When to file for renewal

The only regime where the window is set in calendar days rather than months: 60 days before expiry and 90 after. Clarified on 15 September 2026, and the two halves of the window carry different weight. **The 90-day tail after expiry is in the act itself**, art. 76.3, and applies to the whole of section 2. **The sixty days before expiry are also in the act, but only for HQP**: art. 71.3 reads «Durante los sesenta días anteriores al fin de la vigencia de la autorización de residencia se podrá solicitar su renovación por dos años si se mantienen los requisitos que generaron el derecho». For the digital nomad (art. 74 quinquies.3), the ICT (art. 73) and the other statuses of the section the act sets no window before expiry at all, and there the only source is the UGE document of February 2018. That document is old and parts of it are out of date (the investor route was repealed and its blanket "two years" clashes with criterion DGGM 2/2025), but the filing window has not changed and is repeated in UGE practice.

Filing within the window extends the previous permit until the decision. A late filing within three months of expiry also extends it, but the administration may open a penalty procedure under art. 52.b of Organic Law 4/2000.

The article states both periods in one sentence, two months before and three after, with the same penalty caveat. Unlike articles 64 and 80, it does not expressly say that the previous permit stays valid while the file is decided.

The wording matches article 64: filing in the window extends the previous permit until the decision, and so does a late filing within three months, at the risk of a penalty procedure.

The same wording as for employed work. This is the general regime, not Law 14/2013: the start-up entrepreneur permit has a different window, 60 and 90 days.

This is the extension of the exceptional-circumstances permit itself. Permits under this chapter run for one year, except arraigo familiar, which runs for five.

The extension is requested within two months before the visa or permit expires, a timely filing keeps the previous one valid until the decision, and a late filing within three months after also does, at the risk of a penalty procedure under art. 52.b of Organic Law 4/2000. Applies to higher and post-compulsory secondary education, volunteering and training (art. 52.1 a, b, d, e). Pupil mobility programmes (art. 52.1 c) are not extended.

The permit runs five years, or the shorter period the Spanish relative intends to stay in Spain. Renewal exists only for that second case: two months before expiry or three after with a penalty procedure, and a timely filing keeps the previous permit valid. After the full five years the next station is long-term residence, not a renewal.

The family member card is valid for five years (art. 8.5). At the end one applies not for a renewal but for the permanent card: in the month before the card expires or within three months after, with an administrative penalty (art. 11.1), after which it is renewed automatically every ten years. Renewing the five-year card itself before the permanent right accrues is allowed (art. 13) without a stated window. The rule says nothing about the old card staying valid while the file is decided: the right of residence in this regime does not depend on the card.