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Living between two countries

Clear guides on paperwork, money and security for people who moved from Latin America to Europe. Written by the team that runs the platform.

The NIE is your foreigner number in Spain and the TIE is the card that proves your legal status if you stay longer than six months. What each one…

What Spanish nationality by residence asks of people born in Argentina, Peru or Colombia: two years of legal residence, the CCSE exam, apostilled…

When a foreign university degree has to be homologated in Spain and when equivalence is enough, which documents you need, what the fee is, and how…

Empadronamiento is signing up on your town hall's padrón, the local register of residents. Everyone living in Spain must do it, you can do it…

Since Law 74/2025, Italian citizenship by descent requires meeting an Article 3-bis condition if you were born abroad and hold another citizenship.…

The five types of arraigo under Spain's Immigration Regulation, shared and specific requirements, documents, where to file and whether you can work…

The first payout is best configured while there is no rush. What to settle, and which of your two CCIs goes in the form.

A first payout from Colombia asks for more details than most people have at hand. Where each one lives, and which one is accepted wrong without…

Your first proposal gets accepted and your profile is half filled in. What to settle beforehand, because afterwards the corrections arrive too late.

A recurring payment lets you stop improvising. In Peru that includes a decision that repeats: which account it lands in, the soles one or the dollar…

On payroll the destination is set up once and used every month. If a field is wrong, the error repeats too, until somebody looks at it.

A recurring payment can be planned: you know when it lands and you can choose when to convert. What you decide once, and what you decide every month.

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