SpainSpain Passive Income Visa · Residency in Spain after the Golden Visa

Your spouse, registered partner or proven stable partner, your unmarried minor children and those of your partner, and adult children who have a disability that requires support or who cannot objectively provide for their own needs because of their health. Each family member adds 100% of the IPREM to the means you must prove.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 61.3 and art. 62.1(b) ↗

Yes. Children included in your residence authorization can attend school in Spain, and the public system is compulsory and free from six to sixteen for every resident child. Adult children can enroll in Spanish universities under the same conditions as other residents. Ask your advisor about schooling options in the city you choose.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 61.3 ↗

The Immigration Office has one month to decide on the residence authorization, and the consulate has one month to issue the visa once the authorization is approved: about two months in total, depending on the workload of the consulate and the office. If there is no decision within those periods, the application is considered refused, although it can still be decided favorably later.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, arts. 39.5 and 63.4 ↗

No. The visa is requested at the Spanish consulate of your country of residence, in person or through a representative where the consulate allows it. Once the visa is issued, you enter Spain within three months of the visa being issued and request your residence card (TIE) in person within one month of arrival.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, arts. 63.5 and 64 ↗

A passport, the application forms, proof of sufficient means for the first year, private or public health insurance valid in Spain, a criminal record certificate from the countries where you lived in the last five years and a medical certificate, all legalized or apostilled and translated into Spanish. The consulate may ask for an interview or additional documents.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 62; Spanish Consulate in London ↗

Yes, if you want to renew. The regulation requires actual and effective residence in Spain for more than 183 days during the calendar year to renew the authorization, and the first authorization lasts one year from your entry. If you plan to spend most of the year elsewhere, ask your advisor about other options.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 64.2(f) ↗

No. The non-lucrative residence does not allow any work or professional activity in Spain. You live on your own means and can manage your investments abroad. If you later want to work, you apply to change to a work authorization once you meet its requirements.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 61.1 ↗

Yes. A Spanish residence card lets you travel to the other Schengen countries without a visa for up to 90 days in any 180-day period, under the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement. It does not allow you to live or work in another Schengen country.

Legal basis: Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, art. 21 ↗

The first authorization lasts one year and each renewal two years. You apply in the 60 days before it expires, with updated proof of means and insurance and proof that you spent more than 183 days a year in Spain. The Immigration Office has three months to decide, and silence means approval.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 64.7 and 64.8 ↗

Not by itself, but living in Spain more than 183 days a year, which this permit requires for renewal, is the main test of tax residence under Spanish law, so most holders become tax residents. Plan this with a tax advisor before you move; Orience can introduce you to one.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 64.2(f); Personal Income Tax Law 35/2006, art. 9 ↗

Yes. Spain distinguishes between visas, which let you enter the country, and residence authorizations, which let you live there. Besides the non-lucrative residence, there are routes for remote workers (the Digital Nomad Visa), highly qualified professionals, intra-company transfers, entrepreneurs and students, and other residence authorizations, such as residence and work for people hired from their country of origin. Each has its own requirements. An Orience advisor compares them with your situation.

Legal basis: Organic Law 4/2000 and Royal Decree 1155/2024; Law 14/2013 (Entrepreneurs Law) ↗

Yes. The Orience Passive Income Visa is designed to meet the official requirements of the program, set out in the law linked below, which is the route your family applies through. Your advisor explains how the solution fits the program before you commit to anything.

Legal basis: Royal Decree 1155/2024, art. 62 ↗

Orience, a European firm with more than a decade of experience in citizenship and residency by investment, together with our local partners in Spain. Your advisor shares the details with each family personally.

The holding period and the exit conditions are set out in the program documentation that your advisor sends you before you decide. We do not publish them on this page, because they depend on the route you choose and on the rules in force when you apply. Go through that documentation with your advisor and with your own advisors.

You can, and the law does not require you to invest through Orience. Our solution is designed so that the investment and the residence permit fit together from the start, with the documents and the timing the program expects, and our team accompanies you from the first conversation to the permit and its renewals. Many families prefer one team responsible for the whole process. In our experience, holding the funds in a Spanish bank account also makes it easier to prove that the means exist and are available in Spain.