shiatsuman

My wife and I (UK citizen resident in Spain), came to Spain end of March with a 3 month "Regupacion de Familiar" visa.
Since then have been trying to process the documentation for her to get a residents card.
some warnings
the officina de exjanero makes itself completely inaccessible by not having an email address and not answering phone or fax,
eventually after visiting the officina (cattle shed) found out the way to get through the web site to make an appointment on line.
6 week wait for appointment
thrown out of officina by guard with stick because appointment was made for "Regupacion de Familiar" (as per passport)  but should have been made for "cuidadando" (citizen)
so refused to deal with it.
2nd wait for 6 weeks for "cuidadando" appointment
objected to the legalisation procedure
which consisted of
Thai marriage certificate and English translation
letter from UK consulate saying marriage was legal in UK
legalisation from Thai Foreign office BKK with English translation
Legalised translation into Spanish of all of the above

The officina claimed that the marriage had to be legalised in BKK by the Spanish embassy and also in madrid by the spanish foreign office and that they would only accept a letter from the british consulate in Malaga not Chiangmai
however on my insistence they took the paper work and issued a reciept

and there the matter rests the wife is technically illegally in Spain but we have proof that the authorities have the paper work.
We come back to Thailand  end of September  with the intention of returning to Spain for next years summer season
It looks like going through the whole schengen application procedure again together with the marriage legalisation procedure at spanish embassy.

I am hoping to find a Gestor to handle the Spanish side before we return to thailand
a lot of Spanish have to use a Gestor because the beaurocracy is so (deliberately) unhelpful.

Hope this information may be of use to some other couple, any ideas on how to proceed from here welcome.

I have just got married and I want my wife to apply for a family reunion schengen visa for spain.
I have my spanish documentation (NIE and residencia).
I visited the Spanish embassy web site and downloaded an application form , it appears to be an application for a visitors visa.
Does anyone know if the Spanish use just this one form for all visa applications ?
Any advice on the requirements and documentation on this type of application and how long its likely to take ?
Would be good to know before we travel to BKK from CM.
many thanks