Visa Info

Dear New International Student (NON European only) Academic Year 2008-2009

To enter Spain you need a student visa. This you will get by contacting the nearest Spanish embassy or consulate from your hometown. As soon as you have paid your tuition fee and are a registered student we recommend you to call the embassy or consulate for a visit.

To obtain your student visa you need to bring: (make 3 photo copies of everything)
• Copy of your passport,
• 3 pass photos
• A confirming letter from the Academy that you have been accepted as a Guest student (6 months) or a full time student from September 17th 2008. (The letter will be sent to you as a scanned in original document via email)
• A test from your doctor that you are in good health, Etc
• A medical insurance (Do you not have any then we can recommend Sanitas
E-mail: cristinalopez@agenteseguros.info (best to contact Sanitas via e-mail)
Tel.: Cristina +34 619 083 038 or Viviana 645 188 406 - Fax: +34 952 900 370
They have a special offer for students coming from Marbella Design Academy.
• A document from a bank in: Monda or Marbella proving that you have a bank account here. (UNICAJA can help you. They have a branch both in Monda and in Marbella:
To open a bank account: The following have to be send by fax or email (the documents scanned in
and send as an attachment: your name, address at home, name of your father and Mother,
copy of your passport, name of the Bank, from where you will transfer funds to your new account and
the accepting letter from the Marbella Design Academy. When the bank has received this they will
respond to you within few days.
Unicaja – Monda: Fax +34 952 45 96 16 Salvador (speaks English) cescobart@unicaja.es
Unicaja - Marbella: Fax +34 952 82 89 69 – Adrian (speaks English) asanchezb@unicaja.es
or – Gonzales (speaks English) gmirasol@unicaja.es
• The Consulate also requires a paid reservation for either a hostel (minimum 1 to 2 weeks) or a rental contract for a house / apartment.
Please email Isa in advance on ileo_ma@hotmail.com to make a reservation for a rental of a house or an apartment in Monda, or contact one of the Hostels in Marbella on this list and make a reservation.
You can pay for 1 or 2 weeks by Credit Card.
The Hostel will then send you a receipt by fax or email proving that you have reserved and
paid for a room at their Hostel. Please see the list of Hostels send to you via email.

With this you will get your residence students visa. It sounds more complicated than it is.
Take care that you contact the Spanish Embassy or Consulate in your hometown in time.
It is a good idea to give the Embassy or Consulate a call to ensure that you have everything needed with you when you visit them and please call them for a visit as soon as you have paid
The embassy or consulate will give you a 3 months visa. (Take care a D is written in it. It is very important. Stands for student.). With this you will enter Spain and at your first month at the Academy you will have to go together with the other new international students to the local police station in Malaga ( The secretary of the academy will guide you upon arrival).