Preparing a family relocation to Andorra

This page isn't only about taxation: it presents the project as a full family relocation, so it doesn't come across as support focused solely on taxes. The route first depends on the main permit holder's status — active residency or passive residency — and then is organised around the spouse, children, accommodation, and schooling. The main difficulty is one of timing: coordinating the move, school enrolment, accommodation, and immigration formalities for several people at once, without the whole family depending on a single poorly-anticipated deadline.

The starting point is always the main holder's status — active if they work or run a company, passive if they live off their assets. The spouse can then obtain dependant residency status through family reunification, generally available after three months of legal, genuine, and continuous residency by the main holder, subject to accommodation and household means. Reunification doesn't automatically grant the right to work: a spouse wishing to work needs to apply for their own permit.

Accommodation needs to suit the size of the household and be documented in every family file. For schooling, Andorra offers Andorran public schools, as well as French and Spanish streams, with international options depending on the parish — the choice of teaching language directly affects the choice of neighbourhood, and sometimes the municipality. These elements need to be planned before the actual move: missing the start of the school year, or accommodation that doesn't meet requirements, can delay the whole family file, not just the child's part of it.

Every family member needs suitable health cover — CASS registration for working members, private insurance for those without an activity status. The spouse's employment, where planned later rather than immediately, needs to be anticipated when choosing the initial status, to avoid an unprepared additional process later on. Finally, family wealth and succession questions deserve to be raised from the point of relocation, particularly where the family retains a home or assets in the country of departure.

A couple with two children, where one parent sets up a company in Andorra while the other wants to resume a professional activity later on. The route typically considered: an active residency application for the parent setting up the business, accommodation chosen based on the desired school stream for the children, family reunification filed for the spouse and children after the first three months, then looking into an activity status for the second parent once the family has settled — without this last step delaying the initial move.