Visas

Before travelling to Spain, you’ll already have obtained your student visa at your nearest Spain Consulate in the United States. This visa usually expires between 60 to 90 days. For that reason, once you are in A Coruña you’ll have to extend the expiration date of your visa.

We’ll usually fulfill all these formalities during the welcoming and guidance days and the cultural advisor or the academic director will always go with you

Extension of the visa

First, you’ll need a registration certificate, that is, a document certifying you are living in Spain. For that reason:

After that, you’ll have to go to the Police (Álférez Provisional street, no. 3, near the port, Mondays to Fridays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) with the following documentation:

In case of any doubt, you can contact the academic director. 

It takes 40 days for the resident card to be issued. After you request it, the immigration service will give you a slip that you can use to temporarily live and travel within Spain.

While you don’t have the resident card, if you want to travel outside Spain, you’ll have to go to the immigration service (with your passport and a copy of the slip showing you requested the resident card) to ask for a "return authorization" that is issued in around 3 days. This authorization will enable you to travel abroad and be able to come back to Spain without any problems.


Take into account that the U.S. photos may be higher than the Spanish ones. What the police request is: “A recently taken full-face color photo of the applicant, 32 x 26 millimeters size, with a plain, clear and uniform background, the head fully uncovered (no hats, caps, etc.) and without sun glasses or any other garment preventing or making difficult the person's identification".