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How Can Citizens Advice Bureau Spain Benefit You?

As an expatriate living in Spain; do you find that the Spanish bureaucratic system can be disconcerting? Have you discovered that the simplest of transactions are difficult to conclude? Find yourself searching for answers to problems only to discover that there is nowhere where you could find a solution? I am assuming that the answer is yes and that is why should be a member of our web site if you arent already.

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Changing Residency From Uk To Irish Passport Members Experience

In answer to a question on our facebook group and from recent personal experience and assuming you are considering switching your nationality on official documents from British to Irish. To change nacionalidad I filled EX 18 and in the modificat...

Rental Deposits Madrid

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Don't Want To Receive Political Propaganda?

For whatever reason, environmental, political or to protect your privacy, then you can take yourself off the list that will be provided to Spanish political parties, should they request a copy of the electoral census for this purpose. Immediate ...

Renting A Room Any Tenant's Protection?

Tenant’s protection is guaranteed for long term rentals, for ‘uso vivienda’ in the Spanish Urban Lease Law (Ley de Arrendamientos Urbanos or LAU). Status quo in September 2019: 5 years (or 7 if the landlord is a business). The ...

Public Healthcare In Spain Entitlement And Dependants

Info in English from the Spanish Social Security (INSS or CAIS) on who are entitled to public healthcare and when you are, who you can register as your dependants ‘beneficiarios’. Also info on formalities, how to check your entitleme...

Can I Take My Unemployment Benefits Paro As Lumpsum?

Yes, you can, but only if you want to set up as self employed Autonomo, either as start capital or to fund your Autonomo contributions. When can you ask for the single payment? The self-employment activities for which the single payment of unem...

Need Financial Or Practical Help Getting To Regular Hospital Appointments?

From the AECC (Spanish Cancer Association) website. “Provision of health transport: favoring access to health care of the National Health System, to patients who, due to clinical impossibility, or geographical distance from the health cent...

How To Report A Crime Online

The information provided by the National Police is in Spanish. You can use a computer to translate into your preferred language. After placing the denuncia/report, you must visit the police within 72 hours or the report will be invalidated. &nbs...

Guide For Becarios Everything About (work) Practice With Businesses

The worker’s union CCOO has just published the latest edition of their guide for those that are in receipt of a ‘beca’ and are doing their ‘practica’ with businesses. Often their first encounter with the labour mark...

As Self Employed Autonomo, Can I Contract Employee?

If your business starts to grow and you need help, here are a series of steps to follow, to start your new stage: First, if you have not hired workers before, you have to register as an ‘empresario‘ with the General Treasury of the S...