The Spanish authorities has proposed a mutual work visa exemption scheme with the United Kingdom in a bid to bypass post-Brexit forms and increase financial relations between the 2 nations.
The Spanish authorities has proposed a visa exemption scheme for sure expert staff on brief visits to the UK.
This is in keeping with the Spanish Secretary of State for Trade, Amparo López Senovilla, who was in London on Wednesday for an occasion hosted by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in London.
“Bringing in staff to offer providers is troublesome, it is an impediment that we wish to take away and we’re working bilaterally with the British authorities to permit expert staff to be introduced in to offer providers within the United Kingdom,” mentioned López.
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The proposals goal to iron out post-Brexit forms that limits Spanish corporations sending their employees to the U.Okay. for brief intervals. For many sectors, workers, no matter how lengthy they’ll spend within the nation, should enter the U.Okay. on a sponsored visa such because the Skilled Worker or Temporary Worker visa, which entails each a time and monetary funding from corporations.
“They (the British) have a sponsorship system, which we take into account to be burdensome for our corporations. We have agreed to work on and search sure similarities with a method that has simply been accepted by the Spanish authorities: a visa exemption for stays of lower than 90 days for the supply of providers,” he added.
Visa specialists Visa HQ be aware that “the scheme would enable certified professionals to ship providers for as much as 90 days while not having a sponsor-based visa, aligning with the Mode 4 service-deliverer exemption just lately embedded in Spain’s revised Immigration Regulations.”
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Spain seemingly desires the exemption to be two-way: “We have proposed this method as one thing that the British authorities might provide in the same approach, and they’re learning it,” López defined.
Brits who weren’t dwelling in Spain earlier than Brexit have to use for a residency visa in the event that they wish to reside in Spain, identical to some other non-EU citizen. Spanish authorities information reveals that as of September 2025, simply over 24,000 Britons maintain Spanish residency by means of visas such because the non-lucrative visa or the digital nomad visa.
Immigration and workforce are among the foremost issues for Spanish corporations working within the UK.
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Many complain that there is no such thing as a approach to carry their executives over for brief stays with no visa.
The UK has explored bespoke migration offers with particular person nations up to now, reminiscent of with Hong Kong and Singapore, however doing so with Spain, an EU and Schengen Zone member, can be way more troublesome legally and politically talking.
Despite a small decline just lately, the UK stays the second largest vacation spot for Spanish funding worldwide, behind the United States, with a cumulative quantity of €83 billion in 2023, equal to 13.1 p.c of the entire invested by Spanish corporations overseas.
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