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Spain: 250,000 migrants ordered to leave.

01 January 2002

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The Spanish government will inform around 250,000 undocumented migrants, (who are not included in any of the extraordinary regularisations, see Statewatch vol 10 nos 3 & 4, vol 11 no 1), that they must leave Spain within 15 days. If they do not leave they will be expelled and banned from returning to Spain for a period of three years. The measure will also be applied to immigrants who have an offer of employment. In January the government sent a circular to its delegates in which they were instructed to deny work and residence permit requests submitted after 14 January 2002 through any process other than the quota system. This puts an end to any attempts to regularise the almost 250,000 unregularised migrants living in Spain. The annual quota of workers is a complementary procedure to the general regime, according to which, in certain circumstances, a person can request work and residence permits when they have a job offer. The measures included in the circular letter put an end to this possibility.

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