{"id":51688,"date":"2026-07-07T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:41:18","slug":"this-is-the-profile-of-the-1-1-million-applicants-for-extraordinary-regularisation-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51688\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the profile of the 1.1 million applicants for extraordinary regularisation in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tOver 50% of applications already processed<\/a><\/p>\n

\tLatin America and North Africa: the main regions of origin<\/a><\/p>\n

\tAge and gender<\/a><\/p>\n

\tMethod of submission<\/a><\/p>\n

\t160,000 new Social Security registrations<\/a><\/p>\n

\tEducation and language proficiency<\/a><\/p>\n

The breakdown of data relating to applicants for the extraordinary regularisation scheme<\/a> launched by the Spanish Government last April provides an interesting average profile of the foreign nationals seeking to regularise their residence in Spain.<\/p>\n

Thus, a quick overview reveals that applicants are predominantly male, from Latin America or North Africa, of working age, and with advanced educational and language skills.<\/p>\n

Over 50% of applications already processed<\/p>\n

The figures provided by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration<\/a> regarding the extraordinary regularisation process launched between 16 April and 30 June are striking.<\/p>\n

In total, 1,174,978 applications have been received, far exceeding the forecasts made for this process. According to the Ministry, by 2 July, 609,737 had been processed \u2013 that is, 51.9% of the total.<\/p>\n

Of the total applications, 79.6% are authorisations granted on the basis of exceptional circumstances due to strong ties to the country, whilst the remaining 20.4% are authorisations for applicants for international protection.<\/p>\n

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\nVenezuelans rank third in terms of the number of applications under the special regularisation process. Pictured: members of the Venezuelan community in Spain \u2013 REUTERS\/SUSANA VERA<\/p>\n

Latin America and North Africa: the main regions of origin<\/p>\n

As regards the geographical profile of applicants, it is confirmed that Colombians and Moroccans are, in percentage terms, the two largest nationalities among applicants.<\/p>\n

Specifically, 25.9% of applicants are Colombian nationals \u2013 that is, 304,319 people \u2013 whilst 13.3% are Moroccan, totalling 156,272.<\/p>\n

The other nationalities with a significant presence amongst applicants for extraordinary regularisation are as follows:<\/p>\n

\tVenezuela (11.8%)
\n\tPeru (8.8%)
\n\tHonduras (4.8%)
\n\tParaguay (3.8%)
\n\tAlgeria (3.4%)
\n\tSenegal (2.9%)
\n\tPakistan (2.5%)
\n\tArgentina (2.3%)
\n\tOthers (20.5%)<\/p>\n

Clearly, the regions of the world with the highest representation in regularisation applications have been Central and South America (67%, for historical and linguistic reasons); Africa (22.9%, with a significant proportion from the northern part of the region, including Morocco and Algeria); Asia (8.3%); and non-EU Europe (1.1%).<\/p>\n

In terms of where applications were submitted, the highest percentages correspond to the major cities and the Levantine region:<\/p>\n

\tMadrid (17.23%)
\n\tBarcelona (16.36%)
\n\tValencia (6.38%)
\n\tAlicante (6.23%)
\n\tMurcia (3.85%)<\/p>\n

Interestingly, a total of 452 applications (139 appointments allocated) were processed from Ceuta, and 743 (144 appointments allocated) from Melilla.<\/p>\n

\"Actualmente,
\nCurrently, the Moroccan community is the only foreign diaspora in Spain to have exceeded the one-million mark\u00a0– Depositphotos<\/a><\/p>\n

Age and gender<\/p>\n

According to the report published by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, 87% of applicants are of working age \u2013 that is, between 16 and 64 years old \u2013 and 81% are under 45.<\/p>\n

By age, the largest group is that of people aged between 25 and 34, accounting for 31.3% of the total, followed by those aged between 35 and 44 (21.6%) and between 16 and 24 (17%). Six out of ten applicants (59.4%) are under 34 years of age.<\/p>\n

By gender, the majority of applicants are men (57 % compared with 43 % women), although in the case of minors and those aged between 45 and 54, the distribution is equal.<\/p>\n

Method of submission<\/p>\n

As regards the method of submitting applications, 83.2% have been processed online, with just 16.8% submitted in person. According to the Ministry, some 200,000 applications have been submitted at 448 post offices, Social Security offices and immigration offices throughout the country.<\/p>\n

The government will set up a number of post offices across the country, with special opening hours, to accept in-person amendments from applicants who need to provide additional documentation. They will have until 30 September to do so.<\/p>\n

\"Oficina
\nSo far, the regularisation process has resulted in more than 159,000 new registrations with Social Security. Pictured: Social Security One-Stop Shop – PHOTO\/ARCHIVE<\/p>\n

160,000 new Social Security registrations<\/p>\n

To date, the extraordinary regularisation process has resulted, as of 30 June, in a total of 159,097 new Social Security registrations. Of these, 83.4% have been registered under the General Scheme, with 77.3% on permanent contracts and 22.7% on fixed-term contracts.<\/p>\n

By sector of activity, the majority of these registrations were in the hospitality sector (24.4 %) followed by retail (12.7 %), administrative and support services (12.1 %), construction (11.5 %), agriculture, livestock farming, forestry and fishing (9 %) and transport (7 %).<\/p>\n

Education and language proficiency<\/p>\n

During the extraordinary regularisation process, a survey was carried out amongst adult applicants to ascertain their educational background and language proficiency.<\/p>\n

Of the 36,187 valid responses received so far by the Ministry (23% of those submitted), 84% of applicants state that they are fully proficient in Spanish.<\/p>\n

In the case of autonomous communities with a co-official language, 40% state that they know that language.<\/p>\n

With regard to educational attainment, 67% have completed post-compulsory education (43% have completed upper secondary education or vocational training, and 24% have completed university education), whilst the remaining 33% have completed compulsory education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 50% of applications already processed Latin America and North Africa: the main regions of origin Age and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22299,22300,389,826,17117,22301,154,18056,3644,2264,5402,9598,10235,1086,17],"class_list":["post-51688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-america-latina","tag-amerique-latine","tag-colombia","tag-immigration","tag-inmigracion","tag-la-colombie","tag-latin-america","tag-maroc","tag-marruecos","tag-morocco","tag-portada","tag-sociedad","tag-societe","tag-society","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}