Overview
- The application window closed with 1,174,978 submissions, more than double the government’s initial 500,000 estimate and creating a much larger-than-expected backlog for officials to resolve.
- The Ministry has admitted about 609,737 petitions to trámite, a status that grants a provisional one-year residence-and-work authorization, while roughly 11,000 cases have been finally decided.
- By June 30 roughly 160,000 people who obtained provisional permits had been registered with Social Security, a shift the government says could yield hundreds of millions of euros a year in additional tax and contribution revenue.
- The Spanish Supreme Court refused to suspend the regularization and declined to refer compatibility questions to the EU court, clearing the way for administrative processing to continue.
- Political and enforcement pressure is rising: the Partido Popular has launched parliamentary demands for data and ministerial appearances and the Policía Nacional reports new trafficking routes and operations that led to arrests tied to document-fraud schemes.