About Spain Paperwork
An independent reference, in English, to the administrative procedures foreigners deal with in Spain. It is written from the Spanish law and from the pages of the bodies that run each procedure, and it says where every figure came from and when it was last checked.
Why it exists
Most English-language material about Spanish paperwork is written from other English-language material. The same figures travel from site to site long after the rule behind them has changed: the NIE fee quoted almost everywhere is the fee for a different document, and the version of the immigration regulation most guides describe was replaced in 2025. Government websites, meanwhile, are in Spanish, assume you know their vocabulary, and are often unreachable by the tools people use to research.
Spain Paperwork goes back to the source every time. The procedures are written from the consolidated texts in the Boletín Oficial del Estado and from the ministries and agencies responsible; the office directories were compiled by hand from the official pages of the National Police and the Government Delegations. Where a source does not fix a figure, we do not publish one.
What is here
- 40 immigration procedures, each with its fee, its steps, its documents and its deadlines.
- 18 guides to what comes around them: citizenship, tax residence, healthcare, Social Security, driving licences, documents from abroad.
- Police and Immigration Office directories for every province, with addresses and what each office handles.
- Every immigration fee with its official Spanish wording, and the legal time limit for each decision, including what silence means.
Who is behind it
Spain Paperwork is a small independent publication based in Spain. It is not a law firm, a gestoría or an immigration agency, it does not act for anyone in any procedure, and it is not connected to any Spanish authority. Nor is it connected to any business with a similar name — some private agencies trade under names like ours, and we have no relationship with them. The operator's legal details are in the legal notice, as Spanish law requires.
How it is paid for
By advertising served through Google AdSense, placed between sections and never inside the steps of a procedure. That is the only income. There are no paid placements, no referral fees from lawyers or agencies, and no content written to order. Nothing on the site is for sale, and no advertiser has any say in what it says.
Corrections
Spanish rules change without notice, and we will sometimes be behind. If you find something that no longer matches the official source, tell us through the contact page with the source that shows it. Corrections are made at the source level, so every page that relies on a fact is fixed at once, and the check date moves with it.
How each fact is checked, and the rules we hold ourselves to, are set out in how we verify.