Spanish Embassy in Algiers

Algerian citizens need a visa for Spain, obtained before travel. Whether the Spanish embassy in Algiers takes applications itself or through a visa centre is set out on its official website.

In 2025, Spain’s embassy in Algiers received 66,803 applications for short-stay Schengen visas and issued 41,760. 19,913 applications were refused, a refusal rate of 32.2%. In 2024 the rate was much the same, 32.2%. Applications rose by 3% compared with 2024 (64,630).

Over 2023–2025 the rate ranged from 32.2% (2024) to 33.3% (2023).

Spain issues Schengen visas at 2 locations in Algeria; this office handled 56% of their 119,634 applications in 2025. Refusal rates elsewhere: Oran 29.8%, which makes Algiers the highest of the group. Each office serves the applicants who live in its own consular district, so the rates also reflect who applies where, not only how strictly files are assessed.

Across all Schengen consulates in Algeria, 31.3% of applications were refused in 2025; Spain’s rate worldwide was 14.6%. Spain received the 2nd largest number of applications of the 19 Schengen states represented here.

Multiple-entry visas made up 36.8% of those issued. The statistics count applications, not people, and include every nationality that applies here, not only citizens of Algeria.

The Spanish embassy in Algiers is one of 3 missions of Spain in Algeria. Consulates: Oran and Algiers. Algeria in turn has 2 missions in Spain, its embassy being in Madrid.

About the Spanish embassy in Algiers

It appears in official lists as Embassy of Spain in Algiers.

Address and contact

The record for the Spanish embassy in Algiers includes an official website. Its exact position is not recorded, so the map marks the town.

Spanish citizens travelling to Algeria

Spanish citizens need a visa for Algeria, obtained before travel.

When the Spanish embassy in Algiers is closed

The next closures of the Spanish embassy in Algiers for public holidays in Algeria are New Year's Day on Friday 1 January 2027 and Amazigh New Year on Tuesday 12 January 2027; it may also close for Constitution Day (Día de la Constitución) on Sunday 6 December 2026.

Before visiting the Spanish embassy in Algiers

Current procedures for the Spanish embassy in Algiers, including any appointment system, are on its official website, linked on this page.