Arraigo sociolaboral for €440, fully online.

Yes, as an employee. Article 130.5 of the Immigration Regulation, as amended by Royal Decree 316/2026, states that once the application is admitted for processing and until the procedure is decided, the applicant is provisionally allowed to reside and work as an employee, and the notice starting the procedure says so. It covers employed work only: registering as self-employed comes with the granted permit (art. 131). One catch at the end: once granted, the permit's effect is conditional on being registered with Social Security within one month of notification.

Article 126.b) of the Immigration Regulation requires continuous presence in Spain for at least the 2 years before the application. The regulation sets no specific number of tolerated days abroad, so any absence is assessed within the file; in practice presence is evidenced through the historical padrón certificate. Request it early and check it has no gaps. If you were an international protection applicant, the time that application was pending does not count.

Booka's fee covers document review, case preparation, filing and follow-up until the decision. Official fees are paid by you directly to the administration: the 790-052 arraigo fee is 38,28 € (as of 2026) and the 790-012 TIE fee is separate.

Records are required from every country where you lived during the five years before you entered Spain — that is the exact wording of art. 126.d), not «the last five years» — and not only your nationality. They are not required from a third country if you have been continuously present in Spain for the last 5 years, or if you already evidenced this in an earlier application within that period and have not left since. An entry in the police report is not an automatic refusal either: article 130.2 requires a case-by-case assessment.

The maximum period to notify a decision is 3 months from the day after the application enters the register of the competent body (seventh additional provision of the Regulation). If those 3 months pass with no notification, silence is negative: the application is deemed refused (eighth additional provision, referring to the first additional provision of Organic Law 4/2000). That does not close the case — it opens the appeal window.

The decision ends the administrative route (ninth additional provision of the Regulation), so there are two paths. One: an optional appeal (reposición) before the same body within 1 month if the refusal is express (arts. 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015); if you file it, you cannot go to court until it is decided or deemed refused. Two: a direct judicial appeal, within 2 months from the day after notification, or 6 months where there was only silence (art. 46.1 of Law 29/1998). These are short, non-extendable deadlines.

The notification sets the deadline and it cannot exceed 15 days (art. 130.3 of the Regulation). If you miss it you are deemed to have withdrawn and the file is closed — not refused, closed, which means starting again. That is why we review the complete file before filing.

No. Since the Royal Decree 316/2026 reform, article 126.h) requires that you do not hold a stay or residence permit and are not a party to another procedure for granting, extending, renewing or modifying one. An open case has to be resolved first.

One year (art. 132.1 of the Regulation). Once granted it allows employed and self-employed work with no geographic or occupational limit (art. 131). To extend it, art. 132.2.a) requires evidence of active job-seeking and registration with the public employment service, unless justified circumstances prevent access to work, such as illness, disability or having reached legal retirement age. The extension is requested in the two months before expiry (art. 132.3).

Yes, with no interest or surcharge: the total is identical either way. The first half opens your case and starts the document review; the second is paid when we file your application — if we have not filed, you do not pay it. You request it from your case file and someone from the team confirms it within 24 working hours.

No: Booka's fee covers review, preparation, filing and follow-up. Government fees are paid directly to the administration, and we tell you which ones apply and when inside your case file.