The Directorate-General of Police issued 1,734,945 Foreigner Identity Cards (TIE) in 2025 to citizens of 163 different nationalities, a figure it expects to exceed \u201csignificantly\u201d this year due to the extraordinary regularisation of migrants.<\/p>\n
This was revealed by the Head of the Foreigners<\/a>\u2019 Documentation and Appointments Section, Juan Gabriel Zarza Mart\u00edn, at the First Immigration<\/a> Congress of the Official Association of Administrative Agents of Madrid (ICOGAM), held this Thursday at the Movistar Arena in Madrid.<\/p>\n In terms of nationalities, Zarza Mart\u00edn reported that Morocco topped the list in terms of the volume of applications processed, with an increase of over 300,000 cards issued, followed by Colombia and Venezuela. As of May, the police had issued a total of 721,968 cards this year.<\/p>\n He also pointed out that the 201 documentation units may encounter \u201cproblems\u201d when issuing the cards, such as language barriers with users, constantly evolving regulations and communication issues with the other agencies involved. He further noted that the police are the \u201cfinal link\u201d in the administrative chain and the main target of public complaints.<\/p>\n In view of the expected increase due to the extraordinary regularisation process, he explained that an emergency plan has been activated, including the creation of additional posts, the conversion of National Identity Card (DNI) counters to TIE counters, the recruitment of temporary civil servants, and the opening of offices in the afternoons and on Saturdays through the use of overtime. He also noted that, in most provinces, a pilot scheme is in place to automatically allocate appointments once an immigration decision has been granted.<\/p>\n According to data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security<\/a> and Migration, almost 1.2 million foreign nationals have applied for the extraordinary regularisation of migrants, the deadline for which was 30 June. The event was also attended by the Secretary of State, Pilar Cancela, who highlighted the increase in staff and budget allocated by the Ministry of the Interior, with the aim of handling the volume of TIE applications that the regularisation process will require.<\/p>\n During her speech, Cancela referred to the pilot project mentioned by Zarza Mart\u00edn and said that if it had worked in all the autonomous communities, it would have been \u201ca dream come true\u201d for migration management. \u201cThat would have put everyone\u2019s minds at ease, but in the end it was not to be,\u201d lamented the Secretary of State, who nevertheless clarified that progress is still being made in that direction and that the Ministry of the Interior is placing \u201cspecial emphasis\u201d on this final phase.<\/p>\n She also sent a reassuring message to all applicants for regularisation, guaranteeing that administrative silence would not be interpreted as a rejection. \u201cEveryone who has submitted an application will be notified of a decision, whether it is a confirmation or a refusal,\u201d she stated, whilst also pointing out that the authorities have a three-month deadline to reach a decision, which may be temporarily suspended if it is necessary to rectify documentation.<\/p>\n In response to those who accuse the government of creating a \u201cpull factor\u201d, the Secretary of State argued that the real magnet for immigration is the country\u2019s strong economic performance. \u201cThe main pull factor is Spain<\/a>\u2019s economic and social situation of sustained growth. Migration flows increase when Spain posts the best growth figures,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Directorate-General of Police issued 1,734,945 Foreigner Identity Cards (TIE) in 2025 to citizens of 163 different nationalities,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,3366,826,605,599,600,8091,17,13983,3596],"class_list":["post-52627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-balearics","tag-foreigners","tag-immigration","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-social-security","tag-spain","tag-tie-card","tag-tie-residence-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627","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=52627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}