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Text: Hugo Leon
The Consulate General of Spain in Cuba today announced a new procedure for obtaining national visas, in addition to increasing the number of appointments to legalize documents.
The information revealed on the official Twitter profile and on the diplomatic post’s own page explains that applicants must apply for registration in the appointment system.
For this you have to send an email to the address [email protected]. Through this email, no queries of any kind will be answered and only applicants for registration in the Appointment application will be accepted, the Consulate clarified.
The email must include a clear photo next to your international passport, with legible data; the initial authorization issued by the Delegation or sub-delegation of the Spanish Government; the criminal record certificate and the medical certificate (both documents legalized by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
In the body of the email, the person’s data must be included, correctly separated on different lines and in the same way that they appear in the passport.
The passport number is one of them, the next is the contact’s personal email address, the name and surname of the applicant (in capital letters and without accents), as well as the expected start date of the trip.
The Consulate’s website indicates that a separate email must be sent for each applicant and that applications through third parties are not accepted.
On the other hand, it clarifies that the same email should not be sent before at least 15 days have elapsed. Not complying with this could cause a delay of up to two more months in the process.
It also states that only when the visa applicant receives a confirmation email with their username and password, they will be able to access the appointment system.
At another time of the day, the Spanish Consulate in Havana announced that it will increase the number of daily appointments for the legalization of documents.
The message, also published on the social network Twitter, indicates that every day from Monday to Thursday, there will be 24 additional appointments to the usual ones for the document legalization processes.