Free tools

Instruments for the move.

Eleven instruments built on the same rules I file under: the 2026 income threshold, the UGE’s twenty working days, the Schengen window, Spain’s tax scale.  Each one takes your numbers and strikes an answer you can plan around, before you talk to anyone.

Documents

Document checklist generator

Your exact list: the right criminal-record certificate for where you lived, the apostille chain, the validity clocks, and the traps that get generic lists sent back.

Build my checklist

Documents · free review

Employer letter check

HR wrote the letter.  Paste it here and I read it against the UGE’s list within 24 hours, before it costs you a filing.  Free, no commitment.

Have it read

Eligibility

Income threshold checker

The bar rises with every person who applies with you.  Enter your household and income and see the margin, or the shortfall, against the 2026 figures.

Check my income

Timeline

Approval date estimator

The honest timeline, not the marketing one.  Enter when you can start and see a phase-by-phase estimate of when the permit could arrive.

Estimate my date

Documents

Employer letter generator

The letter that sinks more files than any other document.  Fill in the boxes and get a first draft with every element the Ministry’s list asks for.

Draft my letter

Timing

Schengen days counter

Log your trips and see how many of your 90 days you have used in the rolling 180, how many remain, and when the count next drops.

Count my days

Money

Gross-to-net salary calculator

Your real take-home after Spanish income tax and Social Security, for employees and autónomos, with the Beckham Law alternative alongside.

Calculate take-home

Money

Beckham Law calculator

What the flat 24% saves against the progressive scale that reaches 47%, each year and over the six the regime runs, and who can actually opt in.

See the saving

Living

Cost of living, city by city

Twelve cities on rent, groceries, transport, coworking and health cover, for a solo, couple or family budget, against the visa’s income bar.

Compare cities

Autónomos

IAE epígrafe finder

The activity codes that come up for U.S. remote workers registering as autónomos, quoted as they read in the tariffs, with Section 1 and Section 2 explained.

Find my code

Reading

Guide finder

More than a hundred guides on this site.  Type a word, your employer, your document, your situation, and jump to the one that covers it.

Search the guides

Estimates for planning, not legal advice. For a written assessment of your own situation, use the free eligibility check.

Numbers are a start.  A file is a judgement.

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