Work Permit
Spain digital nomad visa: remote work
Residence for a third-country national to work remotely, using only electronic means, for companies outside Spain. From abroad, the consular visado para teletrabajo de carácter internacional (code TEL) is itself permission to reside and work remotely for at most one year (Ley 14/2013, art. 74 quater). A residence authorization cannot be filed from abroad. In Spain, someone already here legally, or whose visa has 60 days or less left, applies to UGE-CE; the Dirección General de Migraciones grants an authorization of at most three years, renewable for two-year periods while the conditions continue (arts. 74 quinquies and 76). An employment relationship may be only with the foreign company. A professional relationship may include Spanish clients up to 20 percent of the activity (art. 74 bis). The foreign relationship must already have lasted three months, and the foreign company must have been genuinely active for at least one year (art. 74 ter). Qualification is a degree from a recognised university, vocational programme, or business school, or three years of comparable experience (art. 74 bis). These pages do not state a long-term-residence outcome.
Source: Boletín Oficial del Estado · verified 2026-09-24