Requirements for a visa to travel to Spain
Consult sections Consular Services y Visa Requirements
Requirements for the legalization of signature and certification of documents
The documents of Public Notaries of Singapore must be legalized previously by the Academy of Law (http://www.sal.org.sg/), then by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (http://www.mfa.gov.sg) and finally be submitted in the Embassy for the legalization of signature with effect in Spain. Other documents of official institutions are only required the legalization by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore previous to its presentation in the Embassy. The Consular fee is S$15.00
Certification of authenticity of photocopies or similar documents. The fee for each certification is S$12.50
Legalization and official certification of a translation done by a private citizen. The fee is S$37.50 for each page translated.
Lottery scam
Loterías y Apuestas de Estado (LAE) would like to inform the general public that a number of groups of criminals, of various nationalities, are using the prestige and the commercial names of the Spanish Lottery by fraudulent means in several countries, particularly in countries in the south-west of Asia and the Pacific, and countries on the American continent. They move with ease around the whole world and use mobile telephones, PO boxes, provisional or false addresses (including real addresses of official Spanish organisations), as well as names that bring to mind prestigious institutions ("el Gordo", la Primitiva", "European Lottery Commission", etc.) They also forge the printed sheets and signatures of various banks.
In order to carry out the fraud, the procedure that is generally followed consists of informing the potential victims that they have been the lucky winner of a substantial prize (even if they have not participated in any draw), although they cannot collect this prize until they have paid an amount going towards the taxes, bank costs, delivery costs or insurance processing, etc. Usually, the fraudster warns their potential victims that the deadline to pay these charges is very soon and that their right to collect the prize is about to expire.
Spanish Lottery prizes are always free of taxes, and the Spanish Police has already arrested and subjected to legal procedures some of the members of groups who were operating from Spain.
Therefore, when you are offered "prizes" that seem to be linked to the Spanish Lottery, DO NOT PAY any amount. Likewise, we would be grateful if you could inform local authorities of these crimes.
For more information: http://onlae.terra.es/