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Spain Axes Humanitarian Visa Scheme for Venezuelans

Spain is to end a humanitarian visa programme that has brought in nearly 250,000 Venezuelans fleeing Nicolas Maduro’s regime in under ten years.

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The government will eliminate in June the mechanism that since 2018 has allowed the almost automatic regularization of thousands of Venezuelans, according to newspaper El País.

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By Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español As of June, Spain will no longer grant temporary residences for humanitarian reasons to those coming from Venezuela, as confirmed by Elma Saiz, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and Government spokesman, on the state Radio Nacional de España (RNE).

·Idaho Falls, United States
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Spain will cease granting residence permits for humanitarian reasons in an extraordinary manner to Venezuelan citizens

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The Government puts an end to the process of express regularization for Venezuelans due to humanitarian causes, a system implemented in 2018 that has been able to accommodate more than 240,000 people from that Latin American country in a much simpler and faster way than going to the asylum route.This has been advanced by the newspaper El País and later confirmed by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, who has expl…

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Spain will end in June the path that since 2018 has allowed tens of thousands of Venezuelans to regularize their situation almost automatically. The government will cease systematically granting residence permits for humanitarian reasons to this collective, thus closing one of the most unique – and least discussed – mechanisms of Spanish asylum. After years of internal debate on what to do with Venezuelans, who have come to agree with the system…

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The permit is temporary to reside and work. The initial authorization will be valid for one year, with the possibility of other more stable permits.

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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