Barcelona · Established for international families
Frictionless arrivals and legal landing for international university students in Barcelona.
Your child has a place at a Barcelona university. What stands between them and settling in is a chain of Spanish bureaucracy that is unforgiving of small errors — and conducted entirely in Spanish. We handle the chain, correctly, the first time.
Fixed fees, quoted with IVA before you pay. No hourly billing.
Supporting students arriving at
- EU Business School
- Harbour.Space
- IESE Business School
- ESADE
- Barcelona Technology School
Universities named are those our clients attend. We are an independent service and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any institution listed.
What actually goes wrong
Four failure points, and how we remove each one.
Cita previa slots vanish in seconds
Padrón and National Police appointments are released irregularly and taken within minutes by automated agents. Families refreshing a Spanish-language portal from another timezone rarely win one.
Our approach — We monitor release windows across Barcelona's districts and secure the appointment in your student's name, then send the confirmation with directions and the exact documents to carry.
One wrong box voids the whole file
An EX-17 with a second surname filled in as “N/A”, a representative section completed by a well-meaning parent, or a form printed with shifted field text is refused at the counter — and the next appointment is weeks away.
Our approach — Forms are generated programmatically from your verified data, flattened so nothing shifts on print, and cross-checked against the passport before the file leaves our hands.
The tax form cannot be paid online
Modelo 790 Código 012 carries a unique barcode and, for most students, must be paid in cash at a Spanish bank counter or ATM scanner. Students routinely arrive at the police station with an unpaid form.
Our approach — We configure the barcoded form for cash payment and give step-by-step instructions for CaixaBank, BBVA and Santander — including which branches accept non-customer payments.
Housing fraud targets arriving students
Listings advertised from abroad are frequently sublet illegally, owned by someone other than the “landlord”, or bound to deposits above the legal cap. Deposits wired before arrival are rarely recovered.
Our approach — On our Turnkey tier we pull the Nota Simple from the property registry to confirm who actually owns the flat, and check the contract's deposit against the statutory limit before anyone transfers money.
The process
Four stages, from intake to collected card.
- 01
Secure intake
Your student completes the encrypted questionnaire and uploads their passport, matrícula letter and lease. Documents are encrypted per-file with AES-256.
- 02
File assembly
We generate the correct form — EX-17 for non-EU students, EX-18 for EU nationals — configure the Modelo 790, and assemble a pre-checked Ready File.
- 03
Appointments secured
We book the Padrón and TIE/CUE appointments and deliver a dated itinerary: where to go, what to carry, what will be asked.
- 04
Settling in & tracking
Banking, transit and connectivity are set up in the first week. We track the file for 90 days, through to card collection.
Transparent pricing
Three packages. Fixed fees, stated with IVA.
Government fees (Modelo 790, card issuance) are paid directly by you to the Spanish authorities and are not included in our fee.
The Administrative Baseline
The legal essentials, correctly filed the first time.
62,79 € IVA (21%) · 361,79 € total
- Padrón (municipal registration) appointment scheduling
- TIE / CUE National Police appointment booking
- EX-17 or EX-18 form generation, pre-filled and print-ready
- Modelo 790 Código 012 barcoded tax form setup
- Pre-checked physical and digital “Ready File” assembly
The Digital Soft-Landing
Paperwork, plus everything that makes the city usable.
113,40 € IVA (21%) · 653,40 € total
Everything in The Administrative Baseline, plus:
- Spanish bank account setup guidance (non-resident to resident)
- T-mobilitat / T-jove transit pass registration
- Digital SIM / eSIM selection and activation guidance
- Carnet Jove and ISIC student card configuration
- Dedicated WhatsApp support line during onboarding
The Turnkey Relocation & Housing Audit
We verify the apartment before you wire a deposit.
231 € IVA (21%) · 1331 € total
Everything in The Digital Soft-Landing, plus:
- Verified housing sourcing against fraud-screened listings
- Landlord registry (Nota Simple) ownership audit
- Rental contract review with legal deposit-cap verification
- Utility activation guidance (water, electricity, internet)
- 90-day document tracking through to TIE card collection
Straight answers
Questions parents ask first.
Are you lawyers or a gestoría?
No. We are an independent administrative facilitation service. We prepare documents from information you provide, book appointments, and guide you through the process. We do not represent you before any authority and we do not give legal advice. Where a case needs legal analysis, we will tell you plainly and recommend you consult a colegiado abogado.
Does my student have to attend appointments in person?
Yes. Biometric appointments require the applicant to appear personally with original documents. We prepare the file, secure the slot and brief them thoroughly — but the appearance is theirs, in their own name.
What happens to the passport scans afterwards?
They are encrypted at rest with a unique key per file and permanently deleted 30 days after your service completes, by an automated retention job. You can request earlier deletion at any time.
Can you guarantee the residency card is approved?
No, and any service that guarantees this is misleading you. Decisions rest entirely with the Spanish authorities. What we control is that the file is complete, correct and submitted on time — which is where most rejections actually originate.
Why is the Modelo 790 paid in cash?
The Spanish tax agency's process for this form relies on a unique barcode read at a bank counter or ATM scanner. Without a Spanish digital certificate — which new arrivals do not have — online settlement is not available, so the form is configured for payment 'en efectivo'.