How visa help and health insurance fit together

Two providers, two purchases

The visa work. Platinum Legal Spain and My Spanish Visa are both visa-processing services in our group. Both handle initial non-lucrative visa applications and renewals, initial digital nomad visa applications and renewals, and student visa matters. Both may be recommended equally, and their prices are the same, so the choice between them is yours to make on preference rather than on cost.

The insurance. We arrange private health insurance for people moving to and living in Spain. Where a residence route names health insurance among its requirements, we can arrange a policy that meets what that route asks.

Charged separately, and genuinely separable

Visa-processing assistance is charged separately from insurance. That is not a presentational point. It means you can:

• arrange private health insurance with us and handle the application yourself, or through somebody else entirely;
• use one of the visa-processing partners and arrange your cover elsewhere;
• do both, as two separate arrangements.

Nothing on this site makes one conditional on the other, and no price we quote for one depends on whether you take the other.

Where each route is decided, and by whom

This is easy to get upside down, so it is worth stating plainly.

A first non-lucrative application is made at the Spanish consular office, and the regulation is explicit that applying for the visa carries the residence application with it. You are not making two applications.

A non-lucrative renewal is made in Spain, to the immigration office, not to a consulate. A digital nomad renewal goes instead to the specialist unit that handles that route.

The digital nomad route can begin either way: at a consulate before you travel, or in Spain as an application for a residence authorisation if you are already here legally.

A student authorisation can be applied for from outside Spain, and in certain cases from inside Spain where the person is already here lawfully.

Which of those applies to you is a question for a partner, not for us.

The order things usually happen in

People generally settle their route first, then look at what the route asks of a policy, then decide whether they want help with the application. That is a common order, not a required one.

What we will not do is put a timetable on it. How long any application takes is not something we can tell you, and anyone who gives you a confident number is guessing.

What stays with you

The application is yours. The decision on it is made by the Spanish administration. Nobody here can promise an outcome, promise that a document will be accepted, or tell you that you qualify.

What we refer onward

Questions about whether you are eligible, about a case with complications, or about the application itself go to a visa-processing partner. We will give you both, not one.