Spainlander We do not hand you a plan and wish you luck. We call every school about the exact year group each of your children needs, and only the ones that confirm a place go on your list. From there you choose how much we take on: the decision, the filing, or the whole arrival. Four Shortlists a month, or one Landing and one Application.
Our guarantee
At every level we guarantee our own work, name the refund before you pay, and never promise a decision that is not ours.
We don't hand you a PDF and wish you luck. We file the applications ourselves, and on The Landing we are at the appointments with you.
Why Valencia
Schools, healthcare, neighborhoods, cost, safety, and daily rhythm all change the landing plan. See why we guide families toward Valencia with eyes open.
We connect visas, schools, neighborhoods, healthcare and timing into one plan for everyday life in Valencia.
We call every school and ask about the exact year group each of your children needs. Only the ones that confirm availability go on your list, with the dated application calendar working backwards from your landing date.
Give us your documents by the agreed date and we submit your applications through the correct channel before the deadline, with a receipt in your hands.
On The Landing we book the padrón, NIE and healthcare appointments, prepare the paperwork and go with you: to translate, to know how that office works, and to answer on the spot. On the other plans we prepare you to walk in ready.
We landed with three children, aged seven, five and two, and discovered that Spain does not place them the way we assumed. Second grade is not second grade here, and the year group a child enters is decided by the calendar year they were born in, not by the school year they are finishing. That is the first thing we check for every family, because it is the first thing we got wrong ourselves.
Spainlander is the resource we wish we'd had when we landed. It replaces anxiety with a clear, professional itinerary, written by a family who already did the bureaucracy and the school search.
Why us
We are not describing a process we read about. We made every one of these mistakes on our own family first.
Registered in four different municipalities. The first in Madrid, knowing nobody and nothing about the system. Three more around Valencia, where the process changes from one town hall to the next.
Our three children went through the concertado system first, then moved to a fully private school. We made that decision with our own family before we made it with anyone else's.
We own and manage them, so we know exactly how a Spanish landlord reads a foreign tenant with no local contract and no Spanish payslip.
Every level starts with the same decision. What changes is how much of the work, the uncertainty and the chasing we take off your family.
Final price. Taxes included where they apply.
Includes up to two children. Additional children €250 each.
In seven days you know which education route fits your children, which schools are worth an application, and which dates govern your arrival. In August the school offices are shut, so we do the mapping and the calendar first and call the day they reopen - and we tell you that date before you pay.
Not included
We call the schools to confirm availability for your year groups. We do not apply to them for you, we do not represent you before them, and we do not track your files. That is The Application.
Includes up to two children. Additional children €350 each, because a third child is a third set of filings and its own document set.
Your school decision becomes applications that are prepared properly, filed inside the window, and followed until there is an answer.
Not included
We do not promise a place: schools allocate places, not us. At this level you supply your documents, attend your own school interviews and appointments, and make the payments only a parent can make. We act for you at a distance. A day booked with you on the ground is €450 — and one day does not produce a padrón, a NIE and a SIP, because those are separate appointments at separate offices and the waiting time is the appointment system’s, not ours. Being there through the whole sequence is what The Landing adds. More than three schools, a second cycle or longer follow-up is priced separately.
Two children, three schools, one municipality. Additional children €350 each, additional municipality €900, days attended in person €450.
We take responsibility for coordinating your school, housing, administrative and arrival workflow, so your first weeks run on a sequence instead of on your evenings. And if you have already chosen the school, or already have a place, this level does not change: the NIE, the padrón, the SIP, the housing and the appointments are still ahead of you, and they are what we do with you.
Not included
€6,900 covers two children, three schools and one municipality. The written scope states the rest: how many people in the family, how many children applying, how many schools, how many municipalities, how long we accompany you, how many appointments we attend in person, and whether the housing search and viewings are included. On housing we search and coordinate; we are not your estate agent. We do not negotiate the contract in law, hold your deposit, sign for you, guarantee a landlord accepts you, inspect a property, or give a legal opinion on a lease: your agent and your own lawyer do that, engaged and paid separately, and buying rather than renting is quoted as its own module. Being with you at an appointment is accompaniment and practical support, not representation, and not a guarantee that a body will decide or move at any particular speed. Legal, immigration and tax work stays with the qualified advisers we introduce. Where a power of attorney is needed it is granted to them or used by you, never by us. Travel outside Valencia capital is quoted with the scope, and third-party costs are yours.
Quoted against a written scope and invoiced 40 / 40 / 20. The call is where the scope is set, and it costs nothing.
Five questions. We tell you which admission route governs your family, which window applies to you and how many weeks you have left.
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The Shortlist is delivered within 7 days of your call. Longer plans follow the schedule agreed on that call.
Partly, and you will probably use one anyway. A gestor files what you bring them. They do not choose your neighbourhood, they do not know which school has a place in your daughter's year group, and they do not attend the appointment with you. A solicitor handles your visa, which is genuinely their work and not ours, and we introduce you to ours. What neither of them does is help you decide where your family should live, which is the decision everything else depends on.
Yes, and some families should. Everything we know is learnable. It took us four years and three municipalities to learn it, and we made the mistakes on our own children. If you have time and no hard deadline, do it yourself. If your children need places in September, the calendar is the problem, not the research.
Because the school admission window does not move to match your visa timeline. Families who wait for visa certainty often end up applying for the following academic year.
Each child is assessed and applied for separately. Schools allocate places by year group, so availability can differ between your children even at the same school. We build the shortlist around schools with space across all of your year groups, which is a much harder filter than a list of good schools, and we tell you where the compromises are.
If you apply to every school we agree on and accept any suitable place offered, we run the next admissions cycle with you at no charge, up to twelve hours for the family.
No. We provide administrative coordination and relocation support. Immigration, tax and legal advice comes from qualified professionals we introduce you to.
It depends on the route, and the two answers are far apart. Publico or concertado: twelve months, because the statutory round opens once a year and closes. Private or international at a high-demand entry point - Reception, Year 1, Year 7 or Year 12 - eighteen months, because the popular schools place one to three years out. Everything else, visa appointments, apostilles, NIE and housing, fits inside those windows rather than setting them.
The main family-relevant routes are the Non-Lucrative Visa, the Digital Nomad Visa, and EU citizen registration. The right one depends on your income source and nationality, which the plan maps to your situation.
Costs vary by family size, neighbourhood, and schooling choice. Our Valencia cost-of-living guides break down rent, schools, and monthly budgets so you can estimate before you commit.
Yes. School timing, child ages, and proximity are central to the plan, and our guides compare British, American, IB, and bilingual options across Valencia.
Our focus is families relocating to Valencia, including couples planning for children soon. Single professionals may find the plans useful but they are optimized for family decisions.
We cover the main family-relevant routes: Non-Lucrative, Digital Nomad, and EU citizen registration. We outline the right path based on your situation.