Abroad Life: Visas & Residency - Lifestyle

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

I’m eze, co-founder of Abroad Life. Like most of our team, I’m an immigrant myself — and I know firsthand what moving to Spain really feels like: 47 open tabs, contradictory advice from forums, missed appointments, and the constant fear that one wrong document could cost you months (or your whole plan).

We built Abroad Life to fix that.

Abroad Life is the app that takes you from “I want to move to Spain” to “I made it” — with a clear plan and real experts by your side:

🧭 Personalized diagnosis in 3 minutes: answer a few questions and we tell you exactly which legal path fits your situation (visa, residency, arraigo…) and why.
🗺️ Your step-by-step roadmap: every requirement, document, deadline and estimated cost, adapted to your case.
⚖️ Real immigration lawyers: chat directly with licensed lawyers who handle your process with you.
📲 Track it like a delivery: real-time updates on your process, smart reminders, and documents reviewed before you submit them.
🤖 Abby, our AI assistant: answers your questions 24/7, based only on official sources.

What usually takes 6+ months of research, bureaucracy and uncertainty becomes a guided process. Over 1,200 people from 20+ countries have already started their new life in Spain with us.

We’d love your honest feedback:
👉 If you’ve ever moved abroad (or are planning to), what was the hardest part?

We’ll be here all day answering every comment. Thanks for supporting immigrant-founded products 💜

— eze & the Abroad Life team

Hi Product Hunt 👋 I’m Dani, co-founder and CEO of Abroad.

Why we built this

I’ve migrated three times. In Italy, a law firm we were paying held every document we owned for a month, with our flight already booked. Every morning I emailed; every morning, “we’re on it.” Then they disappeared. In Barcelona, a so-called gestora nearly took €10,000 from us before we understood she wasn’t a gestora at all.

Every time, the lesson was the same: the information exists, but it isn’t for you. It’s scattered across eight government portals, written in legal jargon, behind appointments you can’t get, and nobody is accountable for your case. So you trust whoever you can find, a Facebook group, a cousin, a gestor, and you pay for every mistake in money, in months, or in a visa.

What Abroad does
→ Answer a few questions and in 3 minutes you know which Spanish immigration procedure applies to you, which documents you need, and your first step. Free, always.
→ Your roadmap takes you step by step. Official forms fill themselves from your answers.
→ Upload your documents and AI checks them before anything is filed, so you don’t find out at the appointment.
→ When you want a lawyer, she’s in the app. Licensed, with a name. She reviews, signs and files electronically for you.
→ Track every step live from your phone.
→ Once you’re approved, it keeps going: padrón, health card, bank account, housing, renewals before they expire.

What it isn’t
It’s not an LLM wrapper. The diagnosis runs on a rules engine we wrote with immigration lawyers on current Spanish regulation, and we update it when the law changes. The tech makes it fast; the legal judgment is human.

Where we are
100+ people already got their papers with us before the app existed, with zero ad spend. We’re a team of four, all migrants. Live today on iOS and Android, Spain first; the same engine is being built for law firms and NGOs, and next year for more countries.

One question for you
The diagnosis is free and the execution is paid. We went back and forth on that for months. Right split, or just the safe one? I’d rather hear it from people who build things.

I’ll be here all day answering everything. And if you know someone moving to Spain, send them the link; that’s how we grew so far.

Dani

Hey Product Hunt! 👋💜

I’m Mercedes, an immigration lawyer and part of the Abroad Life team.

My mother immigrated to Spain with my siblings and my grandmother, so I know firsthand how challenging it can be to start a new life in another country: endless paperwork, bureaucracy, lack of clear information, and the uncertainty of not knowing where to begin.

That’s why being part of Abroad Life means so much to me. We’ve built an app that aims to make this journey easier by providing clear information, personalized step-by-step guidance, and legal support throughout the entire process.

As an immigration lawyer, it makes me incredibly happy to help people who are going through the same challenges my family once faced, and to help them start their new lives in Spain with greater confidence and peace of mind.

I’m so proud to be part of this project and a team that’s working to make moving to another country a little easier for everyone! 💜

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I'm Facundo, one of the developers behind Abroad Life. I work on both the web app and the iOS/Android app.

My siblings emigrated to another country, so I've seen up close how much paperwork and uncertainty comes with starting over somewhere new. It's a big part of why I care about getting this right.

As a developer, I want to share the part I see every day: what's under the hood.

🔒 Your documents are encrypted. Passports, visas, ID numbers, addresses: anything sensitive is encrypted before we store it. If you're trusting us with your immigration case, that's the bare minimum.

📷 No printer, no scanner. Point your phone's camera at a document and it's in your file, ready for your lawyer to review.

💬 Your lawyer is one tap away. The chat is real time, shows when she's read your message and sends you a notification when she replies, so you're never left wondering if anyone saw it.

A lot of what you'll see in the app changed because of feedback from our first users, and today is our best chance to get more of it. If something breaks, feels confusing or is missing, tell me here. I'm reading every comment, and there's a good chance you'll see the fix in the app soon.

What's the one thing you'd want an app like this to do for you?