A 12-page guide, a tax commentary, a document checklist with a cost estimator, an employer letter you can hand to HR, and a completed A1 application to copy from. Here is every file and what it is for.
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| File | Format | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| The comprehensive guide to the DNV | PDF, 12 pages | Eligibility, both routes (London consulate and UGE-CE in-country), the document pack, a month-by-month sequence, a worked sworn-translation quote, getting an NIE from the UK, the S1 catch-22, Cl@ve, banking and padrón, and a list of every link you need. |
| Tax commentary | PDF, 5 pages | The UK Statutory Residence Test and its five ties, the P85 and an NT tax code (or reclaiming PAYE instead), Spanish IRPF, the Beckham Law and the Form 149 deadline, Modelo 720 and 721, and the UK–Spain treaty. |
| Document checklist and cost estimator | .xlsx (4 sheets) and PDF (4 pages) | Every document with its translation and apostille status, the income threshold, a cost estimator you can edit, and the reasons applications get rejected. |
| Employer reference letter template | .docx | Eight numbered sections ready to hand to HR: company details, duties, salary in euros, express authorisation to work from Spain, a permanent-establishment section built on the V0066-22 fact pattern, Rome I working-time and recall clauses, and the A1 and NT-code position. |
| Declaración responsable | PDF, 1 page, Spanish | The five-year no-criminal-record declaration, ready to fill in and sign. |
| A1 form answers | 4 screenshots | A fully completed CA3822 (the employee’s A1 application) from the Government Gateway, with personal details redacted. |
It does not include a separate contract addendum. The wording for one is in sections 5 and 6 of the employer letter, and HR can lift it across. It does not include screenshots of the employer’s CA3821; the guide and the A1 page explain that one.
You are a UK employee on PAYE, working for a UK company that is more than a year old, and you want to keep that job while living in Spain. This is the case the whole pack is written around.
You are a freelancer or autónomo, you work for a Spanish company, or you are not a UK national. Much of the visa mechanics still apply, but the letter, the A1 material and the tax route are built for the UK employee.
Most of the explanations are on this site and always will be: the guide, the A1 certificate, what the employer letter must say, the two routes and costs. For one concrete example of the detail in the pack, read the itemised 43-page translation quote. The free-versus-pack table shows exactly where the line falls.
A 12-page guide, a 5-page tax commentary, a document checklist and cost estimator (.xlsx and PDF), an employer reference letter template (.docx), a Spanish-language declaracion responsable for the criminal-record declaration, and screenshots of a completed CA3822 A1 application.
No. It is written for a UK employee of a UK company who is keeping that job. Freelancers and autonomos face a different route, although much of the visa mechanics still applies.
Not as a separate document. The employer letter template carries a permanent-establishment section built on the V0066-22 fact pattern and Rome I working-time and recall clauses, written so HR can lift them into a contract side-letter.
Yes. When thresholds, fees or UGE-CE practice change the pack is republished and the new version is available through your Gumroad library. The site changelog lists each change with its date.
No. It is information to help you prepare. For the high-stakes decisions, such as the employer letter wording, the Beckham Law election or permanent-establishment risk, take advice from a Spanish immigration lawyer or tax adviser.