Overview
- The application window ended on June 30 with media and administrative tallies reporting roughly 1.2–1.33 million submissions, far above the government’s initial 500,000 estimate.
- The Spanish Supreme Court on June 24 opened a five‑day interlocutory procedure that raised multiple EU‑law doubts and could suspend the decree or refer questions to the EU Court of Justice.
- About 360,000 files had been admitted to trámite by mid‑June but many of those applicants still lack essential identifiers such as NIE numbers or Social Security registrations, preventing them from legally signing contracts.
- Local councils and NGOs played a central role by issuing tens of thousands of vulnerability reports and running reception points, with Catalonia issuing some 60,346 reports and Córdoba recording about 10,000 electronic submissions.
- The process has become a heated political issue with opposition warnings about legality and electoral effects and government defenses of its humanitarian and labour arguments, while embassy and document legalisation delays have left some applicants unable to complete files.