They paid a lawyer in Barcelona who promised to get them the residence permits within 10 working days, which sounds difficult for the Mrs, I´m curious to see how it goes.
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Well, they went nowhere in 10 working days, actually it seems in Barcelona things are worse than in Madrid as they haven´t even managed to get an appointment for the kids who are EU citizens ( disclaimer 1 : that´s info from LuisHK´Mrs who has been discussing with the other couple Mrs, and ime there are often things lost in translation in similar cases. Disclaimer 2: this couple is now on business overseas, not sure how hard they tried to get the appointment )
But happy to say in Madrid I managed to get the kids residence permits just before school started and an appointment for non EU citizen Mrs around the same time, even managed to get all her application documents properly for the appointment, which is not exactly as easy as reading the requirements online, so she got her temporary residence permit, which includes a couple of numbers necessary for a bunch of stuff including public health insurance if I understood properly. It is supposed to take up to 3 months for the application to be accepted than to be able to take another appointment at the police and go get her 5 years residence permit but hopefully (!) we are through the trickiest part of the process.
About lawyers, poor news again, I forwarded a few questions to the young one, who is allegedly specialized in tax rather than immigration but was assigned to me by the law firm, he is supposed to help out and contact the right department when needed. Actually he doesn´t even seem to be able to read documents in Spanish, he came out with 2 pieces of advice from reading the application requirements that were both BS. Talk about useless, happy after going through the process for myself than the kids I was confident enough to decide his advice was best ignored, but were I not, I would have wasted more time and money. Would be hard pressed to advise any lawyer or gestor around here.
Again the process is easier for EU citizens than non EU citizens.
Worth of note, for soccer fans, La Moraleja is the residence area´of many Madrid soccer players, I needed help at the coffee shop as besides Modric, Benzema or Zidane, I would probably recognize none of them, but some of those guys´ kids are Junior´s school and classmates, now let´s hope the boy won´t fall into heroin before his 12th birthday as Blueraincap warned will happen if he keeps on playing outside with migrant kids.
if one could use OP´s feedback about Spain as toilet paper, we´d be on the way to save the Amazon.
It´s no secret soccer players live and send their kids to school in that area btw. I`m not crazy about soccer but find it pretty cool, and being elected the best player in the most popular sports on earth blows my mind.
