I won't be able to work until everything is processed?
Posts: 7 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 17 September 2003
Hey Se�n, as far as I know you are correct, you will not be able to be hired (legally, with a contract) until your paperwork is all done and your residency comes through.
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Do you not get an ENI until all the paperwork is completed
Serge: THere are actually 2 numbers, the NIF and the NIE: one is for citizens( NIF), and the other given to residents (foreigners)
Sean: Correct, you'll not be able to work legally until you get it. You should be leaving San Fran with the Reunification visa which will make the process that much more simple when you arrive in Spain. You'll not get a DNI (Documento Nacional de Identidad) but one very similiar that will be a foreigners residence permit- and will have the same effect as the DNI. When a citizen applies for their DNI- They get a paper with their NIE number on it- and that paper along with other foto ID (usually passport) proves who they are and since they have the number, are able to apply for jobs, etc. What I don't know is if they do the same for residence permits while you wait for them to send the actual card. Hopefully one of the other members who has done just what you are doing will remember and post.
Siguiendo mi propio Camino de Santiago
Posts: 387 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 19 October 2002
but chin up girl!!! 
) boards and then copy and paste your posts in to the ULTIMATE spain multimadrid board 
- rent or buy a cell phone from me for your stay in spain, more info at 
- already have a cell phone, get a spanish SIM card for it at 
if so, i certainly didn't mean to offend anyone! i just didn't have the time to write my update post on BOTH boards. 
