Grandchildren Law: consulates collapsed due to massive requests to process Spanish citizenship

The authorities of the Consulate General of Spain in Buenos Aires They expressed the insufficiency of resources and the collapse in the capacity of attention to the public, due to the massive number of requests they received to process the Spanish citizenship through the Grandchildren Law by the citizens Argentines.

The diplomatic headquarters of the Iberian country are currently overwhelmed and understaffed, to meet the large demand of applicants interested in obtaining the double nationality. The claims of the applicants increase as the months of waiting go by and have no response from the international organization.

In this sense, from the Council of Spanish Residents they maintained that the Spanish Ministry does not instruct or provide urgently with the necessary means to the Consulate General of Spain is Buenos Aires. For this reason, days ago they warned that if there are no solutions, the descendants of Spaniards in this demarcation will not be able to acquire the right granted to them by law.

Law of Grandchildren: they warn that the Consulate in Buenos Aires is collapsed and the demand cannot be met

According to the data released by the National Directorate of Migrations (DNM), between the months of January and July 2022, more than three thousand compatriots left Argentina. While, during the year 2021 more than 32 thousand Argentines emigrate to Spain.

“All of Latin America is happening, but the consulates of Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina are especially saturated. It has been four months since the entry into force of the Democratic Memory Lawthere is a flood of requests for nationality and consultations but there are no reinforcements” emphasized the general counselor of the Spanish citizenship abroad by the Independent Union Central and Officials, Pablo Puertas.

Given this panorama of uncertainty and paralysis of the efforts under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spainthe Executive Power of the European nation ignores the problem and, furthermore, the Ministry of Finance does not authorize the increase in spending to strengthen the response power of the embassies.

Grandchildren Law: good news for the children of legal age of those who apply for Spanish citizenship

What are the requirements for children of Spanish directors?

• People who were born before 9/1985, father or mother with birth outside of Spain and who have obtained nationality before the person was born.
• The citizen must be under 21 years of age, and the mother or father must have been born outside Spanish territory and have Spanish nationality before the applicant was born.
• The applicant must be under 20 years of age, and the father or mother was born outside of Spain and obtained Spanish nationality, after the applicant was born before he was 18 years old.

Grandchildren Law: the embassy increased the number of shifts to process Spanish citizenship

Those suitors who have sent their petition “will be able to process the nationality even if their predecessors have lost or renounced it for political, ideological, belief, or sexual orientation or identity reasons,” stressed the platform’s lawyer ArgentApp that advises Argentines to settle in Europe, Melisa ZanonYo.

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