Lucia Lagunas Reyes
Head of the immigration department
Lucia Lagunas Reyes.
Spanish immigration lawyer, admitted 2012
Pamplona Bar Association, no. 2572 · check the public registerShe is the person you speak to first, and the one whose name turns up in most of the reviews people leave afterwards. She has spent her whole career on one thing: getting foreigners the right to live in Spain, and keeping it once they have it.
What she does
One area of law, done properly.
She does not also do divorces and traffic fines on the side.
Lucia heads the immigration department at My Spain Visa and runs the team that handles the files. Your first conversation is with her. She is the one who tells you which route fits, what the consulate is going to ask for, and where your case is thin before you have spent anything on it.
After that she is not the only person you deal with, and that is deliberate. More than ten legal professionals work across Barcelona, Marbella and Valencia, so a call happens when you need it rather than when a single diary opens up. What does not change is who is responsible for the file.
She works in Spanish and English, and in German after two years living in Germany. For most of our clients that means the whole thing happens in their own language, from the first question to the residence card.
Where she trained
Pamplona first, then Barcelona.
Which is why her bar number is a Navarre one.
She read law at the Universidad Publica de Navarra and was admitted to the Pamplona Bar Association on 28 September 2012, under number 2572. That entry is public and you can read it yourself before you hire anybody: it gives her name, her status and the date she was admitted.
She then took a Master in International Business Law at ESADE Law School in Barcelona, and a course in Skills and Management for Lawyers, which is the part of the job nobody teaches you at university: negotiating, running a team, and telling somebody bad news early instead of late.
Where she has been quoted
Journalists call her when the rules change.
Not paid placements. Reporters working on a story who needed somebody who reads the BOE.
Spanish immigration law moves fast and badly signposted, and when a rule changes the press needs somebody who can say what it means for a real person. Lucia has been the person on the other end of that call for El Pais, The Sunday Times and CEO Today Magazine, among others.
Every link here goes to the original piece. Read them and judge for yourself, which is the point of putting them on a page like this.
What she handles
Spanish visas Lucia Lagunas handles most often
We take on every kind of Spanish visa and residence permit. These five are the ones she runs herself.
At My Spain Visa we handle all types of residence permits and visas. More than ten legal professionals work on them, and they are happy to help with yours, whatever route it turns out to be.
Lucia also coordinates the whole immigration department, so her own caseload leans towards the routes below. If yours is one of them, there is a good chance she is the lawyer you end up working with.
The Golden Visa no longer takes new applications. Permits that were already granted can still be renewed, and those renewals are the part she handles.
The long version
Studies and career, with dates.
Put here so you can check any of it rather than take our word for it.
In her clients’ words
Most of them write her name.
Of the reviews we have archived, 84 per cent mention Lucia by name. These three are published under the client’s own name, and the rest are on our reviews page.
★★★★★We hired Lucia for our initial Visa and were very glad we did. She has since helped us with purchasing property and both of our Visa renewals. She has been an invaluable resource and we plan to continue using her services in the future.
Todd Elliott, Google
★★★★★Lucia is great. Very thorough, always very responsive and a pleasure to work with! My visa was approved and issued in one week from my appointment!
Bill Baron, Trustpilot
★★★★★We chose Lucia and My Spain Visa to help us with our NLVs, and we are so happy we did. We have just received our approved visas in the mail! The process can be very overwhelming and stressful. We would not have wanted to go through it without Lucia’s guidance and assistance. We would definitely recommend using MSV.
Trisha M, Google
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