The Spanish government approved on Tuesday a reform of the law on foreigners to simplify the regularization of migrants in an irregular situation in Spain.
This reform provides, among other things, a reduction in deadlines and formalities for obtaining residence permits, the extension from three months to one year of the duration of the job search visa, or even the creation of new statuses. paving the way for regularization.
This measure could benefit 900,000 people over the next three years, or 300,000 migrants per year, underlined the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz.
The government official indicated that this reform is “the most ambitious and comprehensive” since the adoption of the law 13 years ago. Among the main measures announced, she mentioned the reduction in the length of stay required to access rooting devices, from 3 to 2 years.
Saiz further clarified that all visas will now have an initial duration of one year. In addition, specific protections will be introduced for seasonal migrant workers and conditions for family reunification will be relaxed.
The current regulation dates from 2011 and, since then, several modifications have been made, the last in 2022, in order, among other things, to create “rooting for training”, which allows those who have lived two years in Spain to regularize their situation if they are training in a profession sought by the labor market.
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