Career advice: How to Land an Overseas Job Despite Visa Obstacles

Your first step should be to double-check the procedures needed to obtain a work permit with additional lawyers. Once you're clear on what steps must be taken, your job will be to locate other people of your nationality who have secured a visa in Spain in the past year or two. Find out what they did to get settled into their jobs. If others can do it, so can you.

Once you're armed with both the legal information and some successful examples, return to your interviewing. Seek out employers who need your skills and convince them during an interview how you can be an asset. After you have done this, bring up the visa issue and tell them about the successful cases you've uncovered. Substantiate what you say with details. Explain that you aren't raising a problem, and that you're offering a solution. You'll likely find a sponsor if you can show your prospective employer how others have successfully done it.