About Abroad Plan HQ

Abroad Plan HQ exists for one reader: an American seriously considering a move to Spain, who has discovered that the honest answer to almost every question is harder to find than it should be.

What we do

We research the practical mechanics of moving from the United States to Spain, and we write them down carefully. Costs, healthcare, renting, banking, the sequence in which things have to happen, and the questions you need to ask before you commit to anything.

We also build tools. A cost calculator that shows its assumptions instead of hiding them, and a checklist that adapts to your situation without pretending to know whether you qualify for anything.

What we do not do

We do not give legal, immigration, tax or financial advice, and we never will. We are not lawyers, we are not gestores, and we do not know your circumstances. Immigration rules are applied case by case, and the only people who can tell you what applies to you are the competent authority and a qualified professional you have hired.

We do not publish a requirement, a threshold, a fee or a processing time that we have not checked against the government body that sets it. When we cannot check something, we leave it out. A guide with four verified sections is worth more than a guide with six where two are guesses.

Why Spain, and why only Spain

Because doing one country properly is harder than doing five badly, and far more useful. Depth compounds; breadth does not. When Spain is genuinely well covered, and not before, we will look at a second destination.

How we check

Every factual claim on this site points at a record in our source register: the official URL, the body responsible for it, the jurisdiction, the date we consulted it, the date a human last verified it, and the specific claim it supports. One claim per source.

A source nobody has verified is never shown to you, and a page carrying legal or financial claims cannot be published without one. That rule is enforced by the software, not by our good intentions.

You can read the detail in our research methodology and our editorial policy.

How we are funded

Nothing on this site is sponsored, and there are no affiliate links anywhere on it today. We intend to fund the work through advertising, and later possibly through affiliate relationships with insurers, banks and money-transfer services. When that happens, it will be disclosed plainly on every page it touches, and no commercial link will ever sit where an editorial answer belongs.

Corrections

We get things wrong. When we do, we fix them and we say so, in public, on our updates page. If you have found an error, please tell us.