The beneficiaries would be people who live and work in the country currently without papers. The project had more than a stagnant year and could reduce insecurity and unprotection.
The government of Spain You are working to carry out a measure that could assume the greater regularization of foreign persons in an irregular administrative situation In the country since 2005. its executive resumed negotiations to approve the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP), A proposal to grant residence and work permits to about 470,000 people arrived until before December 31, 2024.
Immigration: Spain would regularize half a million people
After unlocking of its parliamentary process in September 2024, carried out by the Congress table, The next step is to agree a definitive text between the matches to take it to your vote in Congress. According to the draft of the proposal, which the newspapers accessed El País and Europa Press, the Socialist Parliamentary Group presented a document with a specific regularization figure: a “unique exceptional circumstances.”
This authorization would allow foreign persons who were already in Spain before December 31, 2024 reside and work legally throughout the national territory. The text is still subject to possible changes and the requirements to access this will be determined later through a royal decree.
Among the criteria that are expected to include are:
- The absence of criminal record
- The vulnerability situation
- The way people can demonstrate their continued permanence in Spain.
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The draft insists that regularizing those who are already part of Spanish society is a form of Reduce insecurity and unprotection generated by administrative limbo. The impulse of this measure coincides with the application of the new Foreigner Regulationannounced as a tool to more flexible and improve foreigners’ access to residence permits.
However, both the government itself and organizations admit that This regulation leaves an important number of people out. Among them, asylum seekers who gave up the process and migrants in a situation of vulnerability that cannot meet the required requirements.
The ILP as a solution to the Foreigner Regulation
Socialists recognize these limitations of the regulation and propose that the ILP is a solution for those cases that are left out. The exposure of socialist draft reasons underlines the Central role of migration in the history of Spainboth in its past and emigrants issuing country and in its present and future as a receiving country.
The proposal that now promotes the executive of Pedro Sánchez It could mean A turning point. If you achieve a majority support from the Congress, It would mean formal recognition to people who already work and live in the European country despite not having basic rights.
Source: Ambito
