Spain will Provide Unauthorized Migrants Work and Residency Permits

The goal of the program is to increase the number of older workers in the nation. It will go into effect in May of next year. Even while other European countries look to close their borders to unauthorized immigration and asylum seekers, Spain has mostly remained open to welcoming migrants.

In an interview on Wednesday, Migration Minister Elma Saiz stated that Spain requires about 250,000 registered foreign workers annually to sustain its welfare state. She argued that “cultural wealth and respect for human rights are not the only goals of the legalization policy; it’s also prosperity.”

“We can say that Spain is a better country today,” Saiz said on Radio Nacional de España, the country’s national radio.

Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain, has frequently characterized his administration’s immigration policy as an attempt to address the nation’s low birthrate.

The new legislation, approved Tuesday by Sánchez’s left-leaning minority coalition administration, gives migrants more work protections and streamlines administrative processes for both short-term and long-term visas. It also increases the duration of a three-month visa that was previously granted to job searchers to one year.

Many people view the African archipelago as a step toward continental Europe, as young men from Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania travel there on perilous sea voyages in search of better employment possibilities overseas or to escape political unrest and violence back home.

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