You have a date. A consulate appointment, a wedding, a school year, a degree to recognize. Your birth certificate, your FBI check and your diplomas have to clear two governments before then: the U.S. office that apostilles them, and the Spanish office that reads them. We run that chain for you, from wherever you are.
Run by a vetted U.S. partner, with Maxime and Aurelio checking the Spanish side Your document list
One form. Each document routed to the right office, apostilled, translated where the procedure asks for it, and sent back to you.
Birth and marriage certificates get their apostille from the Secretary of State of the state that issued them, as the pre-move checklist explains. The state matters: for school records, the Education Office rejects an apostille from a state other than the issuing one (diploma guide). We route each record to its own state, follow it and return it to you.
The FBI Identity History Summary is apostilled by the U.S. Department of State's Office of Authentications, and the apostille has to certify the FBI official's signature. The Washington consulate refuses a check whose apostille certifies a notary instead, and counts its 6 months from the day the FBI issued it. The pre-move checklist sets out the sequence.
Each office names its translators. For a degree, a sworn translator (traductor jurado) appointed by Spain's Foreign Ministry or an official translator in an EU country, covering the apostille too (degree guide). For nationality, a translation made or checked at a Spanish consulate, or by a sworn translator-interpreter appointed by the Foreign Ministry (nationality guide). For the FBI check, the Washington consulate accepts an official or sworn translation (pre-move checklist). We match the translator to the office.
Some papers start with your signature before a notary: the affidavit the Washington consulate asks for with a non-lucrative visa, or a power of attorney that expressly authorizes someone to file your NIE request. Notarizing the wrong paper costs you too: the degree ministry refuses a notarized true copy of a diploma, and the consulate refuses an FBI check whose apostille certifies a notary. We tell you which is which before anything is signed.
No certified copy of your birth or marriage certificate in the drawer? We request one from the issuing office. School and university records follow their own chain: a school official or the university Registrar signs before a notary, then the Secretary of State of that state adds the apostille, as the diploma guide and the degree guide describe.
Each one comes with its own document list. These are the ones our guides cover.
At the Washington consulate, the non-lucrative visa file asks adults for an FBI check issued within the 6 months before you submit, apostilled and translated into Spanish, and family members add the civil records that prove the relationship. See the non-lucrative visa guide and the pre-move checklist.
Already married? A spouse who comes on your visa proves the marriage with the certificate, apostilled and officially translated, as the non-lucrative visa guide explains. Planning to marry in Spain? Send us the document list you were given, and we price what is on it.
The school enrollment guide has you gather the child's passport, birth certificate and recent school reports, and joining bachillerato puts U.S. school records through an apostille from the issuing state and an official translation. Some town halls, Alicante for one, want a sworn Spanish translation of foreign official documents for the padrón.
A U.S. high school diploma goes to homologation with at least 3 years of transcripts signed before a notary, apostilled by the school's state and sworn-translated. A college degree takes a notary on the Registrar's signature, the state's apostille, and a sworn translation that covers the apostille.
The file asks for your birth certificate and a criminal record certificate covering the whole United States, not one state, both legalized and translated. A certificate that shows no validity date lasts 6 months from issue, so it is the last thing you order. The details are in the nationality guide.
Family reunification asks for the civil records that prove the relationship, apostilled and translated into Spanish by a sworn translator, and an adult relative adds a criminal record certificate at the consulate. The whole file is in the family reunification guide.
A U.S. partner on the paperwork. Maxime and Aurelio on what Spain accepts.
Execution runs through a vetted U.S. notary and apostille firm we work with. It handles notarization, state and federal apostilles and certified copy requests, and reads your scans before anything goes in an envelope.
We are the part that tells you what to order in the first place. Maxime works on long-stay visa files, the residence card that follows arrival and the order in which documents have to be issued. Aurelio works on banking, tax, healthcare and the documentary standards institutions apply in practice rather than in theory.
Your quote covers the U.S. execution and our coordination on the Spanish side, in one quote, with one point of contact. You deal with us from the form to the delivery.
One form, one quote, one point of contact.
One form: your documents, the procedure they are for, the states that issued them and your deadline.
Your list is checked against what your procedure asks for, then quoted per document.
Apostilles, notarizations and translations handled, and the finished documents sent to you.
Quoted per document
Tell us what you hold and what you are filing. The quote comes with a note on anything in your list your procedure does not ask for.
A few details, and we reply by email with a price for each document.
Thanks, your request is in. We reply by email with your quote.
It is quoted per document, because one state birth certificate and a federal apostille on a deadline are different jobs. Send the form and you get a price for each document before any work begins. Requesting the quote costs nothing, and a family file with several documents gets one quote for the whole list.
It depends on the issuing state, the federal workload and shipping, so we give you dates once we have read your list. Plan around the dated documents first: at the Washington consulate, the FBI check must be issued within the 6 months before you submit, and the apostille and the translation come out of that window, as the pre-move checklist explains.
We tell you after reading your list, because it depends on the document and on the state that issued it. One case is settled: U.S. embassies and consulates abroad do not take fingerprints, so from Spain the FBI check means a fingerprint card sent by mail, as the pre-move checklist sets out.
It depends on the office that reads the file. For a degree, the ministry wants a sworn translator appointed by Spain's Foreign Ministry or an official translator in an EU country (degree recognition guide). For nationality, translations are made or checked at a Spanish consulate, or made by a sworn translator-interpreter appointed by the Foreign Ministry (nationality guide). We match the translator to the office.
Yes, on request, and it is quoted like any other document. Tell us which Spanish office asked for it and what it asked for, and we price the translation that office wants. Whether you can drive on a U.S. license in Spain is a separate question, and this page does not answer it.
Then that is what you will hear. A single document with months of runway is a job you can run yourself, and the pre-move checklist shows the order. We would rather say so than charge you for stamping an envelope.
A vetted U.S. notary and apostille firm we work with runs the U.S. side. Maxime and Aurelio stay on the Spanish side: what your consulate, registry or ministry asks for, and in what order. One quote covers both, and you deal with one point of contact from the form to the delivery.
Processing times depend on the issuing state, federal workload and shipping. This is document preparation and coordination, not legal or immigration advice.