Joseph A di Paolantonio
Kriszta Satori#BBCNews - Spain approves plan to give around 500,000 undocumented #migrants legal status
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy511nln2xvo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy511nln2xvo
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@fulelo Why is this news today? This was approved a couple of months ago and has been causing some delays at the immigration office for a while (they didn't add any more staff to process the paperwork for the sudden spike of 500,000 people, and it's not clear if there is a good way of doing that since it's not a sustained increase).
Earthworm 🐌The regularization is these days all over the news here, because the decree is published today and the administrative process will open tomorrow on Thursday.
We'll see how the logistics will play out, but it seems that they try a new model, with online-applications and a heavy involvement of the public postal service (who incorporated staff specifically for this).
Of course, a bottleneck are also the embassies where people need to get documents before handing them over to the Spanish administration.
Time will tell and of course a lot could have been done better, but I am cautiously optimistic.
Some details and criticism about the extraordinary regularization of the 500 000 migrants in Spain.
https://mastodon.social/@ruinas/116408313272990510 (in Spanish)
