Foreigner Procedures
Procedures and Procedures
Extension of short-term stay
To extend, exceptionally, 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 November 19.
Classes and typologies
- Extension of stay without a visa.
- Extension of the short-stay visa.
Who are the stakeholders?
- Foreign persons who have entered Spain for purposes other than their residence, work or long-term stay.
Duration of the extension
- In the case of entry with visa, when the duration of the visa is less than three months, the stay may be extended, which in no case may be more than three months in a period of six.
- In the event of entry without a visa, when exceptional circumstances so warrant, the stay of a foreigner foreigner in Spanish territory may be authorized beyond three months.
How to carry out the procedure
Face-to-face Go
- Model of request extension of stay.
- Rate model 790, code 012.
- The application, together with the documentation that must accompany it, must be submitted to the Superior Headquarters or Police Station of the province where the foreign person is going to stay and will be issued in the competent units determined by the General Directorate 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 stay requested, which will be recorded in the file and returned to the interested party.
- Accreditation 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 that required for the application of 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. The contribution of a ticket purchased in the name of the applicant with a closed date of return prior to the end of the period of extension of stay requested may serve as evidence of this circumstance.
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 Sub-Delegates of the Government, by the Government Delegates in the Uniprovincial Autonomous Communities, and by the General Commissioner for Foreigners and Borders of the General Directorate of the Police, after a report from the Superior Headquarters or Police Station.
- The resolution of the procedure does put an end to the administrative route.
- 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:
- Replacement
- Organ that resolves the resource: Organ that dictated the act.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 1 month.
- Contentious - Administrative
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Contentious Court - Administrative.
- Central Administrative Litigation Courts; Administrative Litigation Chambers of the High Court of Justice.
- Administrative Litigation Division of the National High Court; Administrative Litigation Division of the Supreme Court.
- Period for lodging an appeal: 2 months.
- Organ that resolves the resource:
- Replacement
- 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
- Application for authorization of stay and extensions (LO 4/2000 and RD 1155/2024) (Form EX29) Opens new window
- Fee, amount and place of payment
- Printed Tax Model 790 Code 012 Opens 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, through the presentation of the income document
All the procedures
All foreigner procedures and procedures
- Foreigner procedures
- Extension of short-term stayForm EX29
- Student Card for Foreigners(Form EX17)
- Allocation of NIE at the request of interested parties.(Form EX15)
- Registration certificate(Form EX16)
- Certificate of Resident(Form EX15)
- Certificate of non-resident(Form EX15)
- Stateless Person's Statute(Form)
- Authorization issuance letter of invitation(Form)
- EU Citizen Registration Certificate(Form EX18)
- Initial card or renewal residence or residence and work(Form EX17)
- Residence card of a family member of a European Union citizen(Form EX19)
- Authorization and renewal of temporary residence due to 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 persons
- Document Letter of Invitation
- Authorization of registration of undocumented persons
- Exceptional entry authorisation
- Exceptional authorisation for a short stay
- Visa processing transit/stay at the border
- Refusal of entry to Spain
- Expulsion of foreigners
- Penalizing Foreigners
- Foreigner Tax
- Documentation and Information