You could get paid on time every month since you start. You could go months without being paid. Unless you are a trust fund baby, I expect that would make a BIG difference in how your year goes. You could have the best year of your life! You get to live in Spain! The funcionarios who work for the Ministry. Is it just me or is everyone who works for this program from the Spanish consulates in the US to the regional coordinators to the directors in Madrid a certified straight up d-bag?
And they fired her after a year! Here is a video that explains them to a T. I can talk to them for hours on the phone or in person and leave the conversation not knowing anything more than I did when I started! And on top of that they make you feel bad about it! I have even had them intentionally hang up on me when I was demanding to know when we would get paid in La Rioja last year, sparking my most popular post.
I am not sure. In fact, the only time they call me back is when I threaten to go to the US embassy or I call them directly out on not doing their job.
Then I get a phone call from some official all fussy and upset by my insinuations. If I had a euro for every time I got a runaround answer from a ministry official in Spain, I would be as rich as Iker Casillas.
You learn to take things into your own hands, I guess. Big upside. The Visa Nightmare. I call it a nightmare because every time I had to think about my experiences with the visa and NIE, I want to die. The entire paperwork process from applying for the visa, applying for a NIE, renewing your NIE, and the details of living in Spain with a student NIE could not be more stressful and complicated!
I understand that this process is not really within control of the Ministry of Education, but at the same time, it is a government sponsored program, and one of the guarantees is a NIE.
I think the Ministry needs to do two things:. This all goes back to the disorganization and hit or miss. For example, some people are given papers that expire exactly one year after they submit the paperwork, so September or October of the following year.
Some people are given cards that expire exactly on May The rest, somewhere in the middle. It makes absolutely no sense. You could end up completely screwed like with what happened to me. If I was given the correct papers with the correct dates, I could still be in Spain right now. It gets even more complicated when you try to renew your papers, and if you try to switch regions. Some regions will let you renew no problem.
Others make you go back to America and get a whole new visa. Hit or miss. Some regions even let you submit the paperwork in the fall to renew and then told you a month later you needed to buy a last minute flight to America and get a whole other visa.
Sometimes it takes so long for the offices to process your paperwork you can go the whole year without getting a NIE! Or they give you appointments after your visa has expired. You hopefully get papers to live in Spain!
That is if you can survive the deathly obstacles thrown at you. Kept blind and in the dark. Here are the 3 main things the Ministry should keep in contact with the auxiliars about. This lack of Ministry information directly leads to mass hysteria on the dozens of facebook groups and expat forums about this program. The point of this post is not to whine and moan about the auxiliar program in Spain.
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