Real help moving to Spain, from the team behind EasyFranceNow

We are Maxime and Aurelio, the two founders of EasyFranceNow. We built EasySpainNow to help Americans and Britons get past the part of moving to Spain that nobody warns you about: the gap between the official process and the one that actually works.

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Portrait of Maxime Roseau — Co-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow
Visas
Housing
Banking
Health
Tax
Admin

Portrait of Aurelio Maurici — Co-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow
Visas
Housing
Banking
Health
Tax
Admin

What is EasySpainNow?

EasySpainNow is an English-language website for Americans and Britons moving to Spain. Its guides explain the move step by step, from the visa and the residence card to taxes, banking, housing, healthcare, schools and daily life, with separate guides for U.S. and UK citizens where the rules differ.

Each guide names its author, links to the official pages it relies on, such as the BOE (the official gazette of Spain), the Spanish ministries, the Agencia Tributaria, the IRS and GOV.UK, and shows the day it was last verified. The guides are written by the two co-founders, Maxime Roseau on visas and immigration and Aurelio Maurici on tax and cross-border finance, and by named writers on the other topics.

Reading is free and needs no account. EasySpainNow earns from partner placements, always labeled as partners, and from affiliate links; a partner never changes what a page says. EasySpainNow is published by TWENTY M SAS, a French company based in Paris that also publishes EasyFranceNow.

How we write and verify

What is the Spain Navigator?

The Spain Navigator is a free web app from EasySpainNow that puts the steps of a move to Spain in order, adapted to the answers you give it: from the first question to residency, with your own dates and deadlines. It is free: no card, no trial and nothing locked. You open an account with your email address and log in on any device with a 6-digit code.

At setup you choose the country you are leaving: the United States, the United Kingdom or another country. The app then shows the visa routes that may fit you, works out your own numbers (proof of funds for the visa, take-home pay in Spain, the taxes you would owe, rent and the cost of the move) and links every rule to the official page it comes from, with the day it was last read. What you type stays in your own browser, not on our servers.

What the Spain Navigator is not

It is not a law firm and gives no legal, immigration or tax advice. It files, submits and books nothing for you: you make each application yourself, and the letters and forms it drafts are yours to use for your own procedures. When a step needs a lawyer, a gestor or a tax advisor, it says so.

About the Spain Navigator

You did everything right and still got stuck

Americans and Britons who move to Spain are smart and organized. You read the articles, you book the appointments, you bring every document the official website asks for.

Then the bank will not open your account, the immigration office wants a paper nobody mentioned, and the landlord never replies. That does not mean you did anything wrong.

The official process and the real process are two different things. Closing that gap is the whole reason we exist.

The people behind it

Real names and real photos, because you should know who is telling you what to do with your visa, your money and your paperwork.

Maxime Roseau

Co-founder, immigration and relocation

Maxime Roseau is a French entrepreneur and co-founder of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow. His work covers immigration and residency procedures for U.S. citizens moving to Europe: long-stay visa applications, the residence card that follows arrival, appointment systems, permit renewals and changes of status, and the operational side of relocation that decides whether a move settles smoothly or wobbles in the first months.

Spanish visas and residence permits
TIE and residence renewals
Consulate procedures
Appointment systems

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Aurelio Maurici

Co-founder, legal, tax and cross-border finance

Aurelio Maurici is the co-founder of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow and the author behind the tax guidance for U.S. and UK nationals in Europe.

US taxes abroad
Spanish taxes for residents
FATCA and cross-border reporting
Inheritance and cross-border finance

Read Aurelio's articles

Our writers

Our writers cover the rest of the guides alongside the founders, each on the topics of their training.

Emilia Perez

Writer, healthcare, education and daily life

Emilia Perez writes the guides on healthcare, schools and everyday life in Spain for Americans and Britons settling in. Her work covers the practical questions that fill the first months: registering with the public health system and choosing private cover, the health card, enrolling children in school and childcare, and the routines that decide whether a new country starts to feel like home.

Spanish public healthcare
Schools and childcare
Daily life in Spain
First weeks in Spain

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Charles Bortoli

Writer, banking, housing, work and driving

Charles Bortoli writes the guides on the money and contract side of a move to Spain: bank accounts, renting a home, working or setting up a business, and driving. He covers what the paperwork asks for in practice: the documents a landlord or bank expects, how a deposit and a lease work, how an employee or an autónomo is set up, and how a foreign licence is exchanged.

Spanish bank accounts
Renting in Spain
Working and self-employment in Spain
Driving licences

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Patricia Cunes

Writer, administration, citizenship and integration

Patricia Cunes writes the guides on Spanish paperwork and the long road to settling for good: appointments with the administration, files that stall, residence renewals, the language and civic exams, and Spanish nationality. Her work follows the steps in the order they have to happen, because in Spain the order often decides whether a file moves.

Spanish administration
Residence renewals
Spanish nationality
Document legalisation

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Steve McKendry

Writer, work, business and driving

Steve McKendry writes the guides on working, building a business and driving in Spain for Americans and Britons who are moving. His work covers the questions that come once the visa is settled: employment contracts and the Seguridad Social, setting up as an autónomo or a company, working remotely for a foreign employer, and the road side of the move: exchanging a foreign driving licence, registering a car and the rules that apply on arrival.

Working in Spain
Autónomo and company set-up
Remote work for foreign employers
Driving licences and vehicles

Read Steve's articles

The EasyFranceNow method, applied to Spain

We built EasyFranceNow on one rule: start from the official source, then write down the part the official page leaves out. EasySpainNow applies the same rule to Spain. Every rule links to the Spanish or U.S. page it comes from, and every article says when it was last checked. It is the foundation for everything we publish.

A few things we check for you:

Your consulate, not a generic list

Consular requirements differ from one consulate to the next, so we name the one we read and tell you to read yours.

The move checklist

The one-month card deadline

The foreigner identity card has to be requested within one month of entry. It is a month, not 30 days, and the order of the first steps decides whether you make it.

Your first month

Two tax systems, one calendar

The FBAR sees your Spanish accounts and Modelo 720 sees your U.S. ones. We put both deadlines in the same place.

Preparing your finances

The mistakes that cost the most

The errors Americans make in their first year, from the missed registration to the unreported account, with the fix for each.

The common mistakes

People we have helped

Google

In fact, the staff at TLScontact commented on how complete and detailed our application was when we submitted it.

Courtenay WolfeStudent visa application for a son

Google review of EasyFranceNow, July 2026

I cannot recommend EasyFranceNow highly enough! We worked with Maxime on my son’s French long-stay student visa application, and the service was outstanding from beginning to end. Our case involved numerous questions regarding the correct visa category, supporting documentation, parental authority, insurance, and other application requirements. Maxime was incredibly knowledgeable, patient, and responsive, taking the time to answer every question thoroughly and ensuring we understood each step of the process. The final application was exceptionally comprehensive, well organized, and meticulously prepared. In fact, the staff at TLScontact commented on how complete and detailed our application was when we submitted it.

Google

After a month of searching with no responses and agencies that didn't accept American incomes, I engaged Maxime. Within two weeks I moved into my apartment with a landlord who's very responsive. He was available within minutes and an awesome support through the whole ordeal.

Google review of EasyFranceNow, July 2026

Google

Having gotten a request for additional information from CPAM (Carte Vitale registration) I was stunned that the Notaire I had worked with an a different project wouldn't even give me "the time of day". I went online and found the EasyFranceNow site and after asking a few questions on their process and completion rates, I signed up. They asked questions, pulled materials from me that were needed to complete the work ... and the items I was required to submit were provided by EasyFranceNow well within the timeframe they predicted! Not the cheapest ... but by my estimation the BEST! I'd use them again in a heartbeat!

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Google review of EasyFranceNow, August 2026

Google

I just needed help with applying for a long-stay visa and Maxime gave me solid advice and a clear list of documents I needed to get. If you need some guidance with the French immigration process I’d recommend these guys everytime.

Google review of EasyFranceNow, July 2026

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Our editorial standards

We cite the source. Rules, thresholds and deadlines come from official Spanish, U.S. and U.K. government material, and every article lists the pages it was checked against, with the date.
We date everything. Every article shows when it was published, updated and last verified.
We rewrite on change. When a procedure changes we rewrite the article, and when something that used to work stops working, we say so.
We fix errors in the open. Found one? Tell us. We correct it and note what changed.
We are honest about limits. When you need a lawyer, a gestor or a tax advisor, we say so.

How we write and verify

Before you take our advice

You should know exactly what we are, what we are not, and where our money comes from.

We are

The team behind EasyFranceNow
A practical blog and a step-by-step app
A named author on every article

We are not

Lawyers
Immigration attorneys
Tax advisors

We do not give legal, immigration or tax advice, and we do not pretend to. When your situation needs a licensed professional, we say so. Our job is to get you ready, so you do not waste your time or theirs.

How we make money

The articles are free and stay free. No paywall, no registration to read.
The Spain Navigator is free too, with an email account so you can log in on any device. We never sell or rent your email address.
Some outbound links are affiliate links. If you use them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. See our affiliate disclosure.
Partners pay for labeled placements. A partner can appear on a category page, in an article or in the app, always marked as a partner. A commercial relationship never changes what a page says, the sources it cites or what it recommends.

If you want a hand

Everything we know is free, on the site, in the newsletter and in the app. When you want more than articles, the Spain Navigator does the ordering for you.

Spain Navigator

Do it yourself, the smart way. The free app that puts every step of your move to Spain in order, from visa to settling in.

Free, with an email account.

Learn about the Spain Navigator

Start with the free blog

Sourced, dated articles on visas, banking, taxes and settling in, each checked against the official pages it cites.

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Questions readers ask

How can you help me move to Spain?

Start with the free blog and the newsletter. When you want more, the free Spain Navigator turns the articles into a plan built around your situation, in the order the move happens.

Why a Spain site from the team behind EasyFranceNow?

Because the method travels, not the rules. Every Spanish article is written from Spanish, U.S. and U.K. official sources, and lists the pages it was checked against with the date.

Are you lawyers or tax advisors?

No. We do not give legal, immigration or tax advice. When you need a licensed professional, we say so and point you to one. Our job is to get you to that appointment prepared.

How do you make money?

The articles and the Spain Navigator are free. We earn from partner placements, always labeled, and from affiliate commissions on some outbound links, at no extra cost to you. A commercial relationship never changes what an article or the app says, and we never sell or rent your email address.

I don't speak Spanish. Can you still help?

Yes. Everything we publish is in English, and the articles gloss every Spanish administrative term the first time it appears.

Who we are legally

EasySpainNow is published by TWENTY M SAS, SIREN 990370603, registered in France. Registered office: 229 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris, France. Editorial contact: our contact page.

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