Moving to Spain should feel like a fresh chapter. It tends to feel like a paperwork project: visas, sworn translations, citas, government tasas, Modelo 720, ten specialists to chase. Dorado handles all of it on one annual membership, with a personalized compliance minder that tells you what's due before it's due. You focus on the move. Not the bureaucracy.
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Help understanding appointment paths, fallback options, and escalation routes where available.
SIMs, internet, and local essentials chosen for your address before move-in.
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Every Dorado member gets a personalized map of their Spanish immigration and tax timeline. We pre-load every deadline that applies to your visa, your family, your assets, your year. Then we send proactive reminders and step-by-step instructions weeks before each one.
Beckham application 6-month window? You'll know before it closes. TIE renewal 60 days out? Alert with the appointment-booking link. Modelo 720 if you crossed €50K in foreign assets last year? We tell you. Empadronamiento clock in Madrid (90 days from arrival)? Tracked.
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Dorado handles the boring, expensive, repetitive parts of moving to Spain. Opening a bank account. Filing the empadronamiento. Translating four documents into legal Spanish. Renewing your TIE. Tracking the Modelo 720 deadline. We do them. Your membership covers the underlying fees (apostille, sworn translation, background check, government tasas, partner introductions) within reasonable usage limits. One annual charge to a credit card. None of the quirky Spanish payment terms.
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Examples are not guarantees of legal, immigration, appointment, housing, school, medical, or administrative outcomes. Dorado helps members sequence decisions, prepare cleanly, and reach better-fit human providers.
Dorado covers each phase of life in Spain. Visa prep before you board. The bureaucratic months after you arrive. The annual filings, TIE renewals, and official letters that keep coming year after year. The membership keeps working long after the boxes are unpacked.
Request founding invite →What it actually costs to do this alone in Madrid or Barcelona. Gestors, lawyers, brokers, school consultants, tax CPAs. Apostille fees, background checks, sworn translations, government tasas. Your Dorado membership covers all of it within reasonable usage limits. Three common configurations:
Most families spend €20–40K and 250–600 hours dealing with Spanish bureaucracy over five years. Dorado cuts that to a fraction.
The à la carte total includes coordination fees plus every fee Dorado covers within reasonable usage limits (apostille, sworn translation, FBI / police background check, government tasas, partner introductions). Excluded (because nobody can cover them): insurance premiums, school tuition, notary fees, tax owed, mortgage origination, living costs. Smaller cities run 15–25% less than Madrid or Barcelona. Family and couple scenarios assume one round of property pre-purchase review.
SpainExpat has helped people move to Spain since 2000. A quarter-century of editorial reference, member questions, and the partner desk built around them now becomes Dorado: a membership for the people who would rather not gamble on a stranger's referral.
Our heritage →Dorado opens as a small founding cohort. Founding members lock in 50% off the launch price. Final post-launch pricing publishes once anchor partner perks lock.
For context: à la carte fees run €15K–38K over five years plus 150–600 hours of your time, depending on visa and family size. Your Dorado membership covers the fees within reasonable usage limits. See the breakdown ↑
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