A few questions, no signup. This runs the same scheduler that builds a real plan, so what it shows you is the plan we would work to.
Each child is a second filing — reunification, which follows the first one being granted.
Applying from inside Spain adds the housing contract and the municipal registration, which can only be done there.
If so, that country has to certify you too. It is the longest lead time in the whole process and the one people find out about last.
Certificates are authenticated by the state that issued them. Same state means one mailer; different states mean one each.
A degree needs the registrar, then a notary, then the state — three steps where most people expect one.
Every document fits its own window. Started on its day, each one is done once and still good when you file.
The first 12 documents are in the base price. This is an estimate from your answers, not a quote — a person checks every plan before a box ships.
Some take weeks to come back. Some go stale after a few months. Some have to be authenticated before they can be translated. Start each one at its moment and it is done once: no second translation, no certificate ordered twice, nothing out of date on the day you file.
Each row is one document in a family of three’s plan, and each bar is the stretch in which it can start: late enough to still be good on filing day, early enough to be back in time. The plan picks a day inside every one of them, and the app tells you when it comes.
That is the whole job, and it is the part nobody should have to hold in their head. Bank statements go last, because they have to be the freshest thing in the file. Translation always comes after authentication, because the apostille is itself an English page.
Four steps and two mailers. This is what every document’s page looks like when you scan the code on its slot.
Request the document from whoever issues it.
Hague Convention authentication. Spain will not accept a foreign public document without one.
Translated by a traductor jurado, stamped and signed. Covers the apostille too.
We check the name spelling, the dates, the seal and the validity window before it goes in the box.
In the order the office wants it, ready to sign and submit.
Proves the parental relationship, with both parents named.
Two children born in two states means two Secretaries of State and two envelopes. Same-state siblings batch into one.
Which is why it is not the first thing you do. The schedule picks the window it has to land in.
Four families of office, and seven colors — an apostille mailer shares its family’s letter, so it is one print run, and takes the deeper shade. A household of three can have three birth certificates bound for three different states: three mailers, S-1, S-2, S-3, one color. When you are holding one, the only question is where it goes.
| Code | Family | Goes to | Return mailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-n | Federal | A federal office — the FBI, the IRS, the State Department's records desk. | not needed |
| F-n | Federal apostille | The US Department of State in Washington DC. Federally-issued documents only. | yes — F-nR |
| S-n | State | A state office — vital records, a corporate registry, a university registrar. | not needed |
| S-n | State apostille | A Secretary of State, in the state that issued the document rather than the one you live in. | yes — S-nR |
| I-n | International | A foreign authority — a police certificate from a country you used to live in, or the consulate itself. | not needed |
| I-n | International apostille | A foreign authority that also has to authenticate what it issued. | yes — I-nR |
| P-n | Private | Anyone who is not a government: a notary, your employer, an insurer, a sworn translator. | not needed |
It happens and it is nobody’s fault. The plan flags the document and the page behind its code updates, so you hear about it before you post the old one.
Short fee, missing signature, a seal that did not photocopy. Most get caught at review, before the mailer goes out — and when one still comes back, the replacement is already scheduled.
Thirty minutes with an immigration attorney, booked from the app, with your file already in front of them. The consult before you file is in the price.
We are not a law firm and we are careful about the line. We can tell you what an office asks for and what a document has to look like. Whether you qualify, and what you should file, is a question for an attorney — so we make it easy and cheap to ask one.