Your residence modification is coming up
You lived on a digital nomad permit, often not even in Spain, and nobody paid your social security contributions. Or you registered as autónomo a couple of months ago. At a modification or a renewal your contributions and tax record are checked, and every empty month shows
50% off the consultation from 13 to 16 November
None of them is a ghost. All of them show up in your file
A freelancer’s digital nomad permit rests on social security registration. No registration means no contributions, and at the modification that is the first thing seen. Employed by a foreign company? Then you need your employer’s registration in Spain or a certificate of coverage from your country, or it is the same gap
Your contribution record (vida laboral) shows when you registered. The months between the permit approval and the registration are a question you will have to answer
To renew a digital nomad permit, your income has to show up in your tax returns. If you registered as autónomo but did not pay taxes, or declared only part of your income, on paper you earn less than the renewal requires
Count the months since your permit was approved during which you were not registered as autónomo
Usually €200–600, depending on your income
Contributions for those months, paid late
€4,200
contributions + a surcharge of up to 20%
Empty months in your contribution record
10
This is what the immigration office will see
A rough estimate: whether and from when you owe contributions depends on your case. Late contributions carry a surcharge of up to 20% (art. 30 of the General Social Security Law)
−50%
30-minute consultationwith an immigration expert
€20€4013–16 November
Request your contribution record (informe de vida laboral) from social security: it shows every month you were registered, or were not
Get the certificates from Hacienda and social security that you owe nothing (certificado de estar al corriente). The office checks this anyway
Register now, pay contributions for past months, file missing tax returns: the order and the dates depend on your case. Getting it wrong costs more than asking
A file with a gap is not hopeless when it goes in with the right documents and a clear account of what happened
Late autónomo registration, contributions for past months, a life split between two countries: our immigration experts take on cases like these every week
Tell us what happened. We will tell you what to fix before you apply and which path to take
€20€40
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For cases where autónomo registration came late, the activity or employer changed, or taxes were not paid in full
€1090
Switching from a digital nomad permit to self-employment: business plan, documents, application
€790
