Residencia card

Thank you all. SOLVIT very helpfull see below.

It is Ana Iglesias, from SOLVIT Spain.

I am very sorry for the problems your wife suffered to get a visa.

Once your wife is in Spain, she has to apply for her residence card in the Foreigners Office of Alicante before the expiring delay of three months of her visa.

If I have rightly understood she arrived on 24 December to Spain, so she has to apply of her residence card before the 24 March.

If you happen to have any problem with the marriage certificate when applying for the residence card, please let us know. If the marriage certificate has been legalized on the 8th October 2012 by the British Consulate in Bangkok, and then accepted by the Spanish Consulate, you shouldn’t have any problem.

We have discussed with the Spanish Immigration Authorities on validity of the certificates. They have agreed that the rule of   3 months of validity is not applicable to those cases.

Accordingly, you can enter a claim in case you have any problem with the issuance of the residence permit.

Kindest regards,

Ana IGLESIAS

Jefa de Área de la Red SOLVIT

Tfno: +34 91 379 8438        Fax: 34 91 394 8684

Email: solvit@ue.maec.es

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Good luck Potblack

Please keep us informed how things go.

Yes, good luck and do let all know how it goes.

I would make the application as soon as possible. You may hit the same brick wall again and need to call for direct intervention by SOLVIT. Unfortunately, the staff in many of these 'foreigners' offices make up their own rules as they go along, and often are highly resistant to backing down, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence or instructions to the contrary!

Don't forget if you are in the right

" .......   and often are highly resistant to backing down,"

Is their a Foreigners Office in Malaga as there is in Alicante please?

Thank you John, I knew you would come up trumps. I do value your fount of years & years of knowledge.

May I ask from where you are in Spain?

6 month if you had you passport stamped.

as an unretired citizen living in spain for 10 years i know a lot of people so have experienced all kinds of things.

but dont take this as legal advice.

Just bring this to the front of the current  list so I can refer someone to it.