The possibility of benefiting from the Spanish “Grandchildren Law” is extended until the end of 2025

AREQUIPA, Peru – Emigrants and descendants of Spaniards who want to apply for citizenship of that country under the Democratic Memory Law, popularly known as the Grandchildren Law, will be able to do so until the end of 2025, the Government of Spain announced.

The period to present the documentation required for this procedure expired in October 2024, two years after coming into effect. With the recent extension, the application for nationalization under the Grandchildren Law will be available until October 2025.

A newspaper report The reason points out that the The announcement was made this Thursday by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory of Spain, Ángel Víctor Torres, during an informative breakfast organized by the Europa Press agency.

According to the note, at least 69,000 people from all over the world, the majority residing in Latin America, have become Spanish citizens thanks to the regulations.

With 22,479 applications approved until last January, Cuba is the second country in the world with the most grants of Spanish nationality through the Grandchildren Law.

Who can opt for the “Grandchildren Law”?

With the Democratic Memory Law, Cubans who are children of a father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, who originally would have been Spanish, and who, as a consequence of having suffered exile for political, ideological or belief or political orientation reasons, can obtain Spanish citizenship. sexual identity, had lost or renounced Spanish nationality.

Sons and daughters born abroad of Spanish women who lost their nationality by marrying foreigners before the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution may also benefit from the Law.

It also includes the sons and daughters of legal age of those Spaniards whose nationality of origin was recognized by virtue of the right of option in accordance with the provisions of this Law or in the seventh additional provision of Law 52/ 2007.

First of all, you must present a document that proves the identity of the applicant and a birth certificate, issued by the local Civil Registry in which you are registered.

It will also provide a literal birth certificate of the applicant’s father, mother, grandfather or grandmother, who would have originally been Spanish.

If the application is formulated as a grandchild of a originally Spanish grandparent, a literal birth certificate of the father or mother – the one that corresponds to the line of the Spanish grandfather or grandmother – of the applicant will also be provided.

It will include documentation that proves the exile status of the father, mother, grandfather or grandmother (proof of exile status). In cases where there is no birth registration of the parents or grandparents, the interested party may provide the baptism certificate from the parish or diocesan archive, along with the negative birth registration certificate issued by the corresponding Registry.

To prove the exiled status of the father, mother or grandparents, proof of the exiled status, they will present:

• Documentation that proves having been a beneficiary of the pensions granted by the Spanish Administration to exiles, which directly and alone proves exile.
• Documentation from the United Nations International Refugee Office and the Refugee Offices of the host States that assisted the Spanish refugees and their families.
• Certifications or reports issued by political parties, unions or any other entities or institutions, public or private, duly recognized by the Spanish authorities or the host State of the exiles, which are related to exile, either because their members have suffered exile.

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