Placed as a language assistant in Spain? Your student visa requires an apostilled FBI background check. We get it apostilled in 7 to 10 business days, and if you are already in Spain without your FBI check, we can run it from a mailed fingerprint card.
The North American Language and Culture Assistants Program (NALCAP), known in Spain as Auxiliares de Conversación, places thousands of Americans in Spanish schools each year. Because you will be in classrooms with minors, the student visa requires proof of a clean criminal record: an FBI background check (FBI Identity History Summary) with an apostille from the U.S. Department of State. A state background check or a state apostille will not be accepted. It must be the federal FBI check, apostilled federally.
Most Spanish consulates require your FBI background check to be issued within 90 days of your visa appointment, and you still need a sworn Spanish translation after the apostille. If you mail your document to the Department of State yourself, the standard timeline is 5 to 12 weeks, which can blow your window before you even book the appointment. We walk documents into the Department of State personally and return your apostille in 7 to 10 business days, leaving you time to translate and assemble the rest of your file.
It happens every year. You can still get it done without flying home.
Get your fingerprints taken on a standard FD-258 card at a local police station, a private ink-fingerprinting service, or in some cases a U.S. consulate.
Mail the card to us and order our mail-in FBI background check for $95. We submit it to the FBI right away.
We email you instructions to access your FBI result, then you upload it to our apostille order form to start the apostille.
Yes. The NALCAP / Auxiliares student visa requires an FBI background check (FBI Identity History Summary) apostilled by the U.S. Department of State, because the role involves working with minors. A state-level check or state apostille will not be accepted.
We return your apostilled FBI background check in 7 to 10 business days because we walk documents into the Department of State personally instead of mailing them. The standard mail-in timeline is 5 to 12 weeks.
Get fingerprinted on an FD-258 card in Spain, mail it to us, and order our $95 mail-in FBI background check. We email you instructions to access your result, then you upload it to our apostille order form to start the apostille. No flight home required.
Yes. After the apostille, Spain requires a sworn translation (traducción jurada) of your FBI background check into Spanish by a Traductor Jurado. We can point you to a certified translation partner.
7 to 10 business days. Already in Spain? Get your FBI check by mail and apostille it without flying home.