Form 790-107: how to pay the €166.50 from abroad

The processing fee is €166.50, corresponds to code 107 and is paid using form 790-107. It is the same fee whether you apply for homologación to a qualifying degree or for the declaration of academic-level equivalence: what changes between the two procedures is the process, not the amount.

The form is self-assessed: you generate it pre-filled with your details from the electronic office, obtain a document with its receipt number, pay it and then attach proof of payment to your application. That number is what links your payment to your file, so the bank slip on its own is not enough: the completed form must go with it.

This is the point almost nobody explains properly and the cause of most problems. In an international transfer, intermediary banks may deduct their charges from the amount sent. If you order €166.50 and twelve euros are deducted en route, €154.50 arrives in the destination account and the fee is incomplete. An incomplete payment does not count as paid: the file waits, and you will have to make up the difference with a second payment, its own receipt and its own delay.

The way to avoid it is to instruct your bank explicitly that all costs and charges are borne by you as the sender — the instruction known in international banking as «OUR» — so that the full €166.50 arrives. If your bank does not offer that option, the alternative is to send a margin above the amount to cover estimated charges: too much arriving does not block the file; too little does.

Keep the transfer receipt showing the amount actually credited. It is the evidence you will need if a discrepancy has to be cleared up later.

Five checks that take ten minutes and prevent months of a stalled file.