Residency timeline.

Swimmer57 wrote on Wed Aug 12, 2026 1:02pm:

I was in the same boat, over 90 days, waiting for my application as a family member of an EU citizen to get processed. I got my appointment eventually. As long as you and your wife don't leave the country in the meantime, you should be ok

Tone57 wrote on Wed Aug 12, 2026 12:01pm:

Hello everyone, we have been in Spain a little over 3 months, my wife is Irish and got her residency straight away. I am UK and applied in January this year but have heard nothing now I am over my 90 days . When I contact the solicitors who are handling the application they just tell me that it i...

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...s out of their control after the application has been submitted and to wait . I have a copy of the application so I believe I can stay in Spain without penalty while my application is processed. I was wondering if anyone could maybe shed a little light on timeframe. Could the amnesty be delaying the process ? Thanks.

Tone57 wrote on Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:43pm:

Sun lawyers (relocation team) they’ve been very good so far talking us through the process which wasn’t straightforward. I take their point that once the application is submitted it is out of their hands also giving amnesty to a million illegals is bound to create a bottleneck. Can’t imagin...

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...e what difference another solicitor would make. Probably counter productive. 

Stephanie86 wrote on Thu Aug 13, 2026 1:20pm:

I would only point out that the majority of  these ‘million illegals’ are in fact from Latin America, therefore speak Spanish as their native language and that many of them have been here for many years.

TonySmith wrote on Thu Aug 13, 2026 7:23pm:

So what exactly is your point?. 

A person speaking spanish and living here illegally is still an illegal immigrant.

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And it is not so much the last 1.3million granted an amnesty but the next  2million progressing through Africa at the moment to force entry and try to force another amnesty