Change residence conditions in Spain

Translate documents

We have learned from the National Police that the conditions for obtaining the Spanish residence have been tightened. The Spanish residence is a certificate that you apply for when you settle in Spain. Settling in Spain means that you have deregistered elsewhere and that Spain becomes your new country of residence. So you move your personal administrative seat to Spain.

You will then be known as a resident of Spain. Your new town hall in relation to the Spanish administration will become the town hall of your area of residence and the consulate will become the "town hall" of your Belgian administration (or Dutch, French, ... depending on your nationality).

Once you have lived in Spain longer than 183 days + 1 day, you will be considered as tax resident. Usually, fiscal residence and legal residence (your country of residence is Spain) go hand in hand.

Extension of the documents to be submitted

From now on, the Spanish administrative units will no longer accept documents if they are not in Spanish. Even if they are European documents, they must be translated into Spanish if they are not available in Spanish at origin.

A translation is only valid if it is done by a sworn translator. Your own translation, even if your Spanish is very good, will not be accepted. For example, the documents of your pension, the S1, the deregistration in your country of residence, etc. Official documents that have not been translated into Spanish must be translated from now on.

Segurantis can always help you translate these documents as they work with several accredited translator-interpreters.