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Spanish nationality grants. By reason for granting. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By reason for granting. Provinces Catalonia
Total Residence two years Residence ten years Births in Spain Marriage to Spanish Son grandson of Spanish Other reasons Not stated
2022 34,694 10,546 10,913 10,469 1,715 115 936 0
2021 50,343 14,945 13,418 16,359 4,158 274 1,189 0
2020 23,016 7,805 8,452 3,328 1,885 59 1,487 0
2019 53,084 22,738 8,396 17,080 4,494 237 138 1
2018 18,952 7,023 5,922 4,857 1,064 21 59 6
2017 6,564 3,067 2,038 1,090 282 8 20 59
2016 18,813 7,413 5,581 4,659 1,030 13 42 75
2015 15,330 6,139 4,032 4,192 801 17 28 121
2014 21,658 10,322 5,577 4,250 1,322 23 55 109
2013 73,468 43,726 12,300 12,634 4,665 2 58 83
2012 25,891 16,772 3,670 3,712 1,645 35 33 24
2011 28,603 19,007 3,839 3,453 2,177 40 29 58
2010 29,150 21,127 2,941 2,631 2,280 88 34 49
2009 19,566 13,464 2,147 1,722 2,009 139 47 38
Source:
2009-2013: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
2014-2018: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
2019-2022: Ministry Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.
Notes:
The total includes the number of nationality grants in which is not include sex.
L'any 2017 ha disminuït el nombre de concessions per causes administratives.

Last update: December 21, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Nacionality
Legal bond that joins the person to the State and of which a series of rights and duties are derived.

Methodological aspects

The statistical of grants of the Spanish citizenship provide information regarding the number of foreign nationals who access Spanish citizenship by residence in Spain, in the conditions established in the Civil Code: by possession of state (Art. 18 CC), by adoption (Art. 19 CC), by choice (Art. 20 CC), with a naturalization card (Art. 21 CC) or by residence (Art. 22 CC).

This statistical includes only those cases of acquisition of citizenship by residence in Spain, this being the most common means for foreign nationals.

For the acquisition of the citizenship by residence it is necessary to have lived in Spain in a legal way, continued and immediately former to the request during a period of ten years, five, two or one, according to the cases:

  • Deu anys: general rule.
  • Five years: for the people who have been recognised as a refugee.
  • Two years: for those people originally from Latin America countries, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or of Sephardic origin.
  • One year: for those people who are in the following situations:
    • a) they have been born in Spanish territory;
    • b) they have not exercised appropriately the faculty of opting;
    • c) they have been subject legally to the protection, guardianship or tutelage of a citizen or Spanish institution for two consecutive years, even if they continue in this situation in the moment of the request;
    • d) it's been a year that they are married with Spaniard and are not separate legally or de facto in the moment of the request (it is understood that the spouse who lives with Spanish diplomatic officer or consular agent accredited abroad has legal residence in Spain);
    • e) they are widowers of Spaniard if in the death of spouse there is no legal or de facto separation;
    • f) they have been born out of Spain of father or mother, grandfather or grandmother who originally have been Spaniards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".