Spain: changes in £££ requirements? Non-EU civil partners?

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Hi there, I live in Thailand and hope to bring my Thai partner and twin girls to live in Spain for a year or so to exercise my treaty rights. I have been asking a few questions elsewhere and it seems that the requirements at the end of 90 days for EU and non-EU family members in Spain have become considerably more stringent than they were previously. However nobody there knows in what way they have changed.

Can anyone here shed light on the requirements to show you'll be self-sufficient in the event that no job materialises? We have about €8000 and should be able to boost that ourselves or get a loan from my folks to bolster it if required. Does the money need to be in a Spanish account?

On the other forum I was shot down for asking whether Spain accepts civil partnerships as akin to a spousal relationship - the person didn't give me an answer.. Does anyone here know?

Once before somebody pointed me to a really fantastic document which covered different countries' transposition of the 38/C directive and I bookmarked the link. However it no longer works. Could you direct me there again if the link works for you?

Many thanks

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Moved to Europe section.

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Once before somebody pointed me to a really fantastic document which covered different countries' transposition of the 38/C directive and I bookmarked the link. However it no longer works. Could you direct me there again if the link works for you?

I also noted that those links have become inactive. It could be that they are about to publish an update. In any event they are rather old.

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Hi there, I live in Thailand and hope to bring my Thai partner and twin girls to live in Spain for a year or so to exercise my treaty rights. I have been asking a few questions elsewhere and it seems that the requirements at the end of 90 days for EU and non-EU family members in Spain have become considerably more stringent than they were previously. However nobody there knows in what way they have changed.

The changes Spain made are allowed by the directive. Previously, Spain imposed no conditions on an EU national living in Spain, this is no longer the case.

A person needs to be a worker, self-sufficient person or student. If the latter two, needs to have health insurance.

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Spain does accept civil partnerships in principle, but it may involve quite a bit of paperwork.

A la pareja con la que mantenga una unión análoga a la conyugal inscrita en un registro público establecido a esos efectos en un Estado miembro de la Unión Europea o en un Estado parte en el Espacio Económico Europeo, que impida la posibilidad de dos registros simultáneos en dicho Estado, y siempre que no se haya cancelado dicha inscripción, lo que deberá ser suficientemente acreditado. Las situaciones de matrimonio e inscripción como pareja registrada se considerarán, en todo caso, incompatibles entre sí.

[Directive/2004/38/EC]

Spain is not presently a very easy place to find work. You might want to consider a different EU member state.