Spain Migrant Regularisation Sparks EU Concern
- Spain has allowed around half a million undocumented migrants who arrived before December 31, 2025, and meet certain criteria to apply for a one-year residence permit and work rights.
- European Union officials have privately expressed concerns that Spain's broad migrant regularisation may contradict EU migration policies and send mixed messages about irregular migration.
- There is worry among EU officials that regularised migrants could use Schengen area freedoms to travel and possibly settle in other EU countries without proper authorisation.
- Spain's migrant regularisation contrasts with the wider European Union trend of tightening asylum rules and accelerating deportations under recent reforms and the European Pact on Migration and Asylum.
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On 27 December, the Council of Ministers approved a draft decree to amend the Aliens Regulations. Its purpose is to give legal cover to an extraordinary regularization of immigrants. It is basically that they can obtain a residence and work permit for several hundred thousand people (an estimated 800,000 people) who reside in Spain in an irregular situation. They would have to prove at least five months of continued residence in Spain, have arri…
The Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE) has issued a distress call to the Moncloa Palace. In a letter sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the group warns that the consular network is stretched to its limits and cautions that the regularization of migrants will critically exacerbate the already heavy workload in consular offices. Read more
The European Union warns that regularisation is legally a national decision, but cannot have collateral effects on the rest of the Union.
El Periódico
elcorreoweb.esThe European Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, warned the Spanish government that "a residence permit is not a blank cheque", in reference to the regularization of more than half a million people approved by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, during a debate in the Chamber. Continue reading...
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