Your Spanish long-stay visa file is together, whether it is for the non-lucrative, digital nomad, student, work or another route. Before you submit it, have Maxime and Aurelio read it line by line and flag what gets U.S. files sent back, while you can still fix it.
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Read by Maxime Roseau and Aurelio Maurici, the co-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow. A sample of what comes back
Your visa file review
Documents with a clock or a rule
Sample only. The rules shown are the Washington consulate's, from our pre-departure checklist. Color coded line by line, back within 72 hours.
Two files can look the same and not be. It is hard to see the gap in your own file, because you know what you meant it to say.
At the Washington consulate, the visa fees paid to BLS are not refunded if the application fails. See the fees
Your whole file, read against your consulate's list, then handed back color coded with a fix beside every flag.
We read your whole file against your consulate's own list and flag what would hold up or turn down a U.S. application.
Green for ready, yellow for an adjustment, red for wrong or missing. You fix what matters first.
For every flag, what to change, add or redo, down to which document needs a sworn translation and how to present your proof of funds.
Proof of funds, the affidavit, consistency across documents. Often right on paper, but presented in a way that raises a question.
Your file is read by Maxime Roseau and Aurelio Maurici, the co-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow.
A marked-up review you work from, instead of a phone call you half remember. Your file, your fixes, on the page.
Every flag comes with the exact change to make.
FBI check
Issued by the FBI 7 months before your planned submission date.
Order a new check, so it is issued within the 6 months before you submit. At the Washington consulate the clock runs from the date the FBI issued it, not from the apostille or the translation. The documents that expire
Fill in the short form below: your visa route, your consulate and when you plan to submit.
We reply by email with how to pay and send your documents securely.
Every issue, color coded, with the fix beside it, in writing, within 72 hours of receiving your file.
Eight areas, each checked against your consulate's list and the guide that explains it.
That the route fits your plans. The non-lucrative visa rules out all work, remote work included, which sends remote workers to the telework visa.
Non-lucrative or teleworkThe amount for your route and the form it takes: for a non-lucrative file at Washington, 3 months of statements plus a certificate from each bank.
What the consulate asks forWashington takes only a policy from an insurer authorized in Spain, with no copay, deductible or coverage limit. Travel insurance and an insurance card do not pass.
Insurance the consulate acceptsIssued within the 6 months before you submit at Washington, with the federal apostille on the FBI signature, not on a notary's.
The FBI check, step by stepWhich documents need an official or sworn Spanish translation and which do not: at Washington, your bank statements go in without one.
Translation rulesSigned by a physician, not a nurse practitioner, and issued within the 90 days before you submit at Washington.
The documents that expireNames, dates, addresses and amounts that must match from one document to the next, and the papers that back your affidavit.
The employer letterEach Spanish consulate in the U.S. covers its own states and publishes its own list. Your file is checked against yours.
Find your consulateA refusal is notified in writing, with the grounds, and the grounds name the requirement the file failed. Finding the document, the date or the wording in your file that failed it is the part we work on: we read the refused file next to the letter and flag what to change.
Nobody can promise the outcome of a new application or an appeal. What we can do is make sure the second file does not repeat the first. If you plan to appeal, mind the clock: at the Washington consulate, 1 month for an appeal for reconsideration and 2 months for the High Court of Justice of Madrid, as the non-lucrative visa guide explains. An appeal is a legal step, and a lawyer is the right person for it.
Same review, same $199 per person. Include the refusal letter when you send your documents.
Your file is read by the co-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow.
Co-founder, immigration and relocation
Over the years his work became specialized in guiding international residents through European immigration systems and the administrative dependencies that follow them: the sequence in which documents have to be issued, what a consulate reads beyond the official checklist, and what to do when a file is delayed or refused.
Read Maxime's guidesCo-founder, legal, tax and cross-border finance
He focuses on the points where Spanish administrative logic diverges from what Americans expect: the weight of sequencing, documentary consistency, and how banks, the Agencia Tributaria and the Seguridad Social interpret rules operationally.
Read Aurelio's guidesTell us about your file and we reply by email with how to pay and send your documents.
Maxime Roseau and Aurelio MauriciCo-founders of EasyFranceNow and EasySpainNow Visa dossier review
$199per person
This is practical guidance, not legal or immigration advice, and it does not guarantee a consulate's decision.
Start with the request form on this page. We reply by email with how to pay and send your documents securely. Send the file as you would hand it to the consulate, as PDFs or clear scans: the forms, proof of funds, insurance policy, FBI check with its apostille and translation, and the medical certificate.
Within 72 hours of receiving your documents.
A written, color coded pass over your whole file: green for what is ready, yellow for what needs an adjustment, red for what is wrong or missing, with the fix beside each flag.
Yes. Send what you have and we flag what is missing too. If you have not started, the free guides and the Spain Navigator put the steps in order; come back for the review once the file is built.
Give the number of people in the request form. Each family member files most of the same documents as the main applicant, and each person's FBI check and medical certificate runs on its own clock, as the pre-departure checklist explains, so each file is read and the price is $199 per person.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. No one can guarantee a consulate's decision. The review is there so the file you submit has fewer problems in it.
Your documents are personal data. Our privacy policy sets out how we handle the personal data you send us and your rights over it. If anything in it is unclear, ask us before you send your file.
No. It is practical guidance on how your file is put together, pointing you to the official pages to confirm. It does not replace an immigration lawyer, and when your situation needs one, we say so.
The review is for people who file themselves and want a second reader first. To plan the whole move in order, see the Spain Navigator. For anything else, write to us.
The Washington consulate only admits complete applications and judges each dated document against the day you submit, as our pre-departure checklist explains. Have your file read line by line while you can still fix it.
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