Visa for Highly Qualified Workers in Spain and Malaga

The Visa for Highly Qualified Workers is the solution to the lack of highly qualified / skilled IT profiles in Malaga and Spanish companies in general.

Malaga is experiencing an explosion of its ecosystem of innovative companies, with special growth of its ICT sector that demands a high recruitment of highly qualified workers, as a result of a very successful policy of expansion of the telecommunications and IT sector based on the joint action of the Malaga TechPark, the University of Malaga and the Malaga City Council. The creation of entities such as the Ricardo Valle Innovation Institute of Innovation(INNOVA IRV) are clear examples of the synergy created in Malaga between Administrations and companies to promote the technological Malaga.

With this, there are many multinational and national companies in the ICT sector already installed in Malaga (Google, Vodafone, Tupl, Dekra, Ericsson, Accenture, Aeorum, Aertec, Epam and many others that are coming and will come in the near future) that require the recruitment of highly qualified IT professionals, a profile that has been scarce in Malaga for years. In this sense, the Highly Qualified Workers Visa is an opportunity and a solution to the problem of hiring expert profiles in Big Data and Data Scientist, in architecture and administration of Cloud environments, in cybersecurity, full stack developers, telecommunication engineers for Hardware or software development, etc.

And, there is the paradox of the numerous young talent that is forced to emigrate due to the lack of employment opportunities in Spain. But in Malaga, the ICT sector needs highly qualified workers without delay, which are not found in our country and not even in the quarries offered by the University of Malaga and its reputable Technical Schools of Computer Engineering, Telecommunications and Industrial Engineering.

For this reason, many companies in Malaga, whether Spanish companies or companies based in Spain, have been importing foreign talent to fill their vacancies for years, being a great challenge for Human Resources Managers of technology companies in Malaga to attract non-EU foreign workers, complying with the administrative requirements associated with such recruitment. And the solution to this problem, and to the urgency and high demand of the technology sector posed by the difficulty of new incorporations of such professionals in the IT sector, comes through the residence permit for highly qualified professionals, or also commonly known as PAC.

The visa for highly qualified workers (PAC) is a residence permit that allows citizens from outside the European Union to live and work legally in Spain, as long as they work in a managerial or highly qualified position.

 

What job profiles / highly qualified workers can be hired through this Visa?

The main job profiles that can be hired through the Visa for Highly Qualified Workers are:

  • Managers who coordinate medium/large teams of people,
  • Workers who work in highly specialized technical/technological positions,
  • Citizens from outside the European Union who have completed their higher education at a university or a prestigious business school.

 

What are the requirements that highly qualified workers must meet in order to be hired under this visa?

Among the main requirements to be met by workers and job profiles that can be hired through the Visa for Highly Qualified Workers are:

  • Postgraduate degree (higher studies), or minimum demonstrable experience of five years in the same activity for which you wish to be hired,
  • Minimum gross annual salaries corresponding to categories of highly qualified workers, or directors or managers,

 

What are the advantages of this visa?

The main advantages of this type of Visa for Highly Qualified Workers are:

  • Authorization to reside (for the principal applicant and his/her family members) and work in a specific company, anywhere in Spain,
  • Hiring of workers without having to go through the filter of the limitations imposed by the national employment situation, which makes it difficult to hire unskilled workers,
  • Free movement of the worker within the Schengen zone countries,
  • Fast processing of the Visa within 10 working days, and of the Residence Permit within 20 working days.

If you wish to hire highly qualified workers in your company, at Pérez Parras Economists and Lawyers we are experts in immigration, and in the processing of Residence Permits and Visas for Highly Qualified Workers. We have professionals who combine law and telecommunications engineering, and who know in detail the documents, company reports, etc., that integrate the Visa application for this type of professionals. Likewise, we are experts in the processing of residence permits for real estate investors (Golden Visa) in Spain, and other residence permits such as non-lucrative residence visas, study visas, etc. We also have professionals in International Tax Law who combine Economics and Law, and who will help these professionals to submit your taxes in Spain and Malaga, including Beckham Law, to rent or buy their homes, etc.

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