Frustrating Wait For Family Reunion Visa For Spain.?

Question

Dear Sir/Madam, The Spanish immigration issues the residence permit within 2 or 3 months for family members of legal residents of Spain while Embassy of Spain in Islamabad in Pakistan takes One or One and Half Year for issuing family reunion visa. It is really an unfair red-tape procedure for a spouse. My wife is permanent resident of Spain and I have a Spanish national son. I have submitted all the required documents and paid all the fees in this direction. Furthermore, The Spain embassy in Islamabad does not collect the application directly instead they hire an agency, which is www.visatronix.com and they provide the services for the safe passage of documents between an applicant and the embassy. So I cannot personally request before the embassy for quick visa processing. The embassy only calls an applicant whenever they issue a visa to him.

Kindly let me know, how could I get the family reunion visa for Spain as soon as possible? I need your guidance in this matter please? Thanks

Answer 1

Guest 9488
Spanish own history and present is eclipsed in inquisitions civil wars terrorism and torture of masses. Its a divided nation
Its not Islamic terrorism which wiped out or rather butchered Native Americans in bulk
For last fifty years all Spain have produced is generations of waiting staff butlers and cleaners for advance European nations
The word Spanish is synonymous to stupid since Faulty Towers

Answer 2

Dear Guest 9488,

Thank you very much for your detailed reply. First of all, there is no grave situation of security and countless Islamic terrorist in Pakistan. We enjoy the free moments and perform daily works easily without any fear. The doings of few cannot be associated to whole friendly, tolerant nation of Pakistan. In fact, we have corrupt government, which is in the form of curse on us.

Unfortunately, it is the media war against Pakistan which portrait it in such situation.

Many countries have given the right of family reunion to the legal immigrants and Spain is one of them.

The Europe always has double standard of its policies. First you encourage the illegal immigration and if they exceed than your requirements then you start blaming for it. Is it fair that a person enters in Spain illegally and spends 3 years and gets his residence permit under the umbrella act of Arriago? During this period, he does not pay taxes but gets all the benefits except moving in or out of Spain. No doubt, Eu is also responsible for illegal immigration because their laws encourage it in the developing countries.

Legal immigrants always have to pay the price of new policies, checks and securities despite of paying taxes fulfilling all the requirements of housing and health. I also applied family reunion visa in 2008. In May 2009 my inquiry was conducted and now it is April 2010, I am still waiting.

The Spanish bureaucratic system is very sluggish and embassy does not have any web site or visa case tracking facility even in this era of web technologies. It is not an easy way for a person to have kids and job and always come and go just for meeting spouse irrespective of his legal right pass by the Spanish government in 2000.

The embassy charges the high fee and provide the poor services. It they want, they can complete their work within months. Many countries in the Eu provide the residence visa within 6 to 8 months. It is the Spanish embassy’s working style to prolong the process of family reunion more than the immigration of Canada. It is ridiculous to sit back and wait for several years just for family reunion of Spain.

In a word, I just say that those who suffer in pain can experience better than those who can only make comments and condolences.

Answer 3

Well if you say that it is not a red tape process, then i think i am not agree with this, my family visas for my 2 kids n wife were submitted BY TNT to ISlamabad as per instructions of the honrary counslate of Karachi by 30th March 2008, and till today i am waiting for the inquiry, in august 2009 embassy lawyers called us that they will come without indicating any date, the i did called at Forign office in Madrid, with THE NEV numbers and i was informed that visas of my family were approved by 22nd december 2008, and now it is in the hands of Spanish embassy in Islamabad to make an inquiry and issue the visas, but i think this as well is not fair, coz many of my known ppl here in palma de mallorca who belongs to panjab and applied after me have their families with them as today, and we from karachi are waiting since March 2008 til today 23 Feb 2010 for the inquiry, and here i have people with experiences of the curroptions of the inquiry teams, this is pakistan. Just today i tried to call more then 20 times to Espanish embassy VISA department once the picked up the phone and when i asked them about visas they cut the phone and then never picked up again. then i called to honrary counslate karachi the lady named Miss Joseph, and the reply was i can not do anything, i am mailing to spanish embassy in islamabad no reply, the fax of the embassy is not working, i really cant understand, if any one have any suggestion please mail me at [e-mail], My name is Aamer Umer and i live in Palma de Mallorca Spain