TIE HoySpanish family visa — consular steps
Navigate the embassy or consulate process for your Spanish family visa.
When must you apply for the visa?
Spanish sponsor in Spain, you abroad: within one month after the sponsor is notified of authorization.
Consulate checks Art. 38 except 38.h; fifteen-day decision — Art. 41.2.
What if both of you are abroad?
The visa also requests Spanish-family residence.
Bring Art. 96 proof for the Spanish relative and family-category documents — Art. 96.
Extranjería: two months from consular notice, negative silence; the consulate has fifteen days from receiving a favorable residence decision.
Art. 41.2
One month from authorization notice to the Spanish sponsor.
Art. 38 requirements except Art. 38.h, plus relationship originals.
Include 38.a, 38.d ≥1 year, 38.e if adult, 38.i.
Art. 41.3
Visa application also requests residence.
Art. 96 Spanish relative identity and family-category proof — Art. 96.
Extranjería: two months from consular notice, negative silence; the consulate has fifteen days from receiving a favorable residence decision.
Collect the visa, then enter Spain
Collect the granted visa within one month of its approval notification (28.4); failure to collect means abandonment and archive.
Check the actual visa’s entry-validity dates. After entering, request TIE within one month (97.7).
This collection deadline differs from the one-month visa-application clock in 41.2.
Your first TIE
Personally request TIE within one month of entry (97.7).
Use the fingerprint checklist for the police appointment.
What to do
Match Art. 97.1(a) or (b) before you count consular days.
Bring
- Signed visa application (Art. 38.a)
- Passport valid ≥1 year (Art. 38.d)
- At criminal-responsibility age: records from countries of residence during the previous five years (38.e).
- Medical certificate (Art. 38.i)
- 41.2: authorization notice — or 41.3: Art. 96 Spanish relative + family proof
- Consular appointment if your post requires it
Steps
- Confirm Art. 97.1: sponsor in Spain (41.2) or both abroad (41.3).
- Locate consulate via Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
- Prepare 38.a signed form, 38.d passport ≥1 year, 38.e criminal records if adult, 38.i medical, plus relationship originals.
- Use authorization notice to sponsor only on Art. 41.2; on 41.3 rely on Art. 96 instead.
- After entry, request first TIE within one month with approval and passport — Art. 97.7.
Basis
Art. 41 consular clocks; Art. 38 visa papers; Art. 96 in the both-abroad track.