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ENTREPRENEUR VISA · BUILD YOUR COMPANY IN SPAIN

Spain actually wants your startup. It just makes you prove it isn’t a lemonade stand.

Move to Spain and build your company here — with a founder’s visa that brings your family, fast-tracks your file, and plugs you into Spain’s startup tax perks. The catch? Your project has to pass an innovation test. That’s exactly what we’re built for. In English.

See if your project qualifies How it works

Built for founders from the US, UK & Canada. Lawyers who’ve read an actual business plan.

FOUNDER TO FOUNDER

You’ve pitched VCs. Spanish bureaucracy is a tougher room

You’ve survived due diligence. You’ve cold-emailed strangers for money. And yet the thing that trips up most founders isn’t the idea — it’s a report they didn’t know existed. The “innovative and of economic interest” box that quietly sinks half the DIY applications. The self-employed permit people apply for by mistake, walking through entirely the wrong door.

The entrepreneur visa (residence for entrepreneurial activity under Law 14/2013) is one of the best founder deals in Europe — if, and only if, your file speaks the exact language the evaluators want to hear. That translation is the whole game. It’s ours.

Package a scalable idea the way Spain wants to see it, and you get residence, the right to build it here, and your family with you — on the fast lane through the large-companies unit, which is famously quick when the file is clean.

Solo founder? Two-person team? Fine. This is about the project’s merit, not your headcount. Bring the idea; we’ll bring the paperwork.

THE 30-SECOND SELF-CHECK

Do you qualify? Read these out loud

Ticked most of these? Good. The rest is our job, not yours.

  • You have an innovative, scalable business project — tech, product or something with real economic upside.
  • You can (with our help) show why it’s innovative and good for Spain’s economy — the make-or-break of the whole application.
  • You’ve got the funds to support yourself and get the project moving.
  • You have relevant experience or background for the venture.
  • You’ll hold private health insurance and can show a clean criminal record.
  • You’re a national of a non-EU country — US, UK, Canada, welcome.

Requirements, funds and the innovation assessment are set by current Spanish law and confirmed for your case before you rely on them.

TWO DOORS — PICK THE RIGHT ONE

Innovative founder or self-employed? They’re not the same

This is where DIY applications go to die. The two routes look similar and are wildly different in practice. Here’s the short version.

ROUTE A

Entrepreneur (innovative) visa

Law 14/2013. For scalable, innovative ventures of economic interest. Needs the favourable innovation report — and it’s fast when it’s right.

  • Favourable innovation & economic-interest report
  • Fast-track through the large-companies unit
  • Family included from the start
  • Plugs into Spain’s Startups Law perks
ROUTE B

Self-employed (autónomo)

For running your own business or professional activity that doesn’t need the “innovation” badge. A different, viable path — and often the wrong one for a startup.

  • Standard self-employment / freelance activity
  • Business plan & viability, not “innovation”
  • Different requirements and timeline
  • We tell you honestly which door is yours

Choose wrong and you rebuild the whole file. Choose right and you’re months ahead. One call sorts it.

WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WALK AWAY WITH

A visa, a company, and a very good tax address

1

Residence + work as a founder

Live in Spain and build your company legally, from day one.

2

Fast-track processing

Handled by the large-companies unit — one of the quicker routes Spain offers when the file is right.

3

Family included

Partner and children come with you, in the same application.

4

Startups Law perks

Access to Spain’s founder-friendly tax regime and startup ecosystem.

5

A path forward

Time on the permit counts toward long-term residence down the line.

6

Everything in English

The report, the plan, the forms, the follow-ups — handled in your language.

HOW WE WORK

Four steps. You keep building

1

Free strategy call

Your project, your timeline. We tell you the right route and whether it flies.

2

We build the case

Framing the plan for the innovation report, documents, translations — the decisive part.

3

We file & chase

Submission through the right unit, plus the follow-up you’ll never have to think about.

4

You build

Visa granted, TIE card sorted, and you get back to the fun part — your company.

BEFORE YOU ASK

The questions every founder emails us anyway

What makes a project “innovative” enough?

The gatekeeper is a favourable report confirming your project is genuinely innovative and of general economic interest — think a scalable technology or product, a novel model, real growth and job-creation potential, not a corner shop. There’s no single checklist; it’s about how the project is framed and evidenced against what the evaluators look for. Packaging that case is the whole game, and it’s exactly what we do.

I’m a solo founder with a small team. Do I qualify?

Very possibly. The entrepreneur route is about the merit of the project, not your headcount — solo founders and two-person teams qualify all the time. What matters is that the venture is innovative, scalable and of economic interest, and that the file says so in the language the report demands.

Are there real tax advantages?

Yes. The route plugs into Spain’s Startups Law (Ley 28/2022) and its founder-friendly regime, and depending on your situation the Beckham-style impatriate regime may be on the table. The specifics depend on your structure and income, so we screen for what actually applies to you rather than promising a headline number — and we confirm figures against current law before you rely on them.

Can my family come with me?

Yes. Your partner and dependent children can be included in the same application, so the family moves together rather than facing a separate marathon of appointments. We file the family members alongside the main applicant.

Entrepreneur visa or self-employed (autónomo) — which is mine?

This is where DIY applications go to die: the two routes look similar and are wildly different in practice. The entrepreneur visa is for innovative, scalable ventures and needs the favourable innovation report; the autónomo permit is for standard self-employment that doesn’t need that badge. Choose wrong and you rebuild the whole file. One call sorts which door is yours.

I’m American / British / Canadian. Is this for me?

Yes — the entrepreneur visa is built for non-EU founders, which is exactly what US, UK and Canadian citizens are. If you’ve got an innovative project and want a Spanish base for it, this is one of the best founder deals in Europe. We handle the report, the plan and the paperwork in English, end to end.

Alberto García López

Reviewed by a lawyer

Reviewed by Alberto García López

Immigration lawyer · ICA Málaga, reg. no. 11.441

We check every page against current Spanish law. This is general information, not advice on your individual case.

Signature of Alberto García López
YOUR MOVE

Let’s get your company a Spanish address.

One free call. No jargon, no pressure, no 40-page PDF. Just a straight answer on whether your project qualifies, which route fits, and what happens next.

Book your free strategy call

+34 667 77 02 19 · infoglobalextranjeria@gmail.com

P.S. — you raised money from strangers on the strength of a deck. Sending one email is not the hard part. Bring the idea; we’ll bring the paperwork.