How do I renew Spain's digital nomad residence permit?

Checked on 2026-10-25

Spain renews the international telework residence permit for two years at a time, as long as the conditions that got you the permit still hold. You apply electronically. Filing extends your permit until the decision, and the law also accepts an application up to 90 days after expiry, though a penalty procedure can then follow.

Key facts

What	The law says	Source
Renewal period	2 years each time	Ley 14/2013, arts. 74 quinquies.3, 76.3
Condition	The conditions that gave you the permit must still be met	Ley 14/2013, arts. 74 quinquies.3, 76.3
How	Electronically; the Directorate-General for Migration may ask for reports on whether the conditions still hold	Ley 14/2013, art. 76.3
While you wait	Filing extends the permit until the decision	Ley 14/2013, art. 76.3
Late filing	Up to 90 days after the permit ends still extends it, but a penalty procedure may be opened	Ley 14/2013, art. 76.3
Coming from the visa	Apply for the residence permit in the 60 calendar days before the visa expires	Ley 14/2013, art. 74 quater.3
ID card	A permit valid for more than six months needs a foreigner identity card (TIE)	Ley 14/2013, art. 76.2

The timeline

You start either with the international telework visa (up to one year) or with the residence permit (up to three years). If you came on the visa, the law lets you apply for the residence permit in the 60 calendar days before the visa expires, as long as the conditions still hold (Ley 14/2013, art. 74 quater.3). After the residence permit, each renewal is for two years (arts. 74 quinquies.3, 76.3).

Filing on time, or late

The law says filing the renewal extends the validity of your permit until the decision. It gives the same effect to an application filed in the 90 days after the previous permit ended, but adds that this is without prejudice to opening a sanction procedure (art. 76.3).

What “conditions still hold” means

The renewal articles do not list the conditions again; they refer to the conditions that gave you the right to the permit (art. 76.3). For the international telework permit, those are set out in arts. 62.3 (general requirements), 74 bis (remote work for companies outside Spain, qualification or experience) and 74 ter (company activity and the remote-work relationship).

A refused renewal can be appealed with a recurso de alzada (Ley 14/2013, art. 76.1).

Sources

Ley 14/2013, de 27 de septiembre, de apoyo a los emprendedores, arts. 74 quater, 74 quinquies and 76 (consolidated text, BOE) checked 2026-10-25

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