Immigration lawyers in Valencia for your move to Spain

Residence permits, Spanish nationality, family reunification, social security registration and opening a bank account: Delaguía y Luzón guides you through every step of settling in Spain, from your first immigration file to the banking side of your new life here.

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Direct electronic filing for your immigration and nationality files

Delaguía y Luzón has an important advantage when preparing files since we are one of the few law firms in Spain that has signed the collaboration agreement between the Bar Association and the Government of Spain for the electronic processing of immigration and nationality files.

Flags of the EU member states outside a European institution building, a reminder that non-EU nationals moving to Spain follow their own residency rules

Moving legally, and staying legally

Spain is the most popular destination in Europe for British expats, international remote workers and non-EU nationals looking for a base inside the Eurozone. But moving legally, and staying legally, takes more than booking a flight and signing a lease.

Every residency route comes with its own eligibility conditions, document requirements, filing deadlines and tax consequences — and the route you choose at the start determines how you are taxed, whether your family can join you, and how quickly you reach permanent residency. Choosing the wrong one is expensive to undo.

Young family strolling through Valencia's old town, the settled life a well-chosen residency route leads to

Choosing the right residency route

We assess your eligibility across every route before you file, rather than starting from the one you have already heard of. Income thresholds, qualifying criteria and processing times are reviewed against your actual circumstances, and we tell you plainly when a route you were counting on will not work.

Whichever route you take, all of them lead to permanent residency after five continuous years.

Digital Nomad Visa — for remote workers employed or contracted outside Spain
Non-Lucrative Visa — for retirees and those living on passive income

Startup Visa — for founders building an innovative business in Spain
Work and residence permits, for employees and the companies hiring them
Family reunification, so your spouse and children join you lawfully
Spanish nationality by residence, once you qualify

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What our immigration service includes

One team handles the file end to end. You are not passed between a lawyer, a gestor and a translator, and you do not lose a month because nobody booked an appointment.

Initial consultation and eligibility assessment across every residency route
Document preparation, sworn translations and FCDO Apostille requirements
Application drafting and submission at the consulate, the UGE or the Oficina de Extranjería

NIE and TIE management, including cita previa appointments
Empadronamiento registration at the local Ayuntamiento
Beckham Law election, where you qualify and it works in your favour
Renewal management, long-term residency and employer compliance

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Electronic filing, and why it matters

In practice, your application is filed electronically instead of waiting on an in-person appointment slot, and we receive and act on official notifications directly. Where most delays in Spanish immigration come from missed appointments and unanswered requests for further information, that is the difference between a file that moves and a file that stalls.

Remote worker with a laptop on a sea-view terrace in Spain, a move where tax residency and the Beckham Law need planning from day one

Getting the tax question right from the start

Residency and tax are decided together, not one after the other. Spending more than 183 days in Spain generally makes you tax resident here, which changes how your worldwide income, your pension and your assets abroad are treated — and some elections, such as the impatriate regime, can only be made inside a short window after you arrive.

Because our immigration, tax and accounting teams sit in the same firm, we look at both sides before you file rather than after you have committed to a route.