Registering your partnership formalises your relationship before the regional registry — and for international couples, it can unlock the residency route that changes everything.
Walk through the registry requirements step by step, see which documents you will need and which residency door it opens. Free, no sign-up, and nothing leaves your browser. (Tool available in Spanish.)
Registration is regional. In the Valencian Community it runs through the regional registry of de-facto unions: both partners must be unmarried (or divorced — documented), not registered in another partnership, and at least one of you registered as resident (padrón) in the region. The procedure: application, appointment, documentation and a joint declaration.
When one partner is foreign, the file grows: birth certificates and singleness/civil status certificates from the home country, apostilled and officially translated — each country with its own quirks and validity periods (many certificates are only valid 3–6 months). This is where most files stall, and where preparing everything correctly the first time saves months.
For couples where one partner is an EU citizen, registration opens the route to the family member of an EU citizen card for the non-EU partner — one of the strongest authorisations in the system. For non-EU couples, a registered (or duly documented) partnership counts for family reunification under the new Immigration Regulation. Civil marriage remains the alternative — sometimes the better one; we tell you honestly which fits your case.
We review your situation, build the exact document list for your specific countries, prepare the file and the appointment, and coordinate the follow-on residency step if that is your goal.
Updated daily from official sources (BOE, ministries and public bodies).
The new Regulation recognises unregistered partnerships with duly documented cohabitation for family reunification. Formal registration remains the strongest route — but the door has widened.
Foreign civil-status certificates are usually valid for 3–6 months and need apostille and sworn translation. Timing their request with the registry appointment is half the battle.
Write to us with your nationalities and where you live — we answer personally in Spanish, English, Russian or Ukrainian, with a closed written quote.
info@santiagolegalconsulting.esGeneral guidance; regional requirements vary and change — each file requires individual review.
