There Is No Retirement Visa - the Non-Lucrative Residence Is the Route
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Mexico on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
91 exceptions recorded across 34 countries · none match Mexico to Spain · Residency as a retiree
Spain has no residence permit written for retired people. What a pensioner uses is the non-lucrative residence of articles 61 and 62 of the Reglamento, which asks for means and forbids work, and asks nothing about age, pension or retirement. The practical effect is that a pension counts as what article 62 calls a periodic source of income, and the figure is the same 400% of the IPREM a month that applies to anyone else on that route, with 100% more for each dependant.
At a glance
- A retirement-specific permit
- None in the Reglamento - the non-lucrative residence is the route
Title IV of Real Decreto 1155/2024 lists the temporary residence chapters, and retirement is not one of them.
- What you must show
- 400% of the IPREM a month, or a periodic source of income
Article 62(1), which accepts a periodic source of income rather than a capital sum.
- Each dependant
- 100% of the IPREM a month, in addition
Article 62(1)(b) of Real Decreto 1155/2024, quoted on the income record.
- Work
- None - the route forbids it
- Age
- Not a condition anywhere in the article
Requirements
- The requirements of the non-lucrative residence, and no others
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Mexico
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Las personas extranjeras que deseen residir en España sin realizar una actividad laboral o lucrativa deberán contar con medios económicos suficientes para el periodo de residencia de la autorización, o acreditar una fuente de percepción periódica de ingresos, para sí mismo y, en su caso, su familia, en las siguientes cuantías, que se establecen con carácter de mínimas y referidas al momento de solicitud del visado o de renovación de la autorización:»The means provision, and the words that make a pension usable: a periodic source of income is an alternative to holding the sum.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Spain's official state gazette, which also publishes consolidated texts carrying their own amendment history.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: A deadline set by Council of Ministers decision rather than written into a statute will not appear in the consolidated text at all, which is exactly the case with the Democratic Memory Law's option period. The statute gives the mechanism; the date that mattered to applicants lives in a separate decision we have not read.
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Practical notes
This record exists to say there is nothing here rather than to leave a reader searching. The whole of the answer is on the income record.
Spain's tax treatment of a foreign pension is a separate question and is decided by the double taxation treaty with the country paying it. None of those treaties is read in this corpus.
- issuesReal Decreto 1155/2024, artículo 62
Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado
About this source
Spain's official state gazette, which also publishes consolidated texts carrying their own amendment history.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: A deadline set by Council of Ministers decision rather than written into a statute will not appear in the consolidated text at all, which is exactly the case with the Democratic Memory Law's option period. The statute gives the mechanism; the date that mattered to applicants lives in a separate decision we have not read.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source