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by OFSO » Wed May 18, 2022 3:02 pm
I am discovering more and more about residency permíts as we Jump thru Hoop after Hoop, all because some (but not all) frontier police don't recognise our lifetime green A4 forms. We are also entitled to Golden Visas (i own property worth more than €500k) and Wealth Visas (income slightly over the pathetically low Spanish average) and five year Residencias, but replacing existing visas/residencies is difficult as the old ones are still valid. Tell that to the fatherless sons of b's at immigration counters.
The lady at our Gestoria has provided submissions, each perhaps 25 pages long, and pointing out my being a member of the Board of Governors of the Pension Association in Paris, where my income is paid (not here) and by whom (mysterious organisation) and just about every other relevant and non-relevant fact*, and sent them off to the Authorities. She said we might be invited to collect a five-year pass, or a ten-year pass, or "some other piece of paper", or in the worst case a downright refusal, but in the meantime I will receive a receipt stating " Residence applied for" or similar, which will validate our existing valid Residencias.
* I've just remembered I have an Indulgence from the Pope from about thirty years ago, bought in the Vatican Shop, and rubber stamped by the Rev Gentleman himself. Should have included that, although some Catalans are Orangemen at heart, so perhaps not.