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[Perilla]

Many posts focus on the difficulty that non-EU passport holders have in obtaining legal work in the EU, but it's not impossible. MOD EDIT

For north Americans, the Language and Culture Assistants in Spain programme probably represents the best opportunity, offering 2,000 teaching placements all over Spain each year:

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[naturegirl321]

People are right when they say there aren't many opps out there, but there are a few.

1. The best is the one you posted, about the teaching assistantships through the Spanish Ministry of Education. It's governmental, so they get the visa and you'll get a stipend, about 700 euros to live on. Some people have even gotten housing, which greatly helps.

Fulbright also has teaching internships.

2. Other than that, you could get a student visa and work PT while on that.

One option would be go to through Franklin Institute's Master in Bilingual and Multicultural Education that allows you to teach in schools and earn a masters degree in the process.

3. If you've got your own business, you might be able to get a self-employment visa. You WILL have to prove that you are currently employed and make enough to support yourself. Ask the embassy for more info.

4. If you're married to a Spaniard you can work in Spain. Spanish citizenship through descent might also be an option.

5. The last option that I know is to pay for a visa. Fees can be pretty steep though.

CIEE has a Language and Culture Assistantship Programme in Andulucia (which is basically the same as the governmental programme mentioned in the OP, but it's just in Andalucia and you have to pay to apply.

English Unlimited has been known to help with visas and finding internships.

Best Programs has been known to help with visas and finding internships.

Anyways, those are the only ones I know. Best of luck to anyone who goes to Spain. It's a beautiful country.

[spiral78]

1. A school technically can hire a non-EU teacher IF that teacher has a specialisation or skill that no EU candidate for the job can match - and which is needed.

I do not know of anyone who has successfully done this in Spain, though I do know several teachers in other Western European countries who have got jobs in this way (I am one).

For Spain, it would probably be something like:

Teacher X has advanced post-grad degrees and publications in something like comparative Spanish dialects and how they affect English language learning, hence can possibly teach English to a range of Spanish native speakers more effectively than other teachers.

This would not apply to private language schools: probably only universities and international schools.

Further, the teacher would need people at that institute to KNOW his/her work enough to jump through the legal hoops - local contacts are nearly always needed in such a case.

I am also not sure whether the every-popular

2. marraige to a local option has been mentioned. Probably the most common.

[naturegirl321]

[spiral78]

This should probably have been here, rather than my starting a new thread:

http://www.studenttraveler.com/mod-Pagesetter-viewpub-tid-10002-pid-9.html

Sorry - wasn't thinking.