Everything you need to know before your move to Spain.
We brought two Dutch cars to Spain and registered both ourselves, no gestor. It took a summer of appointments, Google Translate and a private parking space, and it was a lot less scary than it looked.
The digital certificate turned out to be the key to every Spanish government website we needed. Getting mine took an online request and a short visit to the tax office, and the download email arrived before I’d left the building.
The paperwork step that felt small but quietly unlocked everything after it - the NIE registration, the SIP cards, our son's school place.
Getting your NIE in Spain turned out to be two separate errands, not one: the number itself, and later the green card that proves you're registered. Here's how both went for us.
Opening a bank account in Spain sounded like one of those jobs that might swallow a whole week. It turned out to be very doable with passports, Google Translate, and a patient branch visit, so I’ve written up what we’d do again.
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