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guest

Wonderful advice, we are looking to move in the next 6 months and this is very helpful

guest

Wonderful article! Just want to add- make arrangements to have your US mail forwarded before you leave. There are great mail forwarding companies that make life much easier by sending mail and shopping (miracle whip and maple syrup- among others) to you easily. We use one called usglobalmail.com

Jingles

I found this very helpful, we are in the process of down sizing our belongings and hopefully moving to Spain by nest August or September of 2015. We are researching the process of getting the residence visa thru the embassy/consulate of Spain in Chicago, since we are located in the Midwest. We were wondering how long the interview process is and if they are pretty in depth with the interview. We do not have anyone we know that resides in Spain to invite us over, so hopefully being retired and wanting to enjoy everything Spain has to offer will be sufficient explanation as to why we want to live there. Any suggestions you can offer on the application process would be very helpful