{
  "country": {
    "code": "ES",
    "name": "Spain"
  },
  "route": {
    "id": "es-highly-qualified",
    "name": "Highly qualified professional (profesional altamente cualificado)",
    "kind": "res-work",
    "summary": "Spain's national fast-track for higher-education professionals, or people with equivalent experience, hired by a qualifying employer. One salary threshold, with no reduced version, decided in 20 working days.",
    "info_url": "https://www.inclusion.gob.es/web/unidadgrandesempresas/profesionales-altamente-cualificados",
    "scope": {
      "value": "some-conditions-stated-not-asked",
      "reason": "Every rule that decides this route is a question you answer; one condition the authority states — that Spain's large-companies unit handles the application and the Directorate-General for Migration grants it — is listed with the rules below and never asked. The three years of experience it accepts instead of a degree have no window, so your answer about the last seven years stands in for them.",
      "not_asked": [
        "handled-by-the-large-companies-unit",
        "seven-year-answer-is-a-floor"
      ]
    },
    "criteria": [
      {
        "field": "citizenship",
        "op": "eq",
        "value": "third_country"
      },
      {
        "field": "destination",
        "op": "in",
        "values": [
          "es",
          "all"
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "situation",
        "op": "eq",
        "value": "offer"
      },
      {
        "op": "any",
        "label": "located in Spain",
        "paths": [
          {
            "label": "Spain chosen as destination",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "destination",
                "op": "eq",
                "value": "es"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "offer in Spain",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "situation_country",
                "op": "eq",
                "value": "es"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "op": "any",
        "label": "qualification or experience",
        "paths": [
          {
            "label": "higher-education qualification",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "qualification",
                "op": "eq",
                "value": "degree"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "professional experience",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "experience_7y",
                "op": "in",
                "values": [
                  "3to5",
                  "5plus"
                ],
                "short_reason": "at least three years of related experience",
                "source": {
                  "source_url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2013-10074",
                  "quote": "conocimientos, capacidades y competencias avaladas por una experiencia profesional de al menos tres años que pueda considerarse equiparable a dicha cualificación",
                  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07",
                  "legal_basis": "Ley 14/2013, art. 71.2",
                  "history": [
                    {
                      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07",
                      "quote": "conocimientos, capacidades y competencias avaladas por una experiencia profesional de al menos tres años que pueda considerarse equiparable a dicha cualificación",
                      "source_url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2013-10074",
                      "reason": "rule-rekeyed",
                      "checked_at": "2026-09-17",
                      "note": "s25 (v1.1 critique F2): read experience in [y3in7, y5in7] before, experience_7y in [3to5, 5plus] after."
                    }
                  ]
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2013-10074",
          "quote": "una titulación equiparable al menos al nivel 1 del Marco Español de Cualificaciones para la Educación Superior",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07",
          "legal_basis": "Ley 14/2013, art. 71.2"
        }
      },
      {
        "field": "salary_eur_year",
        "op": "gte",
        "threshold_label": "the one salary amount on this route",
        "threshold": {
          "amount": 41356.36,
          "currency": "EUR",
          "source_url": "https://www.inclusion.gob.es/documents/d/unidadgrandesempresas/umbral-salarial.pdf",
          "quote": "Se establece un umbral único de 41.356,36 €",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-02",
          "legal_basis": "Ley 14/2013 art. 71.2.b) + UGE threshold publication (June 2026)",
          "history": []
        }
      }
    ],
    "statements": [
      {
        "id": "handled-by-the-large-companies-unit",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "The application must be handled by Spain's large-companies unit (UGE), and it is the Directorate-General for Migration that grants it",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2013-10074",
          "quote": "La tramitación de las autorizaciones de residencia previstas en esta sección se efectuará por la Unidad de Grandes Empresas y Colectivos Estratégicos, a través de medios telemáticos y su concesión corresponderá a la Dirección General de Migraciones.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07",
          "legal_basis": "Ley 14/2013, art. 76.1"
        }
      }
    ],
    "readings": [
      {
        "id": "seven-year-answer-is-a-floor",
        "text": "Our question asks about the last seven years; article 71.2 names no window for its three, so three or more there meets the rule, and experience older than seven years — which the law also counts — is not something this card can see."
      }
    ]
  },
  "page": "https://permitrulebook.com/spain/highly-qualified-professional/",
  "dataset_version": "2026.09.18",
  "schema_version": "0.8.2",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "https://github.com/OytunOnal/permit-rulebook-data",
  "rules_read": "2026-09-17"
}