The regularization of migrant people approved by the Government takes up a good part of the public debate. One of the most relevant social measures of the legislature and which has not been without controversy, both due to the reluctance of the right and the exclusion of stateless persons. In...
The extraordinary regularization of immigrants – whose application period began on April 16 and will end on June 30 – is not the first to be carried out in Spain. During the Presidency of Felipe González, 174,011 people were regularized (1986, 1991-92, and 1996), with Aznar, there were 503,327 (2000...
The president of the Madrid Business Confederation-CEOE (CEIM), Miguel Garrido, has branded the extraordinary regularization of immigrants as a "short-term fix" and has called for medium and long-term technical planning, based on the "real needs" of the economy. "The regularization approved by the Government is a short-term fix, without planning and...
The presidential candidate of The Republicans (LR), Bruno Retailleau, has hardened his speech against Spanish immigration policy and has opened the door to a possible reestablishment of border controls between France and Spain, in response to the announcement of the regularization of nearly 500,000 irregular migrants promoted by the government...
The General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions has asked all prisons to transfer detailed information about the extraordinary regularization process to foreign inmates, to prepare a statistical record of applications among the inmate population, to provide documentation "as soon as possible" and to provide linguistic support when necessary. According to the communication...
The extraordinary regularization approved by Pedro Sánchez's Executive accelerates access to legal residence in Spain and opens the door to voting for thousands of people, although not in the short term. Nor will all migrants advance at the same pace towards that right. The key difference lies in the nationality...
The billionaire Elon Musk has once again attacked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whom he has accused of "high treason" for the extraordinary regularization process for immigrants that begins this Monday. "The dirty Sánchez is guilty of high treason," the businessman has written in a message on the social...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has lashed out at the "hypocrisy" of the PP regarding the regularization of migrant people, recalling that the proposal arose from a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) that at first had the support of the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In his opinion,...
Vox will bring to the Plenary Session of Congress this week a motion for the Chamber to urge the Government to annul the decrees that include the regularization of immigrants approved last Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, as well as the norm that reinforces universality in access to public...
The minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, assured this Saturday that the right is uncomfortable that Spain maintains its economic growth rate while the Government promotes an extraordinary regularization of migrant people: "It is what bothers that ultra and neoliberal wave". During his speech at the Global Progressive...
The Council of Ministers approved last Tuesday the Royal Decree that will start the process of regularization of immigrants who already reside in our country. To carry out the application procedure, some Social Security, Immigration, and Post Office branches will be available. In addition, it can also be done online. Specifically,...
As Demócrata reported, the Government approved this Tuesday the reform of the Immigration Regulations that will allow the regularization, at least, of 750,000 migrants. As of Thursday, April 16, all interested persons who meet the requirements will be able to start their application through the Mercurio platform. Consult the full text...
This April 14, the Government has approved in the Council of Ministers the extraordinary regularization of foreign persons, a process whose effective start will take place this Thursday and which is expected to conclude at the end of June, according to the calendar advanced by the Executive. The measure, pending the...
The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, has advocated for the extraordinary regularization of migrant people as a “necessary” measure both for the construction sector and to guarantee access to decent housing. As he/she has explained, this decision responds to a double reality: on the one hand, the need...
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the royal decree regulating the extraordinary regularization process for migrants, which will be published this Wednesday in the BOE and will come into force on Thursday. For its deployment, the Executive has incorporated more than 550 additional professionals who will attend in 450...
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has denounced this Wednesday that the regularization of "more than a million irregular migrants" is "inhumane", "unjust", "insecure" and "unsustainable", and has stressed that it clashes with the migratory policy of the European Union and with the opinion of the "majority of...
The extraordinary regularization of immigrants already has a “manual”. The Executive has detailed this Tuesday the access criteria, deadlines and procedure to access a residence and work permit, in a process that seeks to bring out employment and provide legal coverage to hundreds of thousands of people who already live...
The regularization of migrants that the Government has just approved has in the Mercurio platform, the telematic system that channels residence applications in Spain and that will absorb the bulk of files, a critical point. What is Mercury Mercurio is the online system that allows to submit applications for residence, work, or rootedness authorizations without going...
The secretary general of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, announced this Monday that his party will file an appeal before the Supreme Court against the extraordinary regularization of immigrants and will demand its precautionary suspension as soon as it is approved by the Council of Ministers, presumably this Tuesday. In an appearance before...
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has reiterated this Tuesday in the Senate that the extraordinary regularization of migrant people promoted by the Government "has no impact" on the health system, by recalling that this collective "already has healthcare assured" in Spain since the General Health Law of 1986.During the...
The Joint National Security Commission, which brings together Congress and Senate, has given the green light this Tuesday to an initiative of the Popular Party to create a working group formed by deputies and senators with the aim of examining how the extraordinary regularization process for migrants launched by the...
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, denounced this Wednesday the “deeply anti-democratic overtones” that, in her opinion, the migrant regularization plan has and the “massive” naturalization linked to the Democratic Memory Law, warning that it could modify the distribution of “up to ten seats” in the...