{"id":1105,"date":"2017-08-25T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:10:31","slug":"how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">7\/9\/2019<\/span>:<\/strong> This post is out-of-date.\u00a0 Please see the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/spain-non-lucrative-visa-renewal-2019\/\">update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p>Please note cagey blog title wording. A title like <em>Spain Visa Renewal Steps<\/em> or <em>How to Renew Your Spain Visa<\/em> would suggest an offering of authoritative advice on how to renew your Spain student visa, or au pair visa, or entrepreneur visa, or whatever the hey other type of visa you bagged to permit life-over-the-long-haul on the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Authoritative visa advice, in <em>this<\/em> blog?! Ha ha ha ha!<\/p>\n<p>I can confidently tell you what I did to renew <em>my<\/em> non-lucrative residence visa. (Live in Spain = yes. Work permit = no.) I have no idea if my saga will help you renew your visa, or get you goose-stepped in leg irons to the Pyrenees frontier. Caveat emptor.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this entry will aspire to matter-of-fact tedium, and shall be mercifully Vaudeville hooked to a quiet .pdf of its own, linked below.<\/p>\n<p>Two cautionary notes first:<\/p>\n<p>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#x2666;<\/span>) \u00a0With one to-be-described exception, I completed all visa renewal steps in Spanish: plugged Spanish search terms into Google, read Spanish instructions on Spanish government web sites, conversed in Spanish at Spanish bureaucracies. <em>\u00bfNo lo hablas bien?<\/em> Plan on renewing your visa with professional help. I retain fond memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spainwide.com\/\">Spainwide<\/a>, which helped me in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#x2666;<\/span>) Visa-related chores are tough, tedious, devourers of time and patience.<\/p>\n<p>Treat yourself to a Google StreetView look at the Avenida de los <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.es\/maps\/place\/Av.+de+los+Poblados,+51,+28047+Madrid\/@40.3821677,-3.7577561,17z\/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0xd41883a38d1bb7f:0x63ba1de49c83c198!2sAv.+de+los+Poblados,+51,+28047+Madrid!3b1!8m2!3d40.38283!4d-3.7575617!3m4!1s0xd41883a38d1bb7f:0x63ba1de49c83c198!8m2!3d40.38283!4d-3.7575617\">Poblados<\/a> and Calle Manuel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.es\/maps\/place\/Calle+Manuel+Luna,+29,+28020+Madrid\/@40.454664,-3.7020063,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0xd422901c8d38dcb:0xb2978c8be7b6eb44!8m2!3d40.454664!4d-3.6998176\">Luna<\/a> centers. (Inexplicably absent from TripAdvisor&#8217;s Madrid Travel Guide.) An expat can while away hours in these places, in lines in front and in thumb-twiddling waits inside.<\/p>\n<p>I am living a near life of Riley in Spain. Visa renewal is the price tag. \u00a0(On the bright side: my freshly renewed visa is now good for two years, rather than the single year of the visa issued to me in San Francisco. I won&#8217;t need to deal with renewal chores again until 2019.)<\/p>\n<p>On to the bolts and nuts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/files\/visa\/how_I_renewed_non_lucrative_spain_visa_2017.pdf\">https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/files\/visa\/how_I_renewed_non_lucrative_spain_visa_2017.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p>Revised 8\/27\/17 to add information on visa term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/9\/2019: This post is out-of-date.\u00a0 Please see the 2019 update. * * * * * Please note cagey blog title wording. A title like Spain Visa Renewal Steps or How to Renew Your Spain Visa would suggest an offering of authoritative advice on how to renew your Spain student visa, or au pair visa, or&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,84,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expat","category-madrid","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"7\/9\/2019: This post is out-of-date.\u00a0 Please see the 2019 update. * * * * * Please note cagey blog title wording. A title like Spain Visa Renewal Steps or How to Renew Your Spain Visa would suggest an offering of authoritative advice on how to renew your Spain student visa, or au pair visa, or&hellip; Read More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tim Adams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Adams\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Adams\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Adams\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30\"},\"headline\":\"How I Renewed my Spain Visa\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":351,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Expat\",\"Madrid\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/\",\"name\":\"How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How I Renewed my Spain Visa\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/\",\"name\":\"Tim Adams\",\"description\":\"\u00a9 2011-2026\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30\",\"name\":\"Tim Adams\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tim Adams\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/transitophile.com\\\/chango\\\/author\\\/tim-adams\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams","og_description":"7\/9\/2019: This post is out-of-date.\u00a0 Please see the 2019 update. * * * * * Please note cagey blog title wording. A title like Spain Visa Renewal Steps or How to Renew Your Spain Visa would suggest an offering of authoritative advice on how to renew your Spain student visa, or au pair visa, or&hellip; Read More","og_url":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/","og_site_name":"Tim Adams","article_published_time":"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00","author":"Tim Adams","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tim Adams","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/"},"author":{"name":"Tim Adams","@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#\/schema\/person\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30"},"headline":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa","datePublished":"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/"},"wordCount":351,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#\/schema\/person\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30"},"articleSection":["Expat","Madrid"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/","url":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/","name":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa - Tim Adams","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-08-25T17:52:37+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-09T14:10:31+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/how-i-renewed-my-spain-visa\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How I Renewed my Spain Visa"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#website","url":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/","name":"Tim Adams","description":"\u00a9 2011-2026","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#\/schema\/person\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/#\/schema\/person\/ad8751e401bdc8efc601320ef9b03a30","name":"Tim Adams","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tim Adams"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e77e5f862fcf285a55cb40669c0fd71fc88114bde72a8e563e051ec8af96d5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"url":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/author\/tim-adams\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}