• You can get a work permit provided that you find a job offer that is inside the Spanish shortage occupation list. In that case, it will be your future employer who initiates the legal procedure while you remain in your origin country. 
• Find a job offer as a highly qualified professional, which means that the position pays more than 40.000€ per year and is as a manager. 
• Open your own company with the entrepreneur visa, if your project is really innovative and will create employment in the country. 

Once you have lived in Spain with your residence permit for 5 consecutive years, without leaving the country for too long, you will be allowed to get the permanent residency easily. This physical card must be renewed every 5 years, but the permit’s duration is indefinite. Nevertheless, you must take into consideration that the years lived under the student visa will count half for the permanent residency, and won’t count for Spanish citizenship.

If you would like to get the Spanish nationality and have the same rights as any other Spanish citizen, it is required from you to have stayed in the country for 10 years, interruptedly. Nevertheless, there are a few exemptions. If you are from Portugal, Philippines, Andorra, Equatorial Guinea or any country in Latin America, you can easily get the Spanish citizenship after two years in Spain. Furthermore, there are other options, like citizenship by marriage, that just requires you to be in Spain for one year.

Yes. On one hand, many permits in Spain like the golden visa or the non-lucrative residency allow you do a joint application. This means that you can get a work and residence permit both for you and your family, just with your application. But, on the other hand, you can also opt for the process called family reunification, in which you can bring your family to Spain provided that you already live in Spain legally. 

If you have been living in Spain illegally for 3 years, you can regularize your situation under the procedure called arraigo social. Furthermore, if you have just been in Spain for 2 years but you worked during the last 6 months, the arraigo laboral will be the right procedure for you. If you need help with this, just send us an email and our specialized immigration lawyers will be glad to help you out.