Extranjería Madrid processing dates: November 2026

Months have passed since you filed your application and, when you check its status, all you see is that it is still being processed (en trámite). The Extranjería processing dates in Madrid published by the Administration itself give you a reference, but what you should do depends on the type of permit and on the day your application was actually registered.

Here we summarise the table of the Madrid Immigration Office (Oficina de Extranjería de Madrid) dated 1 November 2026, which appears on the website of the Government Delegation in Madrid (Delegación del Gobierno en Madrid, Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory), and we explain how to read it. If your office is a different one, you can check the Barcelona edition for November 2026.

Table of contents

• Extranjería processing dates in Madrid by procedure: November 2026
• What the Madrid table says this month
• How to place your application in the Madrid table
• Frequently asked questions about the Madrid dates
• Legal notice

Extranjería processing dates in Madrid by procedure: November 2026

The official document is titled "Fechas de instrucción de los procedimientos de la Oficina de Extranjería de Madrid" (processing dates of the procedures of the Madrid Immigration Office), is dated 1 November 2026 and, for each type of procedure, gives one date for applications (solicitudes) and another for appeals (recursos). We reproduce the dates unchanged and only group the rows by type of procedure so you can find yours faster; we have also converted the dates to day/month/year format. The official Spanish name of each procedure is shown in brackets.

The exact dates for each procedure are in the tables below.

The chart sums up each block in a single bar: a gap of a month and a half for residence based on roots in Spain (arraigo) and family procedures, and two months for studies, work and long-term residence. Each bar is the median of the block and hides rows that are far apart within the same block, so look up your exact procedure in the tables before drawing conclusions.

Residence based on roots in Spain (arraigo)

Family, family reunification and minors

Studies

Work, renewals and changes of status

Long-term residence and other permits

1. Source: Government Delegation in Madrid, immigration service, document "2026 11 NOV" (PDF), dated 1 November 2026.

2. These are indicative references from the office itself: they are not a legal deadline nor a commitment to issue a decision by a given date.

3. The appeals date for the procedure "Familiar de comunitario: Brexit" appears in the document as 13/02/2026; we copy it as it appears.

If you go through the rows, you will see that the different types of roots residence have different dates. All of them are governed by the Immigration Regulation (Reglamento de Extranjería) approved by Royal Decree 1155/2024, in force since 20 May 2025, but they are separate legal routes and the administration gives each one its own reference times.

What the Madrid table says this month

Most up to date and most delayed

The most advanced row is training-based roots residence: on 1 November the office was already handling applications from 16 October, barely two weeks earlier. It is followed by initial non-lucrative residence (09/10/2026), the change of status for those exempt from a work permit (06/10/2026), the renewal of family reunification (04/10/2026) and the initial application for those exempt from a work permit (03/10/2026), all less than a month from the date of the document.

At the other end are humanitarian reasons, with applications from 13 July: a gap of more than three and a half months, the largest in the whole table. Behind come the change of status from situations that allow you to work (05/08/2026), the initial student application (07/08/2026) and minors born in Spain (17/08/2026). There are more than three months between the fastest and the slowest row, so talking about "how long Madrid takes" in general says little.

Block by block

Roots residence. The five types have five different dates. Family roots residence is the furthest behind (22/08), social roots residence is at 14/09, second-chance roots residence at 22/09 and employment-based roots residence at 27/09. An example with an arbitrary date: an application registered on 1 September would already be behind the office's working point for social roots residence, but not for family roots residence, which in this edition was still handling files from the end of August.

Family. Almost everything falls on 15 September: family member of a Spanish citizen, family member of an EU citizen (initial and permanent) and initial family reunification share the same date. The exceptions are the renewal of family reunification, further ahead (04/10), and minors, who are still in August (17/08 for those born in Spain and 22/08 for those born abroad). The card for family members of EU citizens under Brexit is also in August (22/08).

Studies. This is the block with the largest internal difference: the initial student application is at 7 August, the extension at 25 August and the change of status from a student stay already reaches 20 September. With this table, the office is closer to day-to-day with people who stop being students than with those applying for a stay for the first time.

Work. The initial applications as an employee and as self-employed are almost level (14/09 and 15/09) and the renewal is at 03/09. Those exempt from a work permit are the fastest in the block for initial applications and changes of status (03/10 and 06/10), although their renewal drops to 31/08. The most delayed row is the change of status from situations that allow you to work (05/08), almost a month behind the one starting from situations that do not allow you to work (31/08).

Long-term residence and others. Initial non-lucrative residence (09/10) is almost seven weeks ahead of its own renewal (22/08). Long-term residence and EU long-term residence share 31/08, gender-based or sexual violence is at 26/09 and humanitarian reasons close the table at 13/07.

Applications and appeals, each at its own pace

The appeals column does not follow the applications column. For roots residence, all appeals are at 30/09, so appeals for family roots residence are ahead of the applications for that same route. The same happens with the change of status from situations that allow you to work: applications in August, appeals at 16 October. In the opposite direction, some appeals are far behind: Brexit appears with 13/02/2026, minors with 19/04/2026, humanitarian reasons with 18/05/2026 and gender-based or sexual violence with 22/05/2026.

Renewals and rows with a one-month legal deadline

Renewals are subject to positive administrative silence (silencio positivo) after three months: if no decision has been notified by then, the application is deemed granted. In this table, their dates are about two months from 1 November, or a little more: 03/09 for residence and work, 31/08 for those exempt from a work permit and 22/08 for non-lucrative residence. If your renewal is earlier than those dates, you received no request for documents (requerimiento) and three months have already passed since registration, it is worth checking whether positive silence applies to you.

Two rows have a legal deadline of just one month, with negative administrative silence (silencio negativo): if no decision is notified in time, the application is deemed refused. They are the student extension and residence for minors born in Spain. In Madrid both are in August (25/08 and 17/08), more than two months before the date of the document. Anyone who filed on those dates is already past the deadline: they can appeal on the grounds of silence and the office is still obliged to issue a decision. Before deciding, check your electronic notifications in case there was a request for documents that stopped the clock.

How to place your application in the Madrid table

Madrid splits rows that other offices group together: each type of roots residence by name, initial, renewal and change-of-status applications separately, and a row of its own for those exempt from a work permit. Find the exact row for your procedure and compare it with the registration date on your filing receipt (resguardo), not with the date of your appointment. If what you filed was an appeal, look at the appeals column.

If the date in the table is later than yours, the office is already working on files newer than yours and it is time to check the status and your electronic notifications. If it is earlier, it has not yet reached your date in this edition. How the legal deadline is calculated, administrative silence and its exceptions, what to do if your date has already passed, and travelling or starting work while the application is pending do not depend on Madrid: we explain them once in our guide to legal deadlines in Spanish immigration procedures (in Spanish).

Frequently asked questions about the Madrid dates

Do these dates apply to other provinces?

No. They are the dates of the Madrid Immigration Office, which depends on the Government Delegation in Madrid, and they only apply to the files handled by that office. If your file is with another office, there are November editions for Valencia, Murcia and the Balearic Islands (in Spanish) and for Barcelona.

Why does my roots residence application have a different date from that of someone I know?

Because Madrid publishes a date for each type. With the table of 1 November, there are almost two months between family roots residence (22/08) and training-based roots residence (16/10), even if both were filed on the same day.

Is the Brexit appeals date a typo?

We do not know. The document gives 13/02/2026 for appeals by family members of EU citizens under Brexit and we reproduce it unchanged. If you have an appeal of that type pending, check the status of your file instead of relying only on that row.