ITIN for Spanish Citizens
Read the published requirement closely and the first thing you notice is that it says nothing about Spain. Their stated condition is that you must not be eligible for a Social Security number, meaning not a US resident, citizen or green card holder. It is a test of your status inside the American system, not of the passport in your drawer.
The rest is short. What their list asks for is a passport photo or scan, a non-US address, any country, and an email. A Spanish address is a non-US address. And in their own words on the application, there is no need to step into the USA or to be resident there.
What this page will not do is tell you what any of it means on the Spanish side of your own ledger. Nothing about that is published in their material, so it is left blank here and taken to the call rather than guessed at.
Nationality is not what the requirement turns on
Their answer to the requirements question is one sentence long, and it repays reading slowly. You must not be eligible for an SSN, meaning not a US resident, citizen or green card holder. There is no nationality in that sentence, no country of birth, no list of approved passports.
That matters more than any Spain-specific detail, because the question most people arrive with, whether Spaniards qualify, is not the question the requirement asks. The bar is about your relationship to the American system, and everything else about you sits outside it.
What the sentence cannot do is tell you whether you personally clear it. That depends on your own history: time spent in the United States, any status you have held there, anything ever filed in your name. No web page can settle that and this one will not pretend to. It is a short conversation, and it belongs at the start rather than after a payment.
On the number itself, their own definition: an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number is a tax processing number issued by the Internal Revenue Service, given to people who are required to have a US taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security number. Their published reasons for wanting one are three: build American credit score, open bank accounts as a non-resident, access American credit cards as a non-resident.
The published bar is about your status in the US system, not your passport. Whether you clear it takes about five minutes to establish.
Book Your Assessment CallWhat the application actually asks you for
Their published document list has three lines on it. A passport photo or scan. A non-US address, and their own word beside it is any. An email. That is the whole set as published.
Two things in that list are worth naming. The address qualifier is not a preference for one country over another, so an address in Valencia sits in the same box as an address in Vancouver. And what is asked for on the passport is a photo or a scan, not the document itself, which is the difference between a form you complete at your desk and one that starts by posting your passport abroad.
The one published client account of the process describes exactly that set. Pedro A. writes that he sent a passport scan, an email and a mailing address, and that the team submitted everything within minutes of his application. Days later a document arrived from the IRS and he signed it.
The published steps are four: fill a form in two minutes and pay, sign a document within a week, they take care of the rest, and the number arrives by email, valid for three years. That second step is the only deadline on your side of the table: a signature is expected in the first week rather than at leisure.
On travel, their claim is plain and it is theirs: they use automated workflows that submit the application, with no need to step into the USA or to be resident. That covers the application. The banking stage afterwards is a separate question, handled further down this page rather than blurred into this one.
Forty five to sixty days, and the spread underneath it
The published window is 45 to 60 days, and it appears in four separate places on their ITIN page: the hero, the comparison line, the fourth process step and the summary of what you get. It is a consistent number across the page.
Their own published client results sit on both sides of it. Antonio Leao is published as their fastest at 37 days. Michael Niziolek reports 40 to 50 days. Davide Vignoli reports one month and two weeks, Thor M. within six weeks. And on the same page Pedro A. writes that his took three months and two days.
That spread is the honest picture. A quoted window is a quote, and the second half of the wait belongs to the IRS rather than to any provider in this market. Their own fulfilment policy makes the useful commitment here: the estimated time for completion is communicated to the client before the purchase of the service. That is the sentence to hold any provider to.
One thing is not published anywhere, and it is the first question a buyer asks after paying. What starts the clock: the payment, the signature in week one, or the submission itself. Ask it before you pay.
The price, and what paying it from a euro account looks like
The published price for the ITIN service is 1,000 dollars, valid for three years, with the same renewal price at the end of it and zero maintenance cost in between. That is the entire pricing block as their own material publishes it, checked in July 2026. Prices move, so confirm the current figure before you pay rather than after.
Their framing beside it is that the pricing is transparent, with no expensive calls with lawyers, no hidden costs and no surprise fees, and everything you need for less than the cost of one hour with a top-tier law firm.
The figure is published in dollars, which raises the obvious question for anyone banking in euro. Their fulfilment policy answers the currency half of it: payments are accepted in USD, Euro and Pound Sterling, and also in crypto. What is not published is the rest of that answer. No conversion rate is stated, and whether anything attaches to one payment route over another is not published either. Both are fair questions to put before the payment step, not after it.
The other thing a buyer looks for beside a price and will not find there is the refund position, which lives on their terms page instead. In their words: refund requests can be initiated within one business day of payment if a mistake has been made by the customer, with eligibility assessed case by case, and if a cancellation request is made after service processing has commenced, refunds will not be granted. One business day is a short window. Read the page before the payment, not afterwards.
It is also not published whether the figure is per person. If a spouse or a child needs a number too, that belongs on the call before anything is paid.
Two questions their own material leaves open: what starts the clock, and whether the banking after it needs a flight.
Book Your Assessment CallWho you are dealing with, and in which language
Two lines run in the first person across their own pages. On their Mexico page and again on their Paraguay page: I am a native Spanish speaker. And on the about page, in the same first person: I played basketball for 12 years, I joined the Catalan national team. That page also lists the countries where partners were met face to face, and Spain is on it, alongside Portugal, Panama, Mexico and Dubai.
The site is published under Miquel Gironès’s own name, and the about page describes mastering four languages. Their ITIN page publishes how the team is reached: WhatsApp, Telegram, or a direct message on Instagram. The about page states an average Telegram response time of two minutes.
Now the honest limit. Everything published on the site today, including the ITIN page, the FAQ and the terms, is in English. There is no Spanish version of any of it. Whether a consultation itself can be held in Spanish is not stated anywhere on their pages, so it is not promised here. It is a reasonable thing to ask when you book.
On meeting anyone in person, what is published is a position rather than an address: they operate online, keep offices for in-person meetings, and ask you to say the word so they can connect you with the closest one. No office in Spain is published, and none is claimed here.
What the number is supposed to open
The ITIN is not the destination in their material, it is the first rung. Their published ladder runs in four steps: request the number, described as the equivalent of an SSN for non-residents, then open US bank accounts and take the first credit cards, then build the credit score toward 750 and apply for top-tier cards such as Chase Sapphire or American Express Platinum, then pair the setup with an LLC. The banks they name are Bank of America, Chase, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo.
Here is the contradiction on their own page, named rather than smoothed over, because it decides whether this involves a flight from Madrid. Step two of the ladder reads fly to the US and open bank accounts. Yet on the same page, Andrew Menechian writes that his LLC, EIN and ITIN were all fine and that he got the bank accounts remotely. One is the published route, the other is one client’s published experience. Which one applies to a new number holder in Spain is not resolved anywhere in their material, and it is the single best question to walk into the call holding.
No published ITIN testimonial names Spain. Two name other European bases, in the clients’ own words: Michael Niziolek writes that in Poland there is no such thing as an AMEX, that his ITIN came in 40 to 50 days and that he has two credit cards already. Povilas writes that he has a company in Lithuania and is running five to six million dollars of ad spend through his debit card, and that this is how it started before he applied for his ITIN. Among the published wins beside this page, one client reports an American Express Platinum approval in Germany and another opens a Bank of America account while resident in Greece. Individual results, stated as individual results.
What this page will not tell you
The biggest one first. Nothing in their published material says anything about the Spanish side of this: what Hacienda makes of it, what any treaty between the two countries does, what reporting attaches to accounts held abroad. There is no source for it in their material, and inventing it on a page about tax and immigration would be worse than leaving it empty. So it is empty, deliberately, and it goes to the call and to your own adviser in Spain.
On US filing there is exactly one line to report, and it is theirs rather than ours. Their FAQ states that having an ITIN will not create a US filing liability and / or tax liability. That is their published statement about their service. It is not a finding about you, and nothing on this page should be read as one.
Three more blanks, named because naming them is more useful than filling them in. No approval rate is published. No path is published for what happens if the IRS rejects an application, which is the question worth asking every provider in this market before paying any of them. And what triggers a renewal at the end of the three years, beyond the price staying the same, is not published either.
The conversation is free and qualified, which in practice means a short form first and a call after it. Bringing those questions to it is a better use of fifteen minutes than any page can be.
The published bar is about your status in the US system, not your passport. Whether you clear it takes about five minutes to establish.
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- ITIN document checklistPick your situation, get the exact list the IRS accepts.
- What it costsPublished prices and timelines, service by service.
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FAQ
Can a Spanish citizen get a US ITIN?
Do I have to travel to the United States?
Does my Spanish passport have to be posted anywhere?
Can I use my address in Spain on the application?
Can I pay in euro?
Will an ITIN change what I owe in Spain?
Can the consultation be held in Spanish?
How long is the number valid, and what does renewal cost?
Get the Spanish side of it answered by a person
The assessment call covers whether the published requirement fits your own status, what the process looks like from Spain, and the questions this page deliberately left open, including what happens if an application is rejected. Free, qualified, and direct about what applies to you.
Book Your Assessment CallThis guide reports what the authorities and institutions involved publish, quoted, with the date each source was read. It is not tax, legal or immigration advice. Published rules change, and an individual case can turn on facts no page can see.
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