STUDENT VISA PROGRAM
(Updated 2025-2027)
Our School "Internacional del Español" is an Acredited Institution which can grant you Official Documents and Official Certification that allows you to process a 6 months or 1 year Student Visa.
STUDENT VISA
Schools in charge
Internacional del Español or, IE - www.diplomaie.com
Registration, Paper work, Admission Letter.
Cristobal Colon Spanish School or, CCSS - www.colonspanishschool.com
School in charge of your Spanish Course.
NOTE: The Spanish classes can only take place once you have gotten your new Student Visa. Both Schools are located in the same building. Same Directors.
Which countries need a Tourist Visa to enter in Ecuador: Find your Country HERE
Which countries need a Student Visa or other type to enter in Ecuador: Those non-listed above.
We are a formally allowed school to process your Student Visa

Check our IE School out here: ttps://portal.trabajo.gob.ec/setec-portal-web/pages/operadoresCapacitacion.jsf
STEP 1:
Choose: NOMBRE COMERCIAL
Write: IE INTERNACIONAL
Click: Find or Buscar
STEP 2:
Find the Status: CALIFICADO 🙋
Fees:
$100 for registration and paper work.
Please fill both: IE School Form and Government Visa Form - Do it in a clear hand written and send us it back in a WhatsApp image: HERE
- For a 6 months Visa it requires a 80 lessons Program - $640
- For a 1 year Visa it requires a 160 lessons Program - $1280
IMPORTANT: Please make sure you definitively wish to apply for one of these programs above, as once the process has begun, there is NO OPTION for a refund under any circumstances EXCEPT if the issue comes from our School, since our institutional documents, your passport and personal details will be officially registered with the authorities in Ecuador.
REFUND POLICY: Our School will refund the 95% of the Spanish Course only if it is danied because of our school issues.
1st. step
- Send us a copy of your Passport in color to work on all necessary documents to process your Visa.
- Send us the payment receipt ($740 or $1380)
If you are in Ecuador
- Send us your actual Visa Status: Type and expiration date.
- Copy of last stamp of your last entrance to Ecuador
- 5.5 px Photography backgrounded in white and,
- Please Translate & Notarize these:
A. Bank Account status with no less than US$1000 during your last 3 monts of transacctions.
B. Police report document
NOTE:
Applicants need to work on A and B documents if applying from any Spanish speaking Country.
Applicants N0 need any lawyer to process your Visa.
RECCOMMENDED TRANSLATOR : Certified translator & Notarizer in Quito - Ecuador: Daniel Hooft +593998035879 (Belgium). You can call him directly. He will need 3 or 4 days to have your documents both translated and notarized. He will use: NOTARIA 24 or, NOTARÍA 40 based in Quito.
2nd. step
If you are NOT in Ecuador
No worries, You can do this from your place.!! Anyway, in any case Student Visas can only be processed via Online.
Once you are ready with all IE School and your Personal Documents:
- Create an account in the Ministry Official Website: https://serviciosdigitales.cancilleria.gob.ec/authentication Use your email address, user and password.
- Upload one by one each of all these documents. Follow what the site requires.
3rd. step
Once all PDF documents are uploaded, the Ministry will ask you to pay $50 ussing your CC, then, you will be asked to find out your Visa, online, in about 60 to 90 days.
In order to obtain your New Online Student Visa you will be asked to pay for it in between $90 to $200. This cost will deppend on the country of the applicant comes from.
NOTE: If you are in Quito, we can support you uploading all this. At no cost.
Once gotten the Visa:
Plan the perfect schedule to complete the correspondent Spanish Course at CCSS.
Complete the Course at CCSS during the first 3 months of your new visa period.
At CCSS, Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 18:00 (Take 3 or 4 hours minimum)
If ONLINE LESSONS, this can take place from Monday to Saturday in na previous planned schedule during the afternoons and evenings.
Note that each online lesson will be considered and signed as two taken. Please do 2 hours as minimum per day.
Re-newing your Visa
Need to start from the beginning as a new Visa Application. Same stuff, same costos, same documents to upload. Same Process. (Except our IE registration fee)
Applicants can re-new the new student Visa up to two more times.
PAPER WORK:
Mandatory requirements from the Consulate of Ecuador
Plese find all required documents in pdf that you need to collect before applying for a Visa: https://www.gob.ec/mremh/tramites/concesion-visa-residencia-temporal-estudiante
Once accepted, we will need about two hours to prepare and send you all theses documents to your e-mail address for you to process your Visa, vía Online uploading one by one each pdf document sent: https://serviciosdigitales.cancilleria.gob.ec/authentication.
IE School Paper Work
- Admission Letter from our main school "IE School"
- Study program timetable for those 6 or 12 months Visa
- Payment receipt for the chosen Spanish Program
- Legal and updated School documents
- Our School ID - official document and RUC (Taxes Doc)
- School Director´s ID
- School address in Quito + Contact information
Any aditional Questions?
- WhatsApp up to us 24/7: HERE
- School Director: Marcia García