- EU Blue Card (tarjeta azul-UE)
A contract or firm offer of at least six months, plus a higher-education qualification of three years or more — or five years of comparable experience.
- Highly qualified professional (profesional altamente cualificado)
Spain's national fast-track for higher-education professionals, or people with equivalent experience, hired by a qualifying employer.
- Intra-company transfer (traslado intraempresarial)
Your group moves you to its Spanish entity as a manager, specialist or trainee.
- Researcher (investigación, Ley 14/2013 art. 72)
A Spanish university, R&D centre or business school has agreed to host you.
Quoted here, not scored
Two routes we hold the rules for and will not score. Each page states them as the authority does, with the day we read them, and asks you nothing; the checker never offers them.
- Employee, general regime (residencia y trabajo por cuenta ajena)
The general regime's way in: an employer in Spain applies for a non-EU worker to live and work as an employee.
- International teleworker (teletrabajo de carácter internacional)
Living in Spain while working remotely, by computer and telecommunications only, for employers or clients based outside it.