Arraigo Socioformativo (Vocational Training Residence)

Prove 2 years of continuous stay immediately before the application (art. 126.b RD 1155/2024). The regulation gives no figure for absences, but the Ministry's official sheet for this arraigo sets the criterion — absences from Spain across those two years may not exceed 90 days.

Be enrolled in, or attending, an in-person regulated training programme: FP (Formación Profesional — Spain's vocational training), ESO para adultos (compulsory secondary education, adult track), certificado de profesionalidad, or training in the SEPE (public employment service) catalogue (art. 127.d RD 1155/2024). In-person OR blended counts, provided at least 50 % of the programme taught is in person (arts. 52.1.b and 52.1.e.5); only fully distance learning is excluded. Two deadlines decide your case: if enrolment has an official window, the application must be filed in the TWO MONTHS BEFORE that window opens; and proof of enrolment must reach the immigration office within THREE MONTHS of the grant being notified to you. Failing to prove it in time EXTINGUISHES the permit you were already granted.

No criminal record in Spain and in the countries where you lived during the five years before entering Spain, for offences under Spanish law (art. 126.d RD 1155/2024). That means every one of those countries, not just your country of origin.

A requirement that decides ADMISSIBILITY and that many people do not know about — you must not hold a stay or residence authorization, nor be an interested party in proceedings to grant, extend, renew or modify another authorization (art. 126.h RD 1155/2024). If you have another live application, settle it before applying for arraigo.

The rule asks for two specific things, not a generic entry ban: you must not be listed as inadmissible in the territory of countries Spain has an agreement with to that effect (art. 126.e RD 1155/2024) and, where applicable, you must not be within the period of the no-return commitment taken on when voluntarily returning to your country of origin (art. 126.f).

Complete valid passport.

Socioformativo arraigo also requires a social integration report, issued by the autonomous community where you live — or by the TOWN COUNCIL of your usual address where the community has so established (art. 127.d in fine, referring to 127.c RD 1155/2024). If it is not issued in time and you can prove that, you may show integration by any other means of evidence; the report must be issued within one month of your request. There is no standalone financial-means requirement here as there is in arraigo social, but note that the report records, among other factors, the financial means you have (art. 127.c).