Residency After the Golden Visa in Gran Canaria
Canary Islands
In Las Palmas the answer to the Golden Visa's abolition is mostly the Digital Nomad Visa, because the population that would have used one largely qualifies for the other. The city has one of Europe's most established remote-work bases, and the nomad route asks exactly what that population can evidence: ongoing work for clients or an employer outside Spain.
The Canary complication is what follows approval rather than the application itself. Once here, registering correctly means IGIC rather than IVA, and the invoices you send from Las Palmas are not mainland invoices. Applicants routinely handle the visa well and then register on mainland guidance, which is a correction rather than a catastrophe — but a cheaper one if anticipated.
Local context: Gran Canaria
| Extranjería office | Oficina de Extranjería de Las Palmas, the province that also covers Fuerteventura and Lanzarote |
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| Connectivity | Las Palmas has among the best fibre and co-working provision in the archipelago, which is why the remote-work caseload concentrates here |
| Company registry | Registro Mercantil de Las Palmas |
| Local context | Las Palmas is one of Europe's best-established remote-work bases, so digital-nomad structures and Canary-specific tax setups are the everyday work here |
| Indirect tax | IGIC, not mainland IVA, at a lower general rate |
| Tax regime | Régimen Económico y Fiscal de Canarias (Ley 19/1994), including the RIC reserve and the ZEC zone |
| Tax administration | Agencia Tributaria for state taxes; the Canary tax body for IGIC |
| Work authorisation | Granted by the central Oficina de Extranjería |
Sources: Gobierno de Canarias — Tributos · Ley 19/1994 — REF de Canarias (BOE) · Zona Especial Canaria (ZEC) · Agencia Tributaria
What we handle: Residency After the Golden Visa
Spain’s Golden Visa is closed — here are the live alternatives.
- Honest briefing: why the Spanish Golden Visa is closed
- Digital Nomad Visa (remote workers & freelancers)
- Non-Lucrative Visa (NLV) for the financially independent
- Entrepreneur and self-employed routes
Questions about this service
I have passive investment income, not remote work. Does the nomad route fit?
No. The nomad route is built around ongoing professional activity performed remotely, and investment income is not that. The non-lucrative route is the one designed for passive income, and it prohibits working in Spain — which for a genuine investor is usually not a constraint.
Should I sort out the tax registration before or after the visa?
Understand it before, execute it after. You cannot register as self-employed in Spain before you have the right to be here, but you can and should know in advance what registering under IGIC will mean for your invoicing — because your clients will see the change from your first invoice.
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