I transfer abroad
If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción (RAI) and transferred abroad, the conditions for the provision will vary depending on the ground and the duration of their transfer.
If you are gaining contributory benefit or unemployment benefit, in the case of transfer of residence abroad to find or performing work, for international cooperation actions or professional development, it is mandatory to give notice prior to departure to the public employment service and State that this authorizes it. If the transfer takes less than twelve months, providing continuous suspension, if more than twelve months, is extinguished.
If what you are seeing is the RAI, in the case of transfer of residence abroad to find or performing work, for professional improvement or for international cooperation actions, it is mandatory to so inform the public employment service Estatal before departure, and that this authorizes it. If the transfer takes less than six months of continuous, the provision is suspended and if more than six months, is extinguished.
If it does not inform the Public Service of the State Employment abroad, will be an offence which will lead to the beginning of a punitive procedure, the penalty is the extinction of law.
When leaving Spain was discontinued the provision, the allowance or the RAI, which was to draw upon his return, and does not have a job, may request the resumption of the benefit or subsidy or returning to the RAI.
Will receive these benefits from the day following his return to spain, always seek resumption or returning within 15 business days after that date and justify thoroughly one of the reasons given.
If you are gaining contributory unemployment benefit or subsidy and went abroad for one year or more to work, find work, conduct studies to improve their professional qualifications, or by international cooperation actions, the benefit or allowance is extinguished.
If you are gaining the renta activa de inserción and went abroad for six months or more to work, find work, conduct studies to improve their professional qualifications, or for international cooperation activities, such income is extinguished.
If upon return to Spain does not have a job, there shall be entitled to the provision which was interrupted by leaving abroad.
If you are english or spanish and return of a country outside the European Europea or to the european economic area, or Australia or Switzerland, might be entitled to receive an allowance as a person returned emigrant. Or it could also request the renta activa de inserción with.
If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción and went abroad for any reason, if the output is not greater than 15 calendar days, whether continuous or not, during each calendar year, the provision is always fulfil the obligations set forth in the law.
It is advisable to inform the public employment service authorities prior to departure.
The return from abroad, he must appear in the office of the first business day following their return.
If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción and went abroad for any reason, if the stay abroad is for a period continued or not, above 15 days and up 90 calendar days within a maximum period of each calendar year, benefits are put on hold.
Before such departure is mandatory prior notice to the public employment service state and that its consent to such an exit.
If by than 90 days and is not to work, find work, conduct studies to improve their professional qualifications, or by international cooperation actions, the provision or grant is extinguished.
If you perceived benefits and has been registered or registered as a jobseeker for at least four weeks in Spain and went to seek employment to a country of the European Union (EU), The European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you can export the provision for three months, renewable for another three.
It should:
- Seeking the authorization of displacement to the public employment service.
- The document, or request 2 . We give you an information sheet on the issues of concern with regard to the period of residence in another country.
- Register as a jobseeker in the country to which relocates within seven days of the date on which no longer available to the public employment services.
Payment of hazard pay continue to be undertaken using the same system that during his residence in Spain.
The persons who are nationals of countries outside the eu/eea or Switzerland can export the provision to seek employment in these (except to denmark, switzerland, iceland, norway and Liechtenstein), provided that justify the option of registering in its employment services and will develop a work in the country where you intend to move through the corresponding authorization of residence or work.
The persons who are nationals of countries outside the eu/eea or Switzerland, which met the requirements, you can export the unemployment benefits to the united kingdom, application of regulation EC 859 / 2003 allowing for a period of three months, without extension.
- If you are english or spanish and had not worked in spain in the 6 years prior to departure abroad, may be entitled to charge a allowance as person returned emigrantif return of a country outside the EU/EEAneither of Switzerland. Or you can also request renta activa de inserciónregardless of the country.
- If he had worked in spain in the 6 years prior to departure abroad had not been collected and unemployment benefit for these contributions, may request a contributory unemployment benefit if it meets 360 quoted days before departure, or a subsidy if, before leaving had contributed between 90 and 359 days.

- Model contributory official application (PDF, 343 KB)
- Formal model of the request of the unemployment allowance (PDF, 462 KB)
- Communication departure/transfer abroad (PDF, 244 KB)
- Application for leave to shift to a state of the european Union (PDF, 210 KB)
- Request for an extension of the period authorized to transfer to a state of the european Union (PDF, 219 KB)
- Request for the reopening of the period authorized to transfer to a state of the european Union (PDF, 217 KB)