The commissioning of the Democratic Memory Lawbetter known as Grandchildren Law, generated an avalanche of consultations and turns of Argentines and Argentines who intend to receive Spanish citizenship. At that, he Consulate decided to expand the daily quotas but there was a complaint stating that the agency is “collapsed.”
The situation was alerted in recent days by the Council of Spanish Residents (CRE) of the Buenos Aires Demarcation. Through a announcement published in Instagramthey said that the great demand exceeded the possibilities of responding by the Consulate, for which they insisted on requesting more resources to expand the possibility of attention.
The document, which was sent to Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations of Spainbegins with a list of the officials who visited the Consulate.
Grandchildren Law: the embassy increased the number of shifts to process Spanish citizenship
He then maintains that it was “all senior officials to whom the CRE Buenos Aires conveyed the urgent need to provide the Consulate of Buenos Aires with the means to deal with the enormous demand for management that it would have to face”.
Immediately, from the Council they warned about the impact that the situation could have on the procedures related to the Grandchildren Law.
This is the legislation that allows children and grandchildren of people born in Spain and exiled during the Franco dictatorship can directly become Spanish citizensenjoying the same rights as those who live there without the need for a visa.
The collapse and the Grandchildren Law
As mentioned, the implementation of the Law generated a high turnout of citizens to the offices of the Spanish Consulate in the City of Buenos Aires. This to such an extent that, as reported by PROFILE this Monday, January 23, the Embassy of Spain should have increased the number of shifts which will progressively go from 100 to 200 daily.
However, from the CRE they maintained that “with the existing personnel, shifts of nationality were granted until September 2023, around 25 thousand” with which “the account is simple, the law is temporary and without staffing the demand is not resolved“.
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From the Council, they maintained that “it is a consular effort, the necessary information window, the predisposition of all existing staff is notorious“.
But beyond that, they pointed out that the Spanish Ministry “does not instruct and does not urgently provide the necessary means to the Consulate General of Spain in Buenos Aires.” Therefore, they warned that if there are no solutions to the claim “the descendants of Spaniards residing in this demarcation (Argentina) they will not be able to acquire the right granted to them by law“.
The benefits of the Grandchildren Law
The new law maintains that Argentines who are benefited will be able to access Spanish citizenship with the same rights as a native Spaniard living in Spain. From working to moving around the European Schengen area.
Those who can access are those children of Spanish women who have married foreigners before the Constitution of 1978, and for that reason they have lost it.
To start the file it is mandatory to pay a fee of 104.5 euros, approximately $15,000 Argentinewhich will not be refundable even if the request is denied.
In addition to Buenos Aires, where they ask to expand attention, there are offices in Córdoba, Bahía Blanca, Rosario and Mendoza.
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