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Spanish NGOs push undocumented migrants to apply for regularisation as deadline looms
Reuters ^ | June 29, 2026 | Corina Pons

Posted on 07/02/2026 8:31:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Several non-governmental organisations in Spain are urging undocumented migrants to register in a final push for ​a special mass regularisation process that has attracted around a million people in just a few weeks and ‌is set to end on Tuesday.

In the final hours before the deadline, NGOs were stepping up efforts to contact and advise migrants still trying to gather the documents required to apply for a one-year residence permit, in a country where around 840,000 people work off the books and it can take ​more than a year to obtain legal status.

Rights groups CEAR and Cepaim urged migrants to submit applications even ​if they were still waiting for required documents from home countries like Mali, Iran or Venezuela.

"We're ⁠carrying out a final check of all the people who have come to our offices and who may have been ​missing some documentation at the start of the process," said Elena Muñoz, coordinator of CEAR's legal team.

"If a case is not ​yet complete ... we will submit it before June 30 so that they do not miss the opportunity to benefit from the regularisation process."

Between April and June, the Spanish government received almost double the 500,000 registrations it had expected.

NGOs are also trying to ease anxiety among migrants who have ​not yet applied, in a country with a relatively open approach to foreign arrivals.

On Friday, the number of applications submitted ​reached 1.27 million, according to Cesar Perez, the union leader for Spain's immigration officers.

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1 posted on 07/02/2026 8:31:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Spanish NGOs, formerly funded by USAID, now fronting Globalist Cabals of Anti-Western Destroyers.

That’s better.


2 posted on 07/02/2026 8:35:12 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Spanish NGOs

Working against their own country's best interests. Just like here in the US.
3 posted on 07/02/2026 8:35:52 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Flooding Spain with criminals and deadbeats that will suck the place dry


4 posted on 07/02/2026 8:42:49 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Macoozie

Time to revive the Inquisition and aim it at those verminous NGOs. Where’s Franco when they need him, or the great RC heroes of the battle of Lepanto?


5 posted on 07/02/2026 8:45:58 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: MinorityRepublican

Spain’s unemployment rate climbed to 10.83% in the first quarter of 2026, up from 9.93% in the previous period

On Friday, the number of applications submitted ​reached 1.27 million , add that to the employment rate ,LOL


6 posted on 07/02/2026 8:49:13 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A deadline is racist and discriminatory! No deadlines, ever.


7 posted on 07/02/2026 9:08:35 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Joe McDonald. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Strange considering how many Spanish citizens already don’t work that they want even more dead beats.
Of all the places I have traveled, Spain had the most sitting doing nothing.
By a huge margin, Israeli are the hardest working.


8 posted on 07/02/2026 9:16:08 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: butlerweave

Yep sounds like Spain.
The few people that really work there work very hard.
The rest seem to party till 4am and then wake up around 2pm, eat and then start all over again.


9 posted on 07/02/2026 9:18:25 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: MinorityRepublican

These NGOs never seem to run out of funding or motivation, do they? Meanwhile, regular Europeans deal with the crime and strain on services. Spain (and the rest of the West) needs to put their own citizens first for once. Sovereignty isn’t a dirty word.


10 posted on 07/02/2026 12:20:37 PM PDT by CandyFloss
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To: MinorityRepublican

My ancestors booked passage to the New World, leaving Spain behind over 400 years ago-fortunately, they never looked back-gracias a Dios. It sounds like it is just bad now as it was back then...


11 posted on 07/02/2026 1:51:40 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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