Hi Dimdem,

How are things going with your visa? I'm an American in Spain, and I went through the process of getting a working visa, but through a private (single) employer. I think if your company is sending you over, and they have offices in Spain, they probably use a different method. But my process took:

3 months from the time the employer called for an appointment with the government (to request approval to hire a foreigner) until they finally got the meeting

3 months for the government to give approval (though we were told it could take up to 9 months)

1 month for the employer to send me the approval and for me to submit all the necessary documents to the Spanish consulate in the U.S.

So 7 months before the papers were even submitted to the consulate in the U.S. Once you submit the documents in the States, you have to wait for them to give you the actual visa. So of course you can't leave the country because they have your passport. The time for visa approval varies from consulate to consulate. It could take as little as three weeks or as long as three months...

Hope that helps!

Kronos