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Spain: Regularisation of immigrants

01 September 1996

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24,389 immigrants, the majority of them Moroccan, applied for legal status under a one-off regularisation programme between April and August 1996. This is fewer than the 60,000 expected by the Ministry of Labour; this is an indication of the difficulties posed by the amount of documentation required. Estimates of the number of immigrants unable to use the procedure exceed 100,000. Only those who were already resident in Spain before 1 January 1996 and in possession of a limited work permit were eligible to apply for the residence permit. This scheme is the result of an agreement in February to modify Spain's restrictive Foreigners' Law of 1985, and is in sharp contrast to the tough French anti-immigration line. Independent, 23.8.96; Guardian, 24.8.96; Times, 20.8.& 3.9.96.

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