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Kimac
Joined 2016
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Difficulty of a DIY prof or pensioners visa

8 years ago

Plenty of threads about visas, but here's a more focused question:

If properly prepared in terms of paperwork, how difficult should it be to work ones way through the visa process with B1 Spanish?

B1, meaning low-intermediate: able to take care of common transactions easily; also to get in over ones head by making locals think you're more fluent than you really are.

visaangels in Cuenca makes the point that for simple cases most of the job is just putting the right forms on the right counter. A lot of donde esta oughta suffice for that. So, get a facilitator or lawyer if you need your hand held or have a flakey case, but otherwise save your $.

Step-by-step instructions for doing the prof visa through Cuenca/Azoques was in CHL recently and it looked quite straightforward, and a pensioners visa isn't much different from a prof (if anything, simpler).

Any comments or recent first hand experience?

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