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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consulate webpage says it’s taking 8 weeks to turn around a student visa. They are also doing walk-ins again, 9-12 am mondays and Thursdays. I’d go in person with the forms filled out and inquire tomorrow.

http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Consulados/WASHINGTON/es/Consulado/Paginas/Requisitos%20y%20tramites%20consulares/Visados-y-NIEs.aspx[/quote]

I’d actually ask at the consulate if she could somehow use the tourist visa as a temporary backup if the request for the student visa will take a long time. Maybe Spain would officially let a student do that and she wouldn’t have to lie.

But I think the real issue is that, for omicron lockdown purposes, Spain might treat visitors coming in on a student visa better than visitors coming in on a visitor’s visa.

If she can still go, things to think about:

- If she gets stuck for a year because of omicron, where would she rather get stuck?

- If she gets stuck in Spain for a year, how will her U.S. school respond?

- Does the organization arranging the study abroad opportunity have plugged-in people who’d really care about the well-being of your kid? How did it handle the kids it was serving in March 2020?

- Can your kid get travel insurance or student health insurance with medical evacuation coverage that would cover people with Covid? And how would the health coverage work if she got COVID in Spain?

- Can she afford to buy a big bag of lockdown food (say, cereal, tuna, cookies, peanut butter, etc.) and stick it in a closet or corner somewhere?

- Has she handled her own medical office visits at least once, and has she gotten herself on a commercial flight at least once?

If she looks at tips like those and thinks, “Wow, an adventure,” that’s a sign going to Spain would be fun. If she looks at the list and gets scared, maybe she should stay in the U.S. this year and go to Spain next year. [/quote]

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