I had the same experience as Mauricio Tamayo who wrote a review here as well except he had better luck than me cuz it seems he got his visa in the end. Balcells was unprofessional, unresponsive and time wasting. They were impossible to get a hold of most times taking 4 to 6 days to answer a simple email. Not to mention all the holidays they take between the Catalan and national holidays. They totally go MIA and leave their clients hanging whenever they feel like it. Thanks to Balcells and the poor job that Beatriz Lategui did with my case I have been in Spain almost a year without a visa. The digital nomad visa was a visa that I totally qualified for and all the documentation needed. I am very proactive and did a lot of research and asked her numerous preventive questions to address potential issues and circumstances. When I arrived in Spain Beatriz said that there were some documents missing and just when we thought that was going to be a problem the documents appeared within days from the US and sent to me on time. So that was not the reason for the delay. Beatriz did exactly what I asked her not to do which was submit my application towards the end of my 90 days as tourist eating up any buffer time. She blamed it on documents but none of the documents took time to be found or arrive. 20 days later when "extranjería" responded I find out she had submitted several legal documents with a basic translation rather than a "sworn translation" which is the standard procedure. What visa lawyer does that? not even an amateur makes that mistake. They claimed that they wanted to save me money but they never ran that by me, which means they robbed me of the choice. In the end even thought they said they would take care of the translations, I had to find the translator myself cuz she sent me a link for me to do it instead of doing it herself, 4 days prior to the due date. She submitted everything in the nick of time or late. Then she asked for an "extension" only telling me after the fact that the office of "extranjería" may or may not accept it. what?? and you tell me that after the fact? In the end the office considered my case "desistido" which means the equivalent to not having submitted things appropriately or on time. I switched lawyers to a more competent attorney but she inherited a "problematic case" and had to file an appeal which in Spain they take up to 8 months to answer if they do at all. Thanks to Balcells my artistic career here has been at a complete stand still because I am not legal to work. The nomad visa allowed me to take advantage of some degree of local work but that was not possible since they messed it all up. I ended up in limbo in the country and now have to leave for 90 days to come back and start all over again. They are horrible inconsiderate people and they don't give a damn about their clients. I would not waste any time or money with them. They are nothing but a headache and a bad experience.
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