Moving to Alhaurin el Grande - Page 2

Hi,

Thank you to everyone who has replied.

We have now taken our case to both the Spanish and British Embassy’s - it seems we require a Green Residency Card in order to enter Spain and reach our new home.

This is in the hands of our Solicitor.

The Spanish Embassy have confirmed that September is pure speculation and was quoted in reference to likely tourist returns and that our situation is entirely separate.

However, everyone’s help on this site had promoted us to make appropriate enquiries to the people who are correctly informed.

Thank you all very much - Julie xxxx

Lovely!

I hope it goes smoothly for you and you get here without too much stress.

Best of luck.

More posts on here even today, with no fixed dates from the Spanish government anywhere. First thing has to be permission for international movement from the EU.

I also heard it to be September for UK and that was on spanish news 

Fake news Fiona15

HI, 

We hope to relocate to Spain in July. Can you still apply for residencia  at the moment? I didn't think we would be able to!

Hi, how wonderful that you are trying to get there too - good luck.  Whereabouts are you relocating to ?

We raised the whole issue with our Spanish Solicitor (who spoke directly to the Alhaurin Police), the Spanish Embassy in London and the British Consulate in Malaga but returned the same answer from them all - to get into Spain you must (currently) have a Green Residency Card to get a Green Residency Card you have to rock up in person - but you cannot rock up in person to get a Green Residency card because you cannot get in without one - we suggested couriering our original passports to our Solicitor who already had POA in place and can officially act on our behalf for all legal acts in Spain - he could then rock up with them and we could video link in from the UK to prove it’s us and answer any questions - Nope 29th century solutions are not allowed.

Upshot we are homeless, have no ability to move to our only worldwide home and will just have to wait..... I can wholly understand the stance for tourists but we’ve parted with 100’s of thousands and have self isolated for 7 weeks and would be happy to take a test to prove we are not importing the virus into the country.

Never mind, patience is a virtue - the rules may change by July....

Love and good luck

Julie xxx

Hi Hollyrosa23

Thank you for that, that is very helpful. I am going to go for residential at some point but was going to wait until I was actually living there. However, its good to know that, if need be, I can do it from here. I am in the same situation as you, my lawyer has POA. 

We have a bungalow in Villanueva del Trabuco and I can't wait to get there! You will have to let me know how it all goes. 

Take care 

Sandra

No worries Sandra and good luck ... it’s not a good place to be really but we have no choice so we just have to wait.

Our Solicitor is lining everything up for the Green Card residency for us - bank account, medical insurance, NIEs, Forms everything so it should, hopefully be a simple matter once we get there.

We have two dogs we are bringing with us and I don’t want to move them by air, crated in the hold they would panic - so we are driving down through France and Northern Spain - we will try to book out of the way gites as stop overs for social distancing and carry all our own food so we don’t need to shop - not how we’d dreamed hey !!  ..... So much for a leisurely holiday drive down.

Good Luck and all the best for a wonderful new life xxx

Julie xx

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would add my piece of information. I contacted my lawyer in Spain as we are in the process of getting residentia. She told me 'they are not open at the moment' whoever 'they' are. She said they may open again at the beginning of June. 

We are not in any rush, to be honest, as long as we get to spain in July. If this is not possible then we will go down the route or residencia to get there.