Foreigner Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Extension of short-term stay
Exceptionally extend the stay of foreign persons who have entered Spain for purposes other than their residence, work or long-term stay.
Requirements and conditions
- Those who are in Spain in one of the following cases will be in a situation of short stay:
- The person who holds a short-stay visa, during its period of validity.
- Anyone who is in Spain for an expected stay of a duration not exceeding ninety calendar days within any period of one hundred and eighty calendar days and is not subject to the visa requirement as established by European Union law.
- Who, exceptionally, has been authorized to stay in Spanish territory for a duration not exceeding ninety calendar days within any period of one hundred and eighty calendar days under the terms of article 51 of RD 1155/2024, of 19 November.
Classes and typologies
- Extension of stay without a visa.
- Extension of the short-stay visa.
Who are the interested parties?
- Foreign persons who have entered Spain for purposes other than their residence, work or long-term stay.
Duration of the extension
- In the event of entry with visa, when the duration of the visa is less than three months, the stay may be extended, which under no circumstances may exceed three months in a period of six months.
- In the event of visa-free entry, when exceptional circumstances so warrant, the stay of a foreigner in Spanish territory may be authorized beyond three months.
How to carry out the procedure
On-site Go
- Model of request extension of stay.
- Rate model 790, code 012.
- The application, together with the documentation to accompany it, must be filed with the Superior Headquarters or Police Station of the province where the foreign person is to remain and will be issued in the competent units determined by the Directorate-General of Police
Documentation
Documents for the visa extension
- Model of request extension of stay.
- Proof of payment Tax model 790 Code 012.
- Ordinary passport or travel document, valid longer than the length of the requested stay, which will be recorded in the file and returned to the person concerned.
- Proof of the reasons given for the application, which must be exceptional, in the case of nationals of States that do not require a visa for entry into Spain and of a humanitarian nature, force majeure or serious personal reasons in the case of nationals of States that do require a visa for entry into Spain.
- Sufficient proof that it has adequate financial means for the extension time requested, in the terms established in title I, Regime of entry and exit from Spanish territory, of RD 1155/2024, of 19 November.
- Travel assistance insurance with the same coverage as necessary for the application for the short-stay visa, and with a validity equal to or greater than the extension requested.
- Guarantees of return to the country of origin or, where appropriate, of admission to the third State of destination, prior to the date of completion of the extension requested. It may serve as a means to prove this circumstance the contribution of a ticket purchased in the name of the applicant with a closed return date prior to the end of the period of extension of stay requested.
Information
Basic data of the procedure:
- Resolution of the procedure:
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- The extension of stay may be granted by the Deputy Government Delegates, by the Government Delegates in the Autonomous Uniprovincial Communities, and by the Commissioner General for Foreigners and Borders of the General Directorate of the Police, after a report from the Superior Headquarters or Police Station.
- The decision on the procedure does put an end to the administrative procedure.
- Effect of the lack of resolution in this period: Dismissal (initiation at the request of the interested party).
- Regulations governing administrative silence:
- ORGANIC LAW 4/2000 of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners and their social integration.
- Bodies competent to resolve this procedure:
- Resources that can be interposed:
- Replenishment
- Organ that resolves the appeal: Organ that dictated the act.
- Time-limit for lodging the appeal: 1 month.
- Contentious - Administrative
- Organ that resolves the appeal:
- Contentious Court - Administrative.
- Central Administrative Litigation Courts; Administrative Litigation Chambers of the High Court of Justice.
- Administrative Litigation Chamber of the National Court; Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court.
- Time-limit for lodging the appeal: 2 months.
- Organ that resolves the appeal:
- Replenishment
- Resolution of the procedure:
Regulations:
- ORGANIC LAW 4/2000 of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners and their social integration. Open a new window. External link.
- Royal Decree 1155/2024, of 19 November, approving the Regulation of Organic Law 4/2000, of 11 January, on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and their social integration. Open a new window. External link.
- Code of the procedure: 994236
Models of forms
- Request for authorization of stay and extensions (LO 4/2000 and RD 1155/2024) (Form EX29) Opens new window
- Rate, amount and place of payment
- Printed Tax Model 790 Code 012 Opens a new window. External link.
- View Amount of Fees
- Banks, Savings Banks and Credit Cooperatives, in which it is not necessary to have an open account, by presenting the entry document
All the procedures
All the formalities and procedures of foreigners
- Foreigner procedures
- Extension of short-term stayForm EX29
- Student card for foreigners starting or renewing(Form EX17)
- Assignment of NIE at the request of interested party.(Form EX15)
- Certificate of registration(Form EX16)
- Certificate of Resident(Form EX15)
- Certificate of non-resident(Form EX15)
- Statue of Stateless Person(Form)
- Authorisation issuance invitation letter(Form)
- EU citizen registration certificate(Form EX18)
- Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work(Form EX17)
- Residence card for a relative of a citizen of the European Union(Form EX19)
- Authorization and renewal of temporary residence for exceptional circumstances(Form EX10)
- Authorization of Return(Form EX13)
- Long-term residence card(Form EX17)
- More information
- Return of Foreigners
- Prohibition of departure
- Prohibition of entry
- Refugee identity document, subsidiary protection and stateless person
- Travel document for refugee, subsidiary protection and stateless person
- Document Letter of Invitation
- Authorization of registration of undocumented persons
- Exceptional authorisation of entry
- Exceptional authorisation for a short stay
- Visa processing transit/stay at the border
- Refusal of entry into Spain
- Expulsion of foreigners
- Sanctioning in the matter of foreigners
- Foreigner Fees
- Documentation and Information