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Spain Golden Visa Alternatives (Investor Residency)
Important: Spain's classic "Golden Visa" (a residence permit for purchasing real estate from 500,000 € or making financial investments) was discontinued as of April 3, 2025. We break down the investor and entrepreneur routes that still work and find a real alternative that fits your goal.
We take on difficult cases — even if you don't formally qualify
We don't turn people away: we find the legal ground and the route that fit your situation — including past refusals, non-standard documents and complicated circumstances. We guarantee the result: we work under a contract, payment is staged and tied to results, and if you are refused we refund our service fees in full, except for actual third-party costs — government fees, translations, apostille.
In brief. A turnkey investor residence permit can no longer be arranged — the programme is closed. Below we go through exactly what has been repealed, what happens to applications already filed and to permits already in force, and which grounds for Spanish residency work instead.
What's Left for Investors
Ley 14/2013 no longer contains the operative provisions of articles 63–67, which governed the investor visa and residencia para inversores (investor residence). This means that buying property or making any other investment that previously fell under the golden visa no longer, in itself, creates a new investor-residence route under those articles.
Applications filed before the repeal
The UGE has published a transitional rule: applications from investors and their families filed before the repeal took effect may be processed under the rules in force on the date of filing. For any specific expediente (case file), the filing date and procedural status need to be checked.
Golden visas already in force
Visas and autorizaciones (authorisations) valid as at the date of the reform keep the term for which they were issued. The UGE also sets out a special transitional rule for renewing investor authorisations obtained on the basis of a property purchase: the renewal is assessed under the rules in force when the permit was originally granted. This is a separate situation and does not mean that a new applicant can enter a programme that is closed.
Buying property is still possible
Repealing the golden visa does not prohibit a foreign national from buying property in Spain. What has changed is something else: the purchase itself is no longer a new investor-based ground for immigration status. Property and residency now need to be planned as two separate tasks.
- The entrepreneur and business route for those launching or running a business in Spain.
- Often the DNV works instead of the investor route — if you manage your business and clients remotely.
How We Help
We assess your situation and goal, tell you honestly which route is realistically viable, and guide you along the chosen path all the way to the TIE resident card.
Service Cost
Full support: 1 person — 4000 €, 2 — 5500 €, 3 — 7000 €, +1200 € per additional family member · staged payments
- Diagnostics and selection of a realistic route
- Document collection and sworn translations
- Dossier preparation for the chosen route
- Filing and responses to authority requests
- Support until the whole family receives TIE cards
Government fees and direct third-party costs (notary, translations, insurance premiums) are billed separately as incurred.
How We Work
- Free diagnostics and route selection
- We prepare documents and translations
- We file the application
- We manage the case until approval
- We help you obtain TIE cards
What stays on your side
- Hand over the source documents and accurate details of your situation — from there we do the work ourselves.
- Pay the government fees and third-party services: translations, apostille, notary. These are paid directly and are not part of the case handling.
- Appear in person where presence is required: fingerprinting, the consular interview, signing before a notary.
- Tell us when something changes — address, job, family, letters from the authority: the timeline depends on it.
The procedures rest on the Reglamento de Extranjería (RD 1155/2024, in force since 20 May 2025) and, for citizenship, on the Código Civil; the official texts are published by the BOE. EuroGarant is a private firm: we are not a government body and are not affiliated with Extranjería, the National Police or the Spanish consulates. The decision on an application is made by the authority alone.
FAQ
- Is Spain's Golden Visa still available? No: the classic investment-based program was discontinued as of April 3, 2025. However, other investor and entrepreneur routes to a residence permit remain.
- What alternatives are there? The DNV (for those who work remotely) or the entrepreneur route is often a good fit. We will match one to your goal during the diagnostic session.
- How much does full support cost? From 4000 € for one applicant; the cost depends on the number of family members. Staged payments, as results are delivered.