Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta ajena
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta ajena as of 2025-05-01[1] |
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| Official name (English) | Not established from a qualifying source No official English designation was found; the ministry's English pages carry a standing machine-translation disclaimer. |
| Legal basis | Ley Orgánica 4/2000, de 11 de enero, arts. 36, 38 y 40, y Real Decreto 1155/2024, de 19 de noviembre, arts. 72 a 79 (arts. 80 y 81 para la renovación) 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[1] The general immigration regime of Ley Orgánica 4/2000 applies to third-country nationals; EU/EEA and Swiss nationals and their family members fall under the EU-citizen regime instead. |
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| Minimum age | 16 as of 2025-05-01[1] The sheet describes the route as being for the hiring of a foreign worker over sixteen years of age. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | Not established from a qualifying source |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2025-05-01[2] |
| Renewal duration | 4 years as of 2025-05-01[2] Information sheet 13: the renewed residence and work authorisation runs for four years, unless a long-term residence authorisation is due instead. Renewal must be applied for in the two months before expiry or within the three months after it, and is subject to three-month processing with POSITIVE administrative silence. |
| Work rights | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value as of 2025-05-01[1][2] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2025-05-01[2][3] Information sheet 13 contemplates a long-term residence authorisation arising instead of a renewal, and the long-term residence sheets require five years of lawful continuous residence without excluding this route. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1] The employer or business owner files the application, personally or through a legally empowered representative. |
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| Labour-market test | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1] The national employment situation must permit the hiring. It does where the occupation appears in the catalogue of hard-to-fill occupations published quarterly by the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal; or where the employer proves difficulty filling the vacancy, by posting the offer on the Empléate portal and obtaining a public employment service report; or where the applicant is a national of a state with an international agreement, the sheet naming Chile and Peru; or where an exemption under art. 40 of Ley Orgánica 4/2000 applies. This is the principal structural difference between this route and the Ley 14/2013 international mobility routes. |
| Qualification requirement | regulated profession as of 2025-05-01[1] The applicant must hold the capability and, where applicable, the professional qualification legally required for the profession, duly homologated where relevant. The sheet states no general degree or experience alternative, so this is the only qualification condition recorded. It is not a degree requirement: it bites only where the occupation is itself regulated. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2025-05-01[1] |
| Job-search route | No as of 2025-05-01[1] |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2025-05-01[1] The employer files the authorisation application in Spain, but the worker must not be irregularly in Spanish territory, and once the authorisation is granted the worker applies for the visa at the Spanish consulate in their place of residence. In-country switching from another status is governed separately by Title XI of Real Decreto 1155/2024 and is not this route. |
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| Statutory processing time | 3 months as of 2025-05-01[1] Three months, with the application deemed REFUSED by administrative silence if no notification is made in that period. This is the opposite of the positive silence that applies to the Ley 14/2013 international mobility routes, and the opposite of the silence rule that applies on renewal of this same authorisation. |
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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 | 3 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 3 |
| 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 12 – Autorización inicial de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta ajena
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-01 · Accessed 2026-08-06 - [2] Hoja 13 – Renovación de la autorización de residencia temporal y trabajo por cuenta ajena
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