Arraigo in Spain for €440, fully online.

Online, on the Mercurio platform of the Public Administrations e-office, with a digital certificate or Cl@ve, choosing your province; notices arrive through DEHú. Without a digital certificate, a representative can file it: a lawyer or a gestoría, at a price quoted by each firm, or Booka for a €440 service fee; Booka Legal, our legal team, reviews and files the case. Government fees are paid separately.

Not any more. That measure did exist: Royal Decree 316/2026 added two temporary routes to the regulation — the twentieth and twenty-first additional provisions — and both accepted applications «until 30 June 2026», so that window is closed. What we handle are the five ordinary arraigo routes in the Immigration Regulation, which remain open with no closing date. If someone charges you today to file the extraordinary one, they are charging for a procedure that no longer accepts applications.

Arraigo is the legal route for people already living in Spain: five types exist under art. 125 of the current regulation, generally requiring 2 years of continuous residence. Which one fits depends on your contract, training or family ties.

Not all routes require a contract: social and training-based arraigo are built on other requirements. With your padrón history we tell you which route is viable — and if none is yet, we tell you that too.

Time living in Spain counts towards the 2 years and is evidenced mainly through the padrón. Time as an asylum applicant, however, does not count until that application is finally decided.

As a general rule, 2 years of continuous residence — it used to be 3. Family arraigo is the exception and requires no minimum period. Residence is evidenced mainly through the historical padrón certificate.

It is the route for people who held a residence permit within the previous 2 years and could not renew it, for reasons other than public order. It restores legal status without restarting the count from zero, and it is the route most often overlooked.

Work-based arraigo is built on one or more contracts adding up to at least 20 hours a week. Social arraigo does not revolve around a contract but around means and documented integration. Choosing wrong between the two causes more refusals than anything else.

No. All five routes cost the same, so the initial assessment cannot make your case more expensive: it identifies which arraigo applies without the answer changing what you pay.

Arraigo exists precisely for people who have been living in Spain for some time, regardless of how they entered. What decides the case is documented residence and the requirement specific to the route, not the permit you arrived on.

It is the reform of the Immigration Regulation in force since 16 April 2026. Three changes affect arraigo. First, article 130.5: in arraigo sociolaboral, once the application is admitted for processing and until it is decided, the applicant is provisionally allowed to reside and work as an employee, and the notice starting the procedure states so. Second, article 126.h): you cannot apply for arraigo while holding another stay or residence permit, or while another permit procedure is open. Third, article 132.2.a): extending arraigo de segunda oportunidad, sociolaboral and social requires evidence of active job-seeking and registration with the public employment service, unless justified circumstances prevent access to work, such as illness, disability or legal retirement age.

No. Royal Decree 316/2026 added two temporary routes: the twentieth additional provision, for people who had applied for international protection before 1 January 2026, and the twenty-first, an extraordinary arraigo for people present in Spain before that same date. Both stated that the permit «may be applied for until 30 June 2026», so that window has closed. If you have read that they are still open, that information is out of date. What remains available are the five ordinary arraigo routes, which have no closing date.

The maximum period to notify is 3 months from the day after the application enters the register of the competent body (seventh additional provision). After that, silence is negative and the application is deemed refused (eighth additional provision). The appeal window opens from there.

It depends on the route. There is a common core — historical padrón certificate, complete passport and criminal record certificates from every country where you lived in the last 5 years — and on top of it whatever the route requires: a contract, enrolment or proof of the family tie.

Yes, with no interest or surcharge: the total is identical either way. The first half opens your case and starts the document review; the second is paid when we file your application — if we have not filed, you do not pay it. You request it from your case file and someone from the team confirms it within 24 working hours.

No: Booka's fee covers review, preparation, filing and follow-up. Government fees are paid directly to the administration, and we tell you which ones apply and when inside your case file.

Three things you can check: the price is published before you pay, payment is online with an invoice, and the second half is only charged once your application has been filed, with the official registry receipt visible in your case file. No informal intermediary gives you those three proofs.