Initial authorisation of temporary residence and self-employment
Route status
Open to new applications under the rules recorded below.
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta propia as of 2025-05-01[1][2] |
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| Official name (English) | Initial authorisation of temporary residence and self-employment as of 2025-05-01[1] English title used on the ministry's own English-language information sheet. |
| Legal basis | Ley Orgánica 4/2000, arts. 25 bis, 36 y 37; Real Decreto 1155/2024, arts. 82-85 as of 2025-05-01[1][2] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2025-05-01[1] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2025-05-01[2] Sheet 14 requires that the applicant is not a citizen of an EU/EEA state or Switzerland, nor a family member covered by the Union regime. Switzerland is not a bloc vocabulary value and is recorded in this note. |
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| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1][2] No criminal record in Spain or in the countries of residence over the previous five years, and no threat to public order, security or health. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 1 year as of 2025-05-01[1][2] |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1] |
| Work rights | self-employment only as of 2025-05-01[1][2] The authorisation is for residence and self-employed work in the specified sector and territory. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
Requirements
| Minimum capital | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value The condition is that 'the planned investment is sufficient' together with its impact on job creation, assessed case by case. There is no stated monetary threshold, so neither a money amount nor a relative amount describes the rule; recording a figure would invent one. |
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| Business plan required | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1][2] Evidence of the planned investment and its employment impact, and of compliance with the requirements for opening and operating the projected activity, is required. |
| Endorsement required | No as of 2025-05-01[2] |
| Innovation criterion | No as of 2025-05-01[2] |
| Own means requirement | Not established from a qualifying source The sheet requires sufficient planned investment but states no separate maintenance-means figure and no IPREM multiple. |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2025-05-01[1][2] Submitted in person at the Spanish consular office of the applicant's place of residence. |
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| Statutory processing time | 3 months as of 2025-05-01[1][2] Three months from entry in the register of the competent body. Administrative silence is negative on this route: failure to notify within the period means the application is deemed rejected. This is the opposite of the positive-silence rule that applies to the Ley 14/2013 entrepreneur route. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 4 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 4 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2025-05-01 |
| Newest as-of date | 2025-05-01 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-11 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Hoja 14 – Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta propia
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-01 · Accessed 2026-08-06 - [2] Hoja informativa 14 – Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta propia (PDF)
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-01 · Accessed 2026-08-06 - [3] Hoja 49 – Autorización de residencia de larga duración nacional
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-01 · Accessed 2026-08-06 - [4] Hoja 50 – Autorización de residencia de larga duración UE
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-01 · Accessed 2026-08-06