If you’ve ever tried to apply for a Spanish or Portuguese visa from overseas, you know the “FBI Background Check” was the stuff of nightmares.
The Way It Used to Be (The Dark Ages)
Not long ago, getting your federal background check while already in Spain or Portugal was nearly impossible. You had two choices, and both were headaches:
- The “Fly Home” Option: Booking a $900 flight back to the U.S. just to visit a USPS location for digital fingerprints.
- The “Paper & Ink” Snail Mail: Hunting down a local police station in Europe that still used ink, mailing physical cards to West Virginia, and waiting 8 to 12 weeks for a result—praying they didn’t get rejected for a “smudge.”
It was expensive, agonizingly slow, and one tiny clerical error could reset your entire visa clock.
The New Reality with Tu Apostilla
We watched our clients struggle with this for years, so we decided to change the game. What used to be a bureaucratic mountain is now a streamlined digital highway.
How we’ve made the impossible, possible:
- On-Site Fingerprinting: If you are in Spain or Portugal, we can help you get fingerprinted locally using the correct protocols.
- Do-It-Yourself (But Better): Already have your fingerprint cards? Don’t mail them to a government black hole. Send them to us.
- Digital Processing in Hours: Once we have your prints, we process them digitally through our secure channels. Instead of months, we’re talking about results in a matter of hours.
Beyond the Result
A background check is just a piece of paper until it’s legalized. Because we have offices in Spain and Portugal, we don’t stop at the result. We handle the U.S. Department of State Apostille and provide the MAEC-certified sworn translation you need for your residency appointment.
Stop waiting on the mail and start planning your life in the sun.
