Overview
- Government sources told multiple outlets on Monday that about 900,000 people have submitted requests to the extraordinary regularization program and that roughly 360,000 of those files have been admitted to trámite.
- Officials stress the raw total is provisional and will be filtered for duplicates, incomplete paperwork and other anomalies which could materially reduce the final count.
- Authorities face specific verification bottlenecks including duplicate records, delays in getting foreign criminal‑record certificates, limited interoperability with EU identity systems and pressure on consular channels in countries such as Morocco and several West African states.
- Police unions and public‑sector groups say internal forecasts had anticipated higher numbers and are calling for more staff, better IT and stronger document‑checking teams while pro‑regularization groups are pressing for an extension of the June 30 deadline.
- This drive is already the largest recent regularization in Spain, surpassing past processes in scale, and it will affect migrants’ ability to work once their files are admitted to trámite while also shaping political debate and public services in the run‑up to next year’s vote.