Über eine Million Nachkommen von Spaniern haben die Staatsbürgerschaft beantragt, was die Konsulate überwältigt
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-12-01/over-a-million-descendants-of-spaniards-have-applied-for-citizenship-overwhelming-consulates.html
Von zedBXL
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It’s a plague also for Italy and feels very fucked up that those people have better access to an easy citizenship than foreigners working their ass here for many years.
Spainexico
argentine here (with italian citizenship becouse of my grandparents)
since now it’s more hard to get the italian citizenship (now only people whose grandparents were italians can ask for it, before there was basically no limit), probably people will switch and try to get the spanish one
and basically there is an entire continent wich can apply for it, lol, you better change your rules or 1,3 million will be nothing
I’m guessing this is mostly because of economic reasons?
Since the headline is misleading: this is now a new law, and in fact this deluge is due to the law that was already active being about to end. Other European countries also grant citizenship for having a parent or grandparent from that country, Spain isn’t doing anything new here.
Okey. Honest question: If majority of the Latin America get the citizenship, can Spain take over the South America again?
And 99% of them will use it not to come live in Spain but other EU countries instead.
Good. Try to get them to come and work in EU.
My father is Greek, mom’s Brazilian, a couple of years after me and my brother were born in Brazil, my father registered me and my brother, in Greece, with birth certificates, it says country of birth Brazil. He retired in 2006 and never went back to Greece, we got passaports in 2019 through the Greek consulate in Brazil and it was really easy. When asking, the Consul was adamant we were Greek citizens and could live in Greece with no problems…. In 2023 when my father died, I went to Greece for the first time to sign papers and meet family, I made my ID card and AFM (tax number kind of) with no issues.
It’s all the trouble because people don’t register their kids in their original country when they’re born? So people try to get documents after their parent passed?
Marvelous way to change the voting poll by 6%. Imagine that: a citizen that may have never lived in a country, having a say on its democratic elections. Not a minor fraction, but a full 6% (expected if the law is not stopped).
Makes one wonder if legislators have it this way just to get a bigger voting pool that keeps them in power.
Irony, isn’t it. It’s like reverse colonization.
I’m on of them. In my case, if I had be born a couple of years later (or if my mother had been my father) I would have been a citizen since birth, so this feels like righting a wrong.
The issue is that the LMD was passed without establishing a centralized process for the applications – so each of the consulates has their own approach.
It’s a total disaster from my personal experience in applying.
The amount of people here that know jack shit about Spain and Hispanic people…
One of the biggest mistakes of the EU was giving away passports so easily to people who make no contribution the country.
I always think it’s funny that descendants of European emigrants or colonizers are the ones who get the privilege of becoming citizens of the first world so easily, when they are the ones most likely to be privileged in their own Latin American countries.
Meanwhile those with Indigenous or African ancestry are the ones most likely to be the least privileged or most marginalized in their own countries, but they get no fast-track citizenship to the first world, yet white, indigenous, and black Latin Americans are all mostly culturally similar (in each country, respectively).
The majority are Argentines, it must be that Milei’s Freedom does not convince them and they prefer the Spanish socialist dictatorship.