Moving to Spain.
Everything else,
we handle.

The empadronamiento comes first. It is the registration of your address with the town hall, and it works as the key to everything else: without it you cannot apply for the TIE, get a health card or enrol your children in school. The usual sequence is empadronamiento → NIE/TIE → social security number → bank account → tax registration, though it varies with your visa and your nationality. Immigration appointments are requested through the Public Administration electronic portal.

There is no single answer, because it depends on factors that neither you nor your adviser control. The three that weigh most are your nationality — the EU procedure is considerably shorter than the non-EU one — the availability of appointments at the Immigration office in your province, which varies a great deal from one to another, and how many procedures you need to chain together: a NIE is not the same as a family move involving school places and degree recognition. What we can tell you from the outset is which procedures apply to you, in what order they go, and which ones you can start from your own country.

It is a special tax regime that lets you be taxed as a non-resident even though you live in Spain. It is set out in article 93 of Law 35/2006 and the Tax Agency explains it in its manual on the special regime for inpatriates. The rate is 24 % on Spanish-source income up to €600,000, and 47 % on the excess above that. It lasts six years in total. The key requirement: you must not have been a Spanish tax resident in the five preceding years. It mainly suits higher earners: below a certain level, the general regime can work out better.

Yes, and some people do. What we add is not access to anything exclusive — all of these procedures are public — but knowing which ones apply to you and in what order, reviewing your file before it is submitted so it does not come back, tracking the appointments and going with you on the day. If after reading your plan you would rather carry on alone, it is yours to keep.

Quite the opposite, it is usually a good moment. Some steps can only be taken from your country of origin — having documents apostilled, or applying for the NIE at the consulate — and they get harder once you have travelled. Knowing which ones they are before you move is the part of the plan that can save you most, and you do not need a fixed date for that.