ROLE — ACTIVE SOLUTION CONTROL MATRIX. This page is the mandatory C01–C46 stress-test for designing and validating solutions across Memo I–III. It is not a fourth memorandum and not a record of real cases. Each proposed solution must be run through the relevant rows before it is treated as coherent: the solution must not create a new unavailable Belarus document, collapse authentication into substantive proof, override a special protection/status regime, or create a deadline/status conflict. Real-world prevalence and individual acceptance still require case evidence.
Each scenario must be tested through the same chain:
status/person → exact Spanish procedure → fact/document required → Belarusian source/action → access from Spain → representation rule → authentication/translation → Spanish receiving rule → interaction with Memo I/II/III → outcome: PASS / GAP / NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION.
A scenario is not considered solved merely because one memorandum provides an answer. The combined route must lead to a legally meaningful next step and must not require an action that another memorandum identifies as unavailable.
Evidence boundary: where the legal route has not yet been researched for this exact scenario, the row is marked NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION. Do not fill the gap from analogy, practice reports or an unrelated procedure.
USSR/Russia exclusion: Soviet/Russian treaty routes, notes, administrative practice or document-recognition arrangements are not used as a legal basis for Belarus. Do not spend research time on USSR/Russia materials unless a future task expressly asks for historical comparison. Belarus is researched through Belarus-specific, Spain-specific, EU and applicable multilateral sources.
| ID | Scenario | Key legal/document questions | Memo interaction | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C01 | Belarusian resident in Spain needs to register / re-register / dispose of a vehicle in Belarus while remaining in Spain. | Exact Belarus procedure; whether vehicle registration/deregistration falls within Annex 1 No.278; personal appearance vs representative; Belarus-executed POA; technical/title documents; authentication of any Spanish instrument. | Memo II = access/representation; Memo III = authentication; Memo I only if identity/passport becomes an entry condition. | REPRESENTATION GAP — VERIFIED FRAMEWORK. RB4 establishes Law No.313-Z / Council of Ministers No.691. For a Belarusian citizen, vehicle registration and deregistration are within Annex 1 No.278, so representation for those procedures requires a power of attorney executed in Belarus; an apostilled Spanish power does not satisfy that place-of-execution condition. Disposal/alienation of a registrable vehicle is separately caught by No.278 item 2.1. Other vehicle-data changes must still be mapped to their exact procedure. Personal filing in Belarus remains a route; a general remote representative route from Spain is not established where the special rule applies. |
| C02 | Belarusian national in Spain needs exchange/replacement/recognition of a driving licence. | Spanish DGT recognition/canje; Belarus validity/data; professional-driver exception; source confirmation only where the Spanish branch actually needs it. | Memo II = Belarus source/access; Memo III = translation/authenticity where a Belarus licence/document is used; Memo I only if identity becomes an entry condition. | SPANISH RECEIVING RULE VERIFIED. Belarus is not on DGT's current list of countries with an ordinary canje agreement. A third-country licence is ordinarily usable for at most six months after normal residence; a non-professional driver from a no-agreement country must obtain a new Spanish licence. A narrow professional-driver canje exists under separate conditions. Belarus No.441 access remains relevant only to source confirmation/replacement, not as a route to ordinary Spanish canje. |
| C03 | Belarusian person in Spain must enter into inheritance in Belarus. | Opening of succession; applicable Belarus notarial authority; remote notarial actions under Instruction No.63; inheritance certificate; acceptance/renunciation deadlines; representative possibility; identity documents; foreign civil-status/death documents; apostille/translation. | Memo II = access to Belarus notarial/inheritance acts; Memo III = authentication of foreign evidence; Memo I = identity/travel only if required. | PARTLY VERIFIED. Remote Belarusian notarial route includes inheritance-related acts, but full inheritance-from-Spain route and deadlines require dedicated research. |
| C04 | Belarusian person in Spain wants to marry but cannot obtain a certificate of no marriage / marital status from Belarus. | Spanish matrimonial file requires proof of capacity and absence of impediments; Belarus 5.14 may be evidence but is not a universally named mandatory form; force-majeure/simple-presumption route; representation; apostille/translation. | Memo II = source document/access; Memo III = authentication and receiving-side alternative proof. | PASS WITH CONDITIONS / REGISTRO CIVIL ALTERNATIVE VERIFIED. Belarus 5.14 remains source-side difficult because of Annex 1 No.278 representation. On the Spanish side, Ley 20/2011 art.58 requires proof of capacity/no impediments rather than one universal foreign certificate, and RRC art.337 permits civil-status facts of a foreigner resident/domiciled in Spain to be declared with simple-presumption value where normal certificates cannot be obtained because of refugee/asylum status or another force-majeure reason. This is case-specific, not an automatic waiver. |
| ID | Parents / status | Questions to test | Required cross-memo check | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C05-A | Parent 1 Belarusian; parent 2 Spanish. | Spanish birth registration/filiation; Spanish nationality by origin; Belarus citizenship by birth; whether any Belarus document is actually needed for Spanish registration; later Belarus passport/return-document questions. | Memo I only for identity/travel-document issues; Memo II citizenship/document access; Memo III only if a foreign document is actually used in a Spanish procedure. | VERIFIED BASELINE. Once filiation to the Spanish parent is established, the child is Spanish of origin under Código Civil art.17.1(a). The verified Belarus Law No.136-Z rule also attributes Belarusian citizenship by birth where at least one parent was Belarusian at birth, irrespective of place of birth. The child therefore does not use RD 1155/2024 art.159 as the ordinary “foreign minor born in Spain” residence branch. Belarus passport/return-certificate steps are separate documentation/travel questions, not prerequisites for Spanish nationality by origin. |
| C05-B | Parent 1 Belarusian; parent 2 foreign national (not Spanish). | Spanish birth registration/filiation; Belarus nationality at birth; second parent's nationality law and birth place; Spanish nationality branches under art.17; child's residence route if foreign. | Memo I + II + III depending on the second parent's nationality/status and the residence/documentation branch. | VERIFIED CORE / SECOND-PARENT BRANCH REMAINS. The verified Belarus rule attributes Belarusian citizenship by birth through the Belarusian parent, so Código Civil art.17.1(c) is not the ordinary Spanish-nationality route merely because the child was born in Spain. Spanish nationality can still arise under another art.17 branch (for example art.17.1(b) if a foreign parent was born in Spain, subject to its exception). If the child remains foreign, residence depends on the parents' actual status; where RD 1155/2024 art.159 applies, the child needs a valid passport/travel document/cédula plus the Spanish birth certificate. |
| C05-C | Both parents Belarusian. | Spanish birth registration/filiation; Belarus citizenship by birth; whether another Código Civil art.17 branch applies; foreign-minor residence/TIE; passport, cédula or travel-document requirement; later nationality by residence. | Memo I identity/travel; Memo II citizenship/return certificate; Memo III receiving-side sufficiency. | VERIFIED BASELINE WITH IDENTITY/DOCUMENTATION GAP. Belarus citizenship by birth is established under the verified No.136-Z rule. Spanish nationality is not acquired merely by birth in Spain under art.17.1(c) because Belarusian law attributes a nationality; another art.17 branch must be checked separately (including whether either foreign parent was born in Spain). If the child is foreign and art.159 applies, residence may be granted for five years without a visa, but the application requires a valid passport, recognised travel document or cédula plus the Spanish birth certificate. The Belarus return certificate is not automatically treated as that Spanish-recognised document. A child born in Spain may later use the one-year nationality-by-residence period in art.22.2(a) if the residence requirements are met. |
| ID | Couple | Questions to test | Memo interaction | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C06-A | Belarusian + Spanish partner. | Marriage versus autonomous pareja register versus national extranjería stable-partner branch; regional civil-status, cohabitation, identity and authentication requirements. | Memo II documents/access; Memo III authentication/alternative proof; Memo I identity where relevant. | REGION-DEPENDENT / NATIONAL ALTERNATIVE VERIFIED. Regional pareja rules differ materially. Madrid, Valencia, Andalucía and CAPV expressly demand foreign civil-status evidence; Cataluña uses a different birth/cohabitation/public-deed structure; Galicia and Castilla y León add their own eligibility/appearance rules. Separately, RD 1155/2024 allows an unregistered stable-partner immigration branch proved by admissible evidence (normally 12 months' cohabitation, waived with common offspring). A regional registry failure does not automatically defeat the immigration route. |
| C06-B | Belarusian + foreign partner with Spanish residence. | Each partner's source law/status plus the autonomous pareja register or national stable-partner immigration branch; do not assume identical source documents for both partners. | All three memorandums may interact. | REGION-DEPENDENT / MULTI-SOURCE CASE. The Belarusian partner may face Annex 1 No.278 for fresh 5.9/5.14 evidence, while the other foreign partner follows their own personal-law evidence. Regional registry requirements vary. For ordinary reagrupación, RD 1155/2024 separately permits a stable unregistered relationship proved by admissible evidence under the 12-month/common-child rule. |
| C06-C | Belarusian + Belarusian partner. | Potentially two inaccessible source-document sets; autonomous registry versus national stable-partner immigration branch; passports/identity and regional cohabitation rules. | Memo II gap may affect both partners simultaneously; Memo III must not create a double impossible-source prerequisite. | DUAL SOURCE GAP / NATIONAL ALTERNATIVE VERIFIED. A regional register can require two current Belarusian civil-status chains and thus reproduce the Annex 1 representation problem twice. But national extranjería does not universally require regional registration: the statutory stable-unregistered-partner branch may be proved through admissible relationship/cohabitation evidence. Exact result depends on the chosen Spanish procedure. |
The following rows rerun C05 and C06 with a different immigration/protection status. The purpose is to detect whether the proposed memorandum architecture wrongly assumes that every Belarusian in Spain has the same documentary duties.
| ID | Status of Belarusian parent/partner | Special question | Compatibility test | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C07 | Temporary protection. | Which ordinary Registro Civil/family-document requirements remain; whether any protection-specific evidentiary or identity route applies; avoid importing DT2 education rules into family matters. | Special-status rule must prevail over a generic Memo solution where applicable. | NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION. |
| C08 | Extraordinary regularisation / extraordinaria route. | Exact legal basis and date-specific scope; accepted identity documents; effect on birth/marriage/pareja procedures; no assumption that extraordinary migration rules alter Civil Registry requirements. | Separate immigration identity relief from civil-status proof. | NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION; the exact extraordinary regime must be fixed first. |
| C09-A | Recognised international-protection beneficiary. | Risk/confidentiality of contacting Belarus; protection-specific travel/identity rights; family evidence alternatives; interaction with Registro Civil. | Do not require source-country contact where the protection regime makes that inappropriate or unsafe. | PARTLY VERIFIED at EU/protection level; family-registration detail requires procedure-specific research. |
| C09-B | Stateless person / recognised apátrida. | Spanish stateless documentation; no Belarusian-national assumption; birth/marriage/pareja evidence; travel document; nationality of child. | Memo I must switch to statelessness-specific documentation; Memo II Belarus route may be irrelevant or only evidentiary. | NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION. |
| C10 | Digital nomad / telework residence. | Identity/passport continuity; marriage/pareja registration; child registration; effect of expired passport on immigration renewal versus Civil Registry proof. | Do not assume the 19 January Instruction covers this procedure unless its scope expressly does. | NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION. |
| C11-A | Work residence. | Same C05/C06 documentary set plus renewal/TIE identity. | Test Instruction 19.01.2026 scope separately from marriage/birth evidence. | NEEDS PROCEDURE-SPECIFIC VERIFICATION. |
| C11-B | Study stay / student status. | Same family/civil-status issues plus study-status documentation and renewal. | Do not merge estancia and residencia rules. | NEEDS PROCEDURE-SPECIFIC VERIFICATION. |
| C11-C | Arraigo / other ordinary residence route. | Identity-document relief, civil-status evidence, family consequences, renewal. | Check exact arraigo subtype and applicable evidence rules. | NEEDS PROCEDURE-SPECIFIC VERIFICATION. |
| ID | Scenario | Why it matters | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C12 | Belarusian in Spain is divorced in Belarus / has a Belarusian or foreign divorce judgment and wants to remarry in Spain. | Tests distinction between current RB4 No.67 civil-status forms/record information, foreign judgment, recognition/registration and authentication. Memo III cannot treat apostille or a record form as recognition of substantive effects. | PARTLY VERIFIED — Belarus form layer is established; the full remarriage/recognition route remains case-specific. | |
| C13 | Belarusian in Spain inherits Belarusian real estate and then needs to register ownership or dispose of it. | Combines inheritance, notarial remote acts, the RB4 real-estate registration framework (Law No.133-Z; State Property Committee No.29/35/38/39), Annex 1 No.278 representation and possible tax/payment issues. | MIXED RESULT — PARTLY VERIFIED. The inheritance certificate itself is within the closed remote-notarial route under Instruction No.63 and can in principle be obtained remotely subject to the notarial case requirements. Downstream state registration of rights in the Annex 1 No.278 property categories and later disposal can trigger the Belarus-executed-POA rule; disposal is also covered by No.278 item 2.1. Thus inheritance access and property registration/disposal must not be treated as one route. Tax/payment issues remain separate. | |
| C14 | Belarusian in Spain wants to sell/donate Belarusian real estate without travelling. | Tests POA dead-end, special No.278 procedures, foreign POA and the RB4 property-registration/transaction framework (Law No.133-Z; State Property Committee No.29/35/38/39). | REPRESENTATION GAP — VERIFIED LEGAL FRAMEWORK. Law No.133-Z + State Property Committee No.29/35/38/39 establish the property layer. For a Belarusian owner, No.278 item 2.1 requires personal action or a power of attorney executed in Belarus for notarisation/state registration of real-estate alienation transactions. An apostilled Spanish POA does not become Belarus-executed. A no-travel sale/donation therefore has a source-side representation barrier unless a legally sufficient Belarus-executed power already exists or another verified exception applies. | |
| C15 | Nationality-by-residence applicant simultaneously lacks valid passport, birth certificate and criminal-record evidence. | Tests whether Memo I/II/III work together across passport, birth and criminal-record requirements without importing a substitute from another procedure. | Memo I + II + III. | PARTLY VERIFIED WITH DOCUMENT-SPECIFIC SUBSTITUTES. Orden JUS/1625/2016 provides a force-majeure Registro Civil diligence for unavailable birth evidence and permits a properly based/legalised Consular Certificate of Conduct for criminal-record evidence. Refugee/stateless branches have broader specified substitutions. For an ordinary applicant the complete valid national passport remains a separate requirement; no general substitute is created by the birth/criminal-record alternatives. |
| C16 | Applicant changed surname/name through marriage/divorce or foreign civil-status act and Belarus/Spain records do not match. | Tests identity continuity using the current Belarus civil-status form/record layer confirmed by RB4 No.67, plus translation/transliteration and registry rectification. | AVAILABLE WITH CONDITIONS / POSSIBLE REPRESENTATION GAP. Belarus civil-status records/forms needed to link names are established. If a fresh repeat certificate or record-information certificate under 5.9/5.14 is required, Annex 1 No.278 applies to the Belarusian citizen's representative route; a Belarus-executed POA is required. If existing documents already establish the name-change chain, no new Belarus source request is necessarily needed. Spanish/Belarus rectification remains procedure-specific. | |
| C17 | Minor in Spain lacks national passport and needs residence/TIE, school/health registration and later travel. | Forces separation of identity, residence, cédula/other documentation and Belarus return certificate. | PARTLY VERIFIED; Spanish downstream procedures need separate checks. | |
| C18 | Family reunification where relationship documents are inaccessible and the sponsor is refugee/subsidiary-protection beneficiary. | Tests current Interior Nota 110626 alternative evidence, interview/DNA limits and travel-document stage. | VERIFIED FRAMEWORK; individual application remains evidence-dependent. | |
| C19 | Family reunification where sponsor is an ordinary resident, not protection beneficiary. | Tests ordinary RD 1155/2024 relationship evidence without importing protection-specific mechanisms; distinguishes registered partnership from stable unregistered partnership. | Memo II + III; Memo I only if identity/travel-document issues arise. | VERIFIED FRAMEWORK. RD 1155/2024 accepts either an EU public-register partnership or a stable non-registered analogous relationship proved by any admissible evidence; the benchmark is 12 continuous months' cohabitation, waived with common offspring. Protection-specific alternatives are not imported, but autonomous pareja registration is not the only statutory route. |
| C20 | Recognition of Belarusian qualification where diploma exists but transcript is inaccessible / issuer liquidated. | Tests separate mandatory title/issuance evidence and academic-record evidence, archive/successor proof, authentication and procedural extension. | Memo II source/archive access; Memo III authentication; Spanish receiving rule under RD 889/2022. | RECEIVING-SIDE GAP WITH PROCEDURAL EXTENSION. RD 889/2022 art.13 requires the title (or issuance certification) and separately an academic certificate containing duration, subjects and workload/credits. Diploma alone does not substitute the transcript. Art.14 gives 10 working days to correct and may exceptionally extend that period up to 35 working days where documented difficulty obtaining the material is shown. Archive/successor evidence must satisfy the missing academic-information function. |
| C21 | Recognition of Belarusian qualification where no diploma exists but official issuance record survives. | Tests whether official issuance certification satisfies title-existence proof while keeping the separate academic-record requirement. | Memo II + III + RD 889/2022 receiving rule. | PASS WITH CONDITIONS FOR TITLE EXISTENCE. RD 889/2022 art.13.1(c) expressly permits the title or certification proving its issuance. That can solve the missing-diploma branch. It does not satisfy art.13.1(d): the academic transcript/certificate remains separately mandatory unless equivalent evidence contains the required academic data. |
| C22 | Death of Belarusian relative: applicant in Spain needs death certificate/record information for inheritance, pension, bank or Spanish procedure. | Tests No.249 death-document exception, 5.9/5.14, authentication and receiving-side purpose. | PARTLY VERIFIED. | |
| C23 | Belarusian in Spain needs a power of attorney for an action that is not in Annex 1 No.278. | Tests general foreign-POA validity without incorrectly importing the Belarus-executed-power restriction. | FRAMEWORK VERIFIED — OUTSIDE ANNEX 1. The special Belarus-executed-POA condition in No.278 item 1 must not be imported into an action outside Annex 1. A Spanish/foreign notarial power may in principle be used under the ordinary Belarus representation rule after any required apostille/authentication and translation, subject to the specific sectoral rule. Exact action-specific sufficiency still requires checking. | |
| C24 | One person simultaneously has temporary-protection history, later ordinary residence, expired passport and pending nationality application. | Tests temporal/status transitions and prevents using an old status-specific exception after its legal basis ends. | NEEDS FULL TIMELINE ANALYSIS. | |
| C25 | Belarusian child born in Spain later needs Spanish nationality/residence procedure while parent documents have expired. | Tests child's own status separately from parents' passport validity and prevents automatic transmission of a parent's documentary barrier. | NEEDS LEGAL VERIFICATION. | |
| C26 | Spanish authority asks for a Belarusian document that exists in law but can be obtained only through a procedure blocked by No.278 representation rules. | Core cross-memo dead-end test: Memo II must document the access gap; Memo III must test procedure-specific alternative proof; Memo I must not force travel to Belarus. | CORE GAP FRAMEWORK VERIFIED. Where the exact Belarus procedure is in Annex 1 No.278 and the applicant is a Belarusian citizen, representation requires a power executed in Belarus; ordinary remote POA certification is outside the verified remote-notarial list and a Spanish apostilled POA does not cure the place-of-execution rule. The scenario becomes an actual source-side gap only after confirming that the required document/action is in Annex 1, no usable pre-existing Belarus-executed POA exists, and no direct/consular/statutory exception is available. |
Source boundary: these scenarios are derived from issues raised in the private page “From Spanish activists” as hypotheses and stress-test prompts. Statements in that submission are not treated as verified law or administrative practice unless independently confirmed against current primary sources.