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How easy is it to move and can we keep an English bank account

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:28pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 6:29pm

how easy is it to move from where to where?  what is your background? where do you want to move to? may be easier to get answers if provide more information.  As for bank accounts depends on who you bank with so far Barclays have withdrawn accounts for ex pats no others have followed suit yet.  

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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:25pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:25pm

Alicia 11 wrote on Sun Jul 10, 2022 6:29pm:

how easy is it to move from where to where?  what is your background? where do you want to move to? may be easier to get answers if provide more information.  As for bank accounts depends on who you bank with so far Barclays have withdrawn accounts for ex pats no others have followed su...

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Hi. Almeria, palomares/mojacar, that area.   Moving from England.   Just wondered how easy it is and if I can keep working for my English employer.  I bank with natwest

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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:38pm

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Sue001 wrote on Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:25pm:

Hi. Almeria, palomares/mojacar, that area.   Moving from England.   Just wondered how easy it is and if I can keep working for my English employer.  I bank with natwest

No, you will not be able to keep working.  The Digital nomad visa which would permit that is still not available and there is as yet no timescale as to when it will be.

That means coming over on a Non Lucrative Visa, and as you may guess from the name, this means no remunerated employment of any kind whatsoever.  The job you have at the moment would certainly not qualify you for a work permit.

Once you have committed to migrating here (for that is what it is - migration), as long as you have all your paperwork in order and meet the financial requirements, the process appears to be quite straightforward and not a long, drawn out affair

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:52am

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:52am

DarioMartin wrote on Sun Jul 10, 2022 10:38pm:

No, you will not be able to keep working.  The Digital nomad visa which would permit that is still not available and there is as yet no timescale as to when it will be.

That means coming over on a Non Lucrative Visa, and as you may guess from the name, this means no remunerated employment of any kind whatsoever.  The job you have at the moment would certainly not qualify you for a work permit....

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Once you have committed to migrating here (for that is what it is - migration), as long as you have all your paperwork in order and meet the financial requirements, the process appears to be quite straightforward and not a long, drawn out affair

Thank you.  I wasn't depending on working so will have to give up. Not an issue.  I can give up work.   My partner however, will need a job, will he be able to get 1 easily over there, preferably delivery work?  

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:33am

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Sue001 wrote on Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:52am:

Thank you.  I wasn't depending on working so will have to give up. Not an issue.  I can give up work.   My partner however, will need a job, will he be able to get 1 easily over there, preferably delivery work?  

Unless he can get a work permit, or holds an Irish / other EU country passport, no.

If he holds an Irish / other EU Country passport, you can safely ignore the information that follows on Work Permits, because as an EU citizen it wouldn’t apply to him.  He would have the right of freedom of movement.

If he is on a UK passport, the only way he can work is if he obtains a work permit.  This entails having a skill that is on Spains occupation shortage list, then finding a company in Spain that is prepared to say they cannot find his skills anywhere else in the EU and are prepared to offer him a contract and apply for his work permit (as it is the employer who must apply)

The second method is to apply for a work permit as self-employed, BUT … he will need a solid business plan, and pre-sales invoices / letters of intent from customers here in Spain.

Delivery work is not on skills shortage list unfortunately, and unless he speaks and understands reasonable Spanish, he’ll find delivery work very difficult to break into in any event.

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