US EditionSpain Is Suddenly Rushing to Legalise 400,000 Immigrants
- Spain's new immigration law took effect on May 20, 2025, introducing updated residency procedures and visa categories for foreigners nationwide.
- This law aims to unify immigration office criteria, reduce permit processing times, and address asylum seekers' legal uncertainty amid rising undocumented migrants.
- Key changes include lowering residency wait times from three to two years, expanding family reunification age limits from 21 to 26, and creating five arraigo permit types.
- The government plans to regularise approximately 300,000 to 500,000 immigrants present before December 31, 2024, through a "transitional, exceptional and time-limited regime," pending parliamentary approval.
- While the law offers new legal routes, criticisms warn it may push thousands, including asylum seekers and minors, into irregular status, prompting urgent efforts to pass a citizen-backed regularisation initiative.
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By Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español This Tuesday, the new Immigration Regulations in Spain came into force, simplifying and streamlining procedures for the regularization of foreigners, in addition to reducing the timeframes for some regular migration avenues. The Government estimates that, with this regulation approved in November 2024, 900,000 people could be regularized in the next three years. With its entry into force, the Executive justifies, …
The Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez is preparing to vote for a huge regularisation of irregular migrants in Spain for nearly 500,000 people, while many other European countries are thinking only of expelling. The ruling party is taking over the torch of a parliamentary legislative initiative which has won 800,000 signatures. The right-wing opposition opposes it.
After the criticisms received by the new regulations on foreigners that will push thousands of asylum seekers into irregularity, the Executive has urged the processing of the ILP stalled in Congress and has shared with the deputies a draft of its new proposal, to which the Diario has agreed.esThe Government attempts to fix in extremis the effects of the regulations on foreigners that pushes thousands of asylum seekers into irregularity The Peopl…
The PSOE has unlocked in Congress the process of the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) that calls for the regularization of more than half a million immigrants living in...
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