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Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality 2013
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 57,842 7,285 2,738 5,603 73,468 261,295 28.1
Men 26,959 3,659 1,351 2,818 34,787 117,911 29.5
Women 30,866 3,621 1,387 2,783 38,657 143,304 27.0
European Union 467 110 53 104 734 5,360 13.7
Men 199 54 25 51 329 2,360 13.9
Women 268 56 28 53 405 2,999 13.5
Rest of Europe 594 139 53 119 905 3,468 26.1
Men 223 44 20 42 329 1,240 26.5
Women 371 95 33 77 576 2,228 25.9
Africa 13,747 3,540 1,273 2,561 21,121 59,938 35.2
Men 8,331 2,055 760 1,558 12,704 36,480 34.8
Women 5,409 1,483 513 1,003 8,408 23,438 35.9
North America 617 32 4 36 689 2,301 29.9
Men 271 7 0 9 287 898 32.0
Women 346 25 4 27 402 1,403 28.7
South and Central America 38,890 3,169 1,296 2,621 45,976 180,554 25.5
Men 15,452 1,303 500 1,046 18,301 70,844 25.8
Women 23,429 1,863 796 1,573 27,661 109,659 25.2
Asia and Oceania 3,449 275 29 160 3,913 9,282 42.2
Men 2,430 186 22 110 2,748 5,817 47.2
Women 1,018 89 7 50 1,164 3,457 33.7
Unknown nationality and stateless 78 20 30 2 130 392 33.2
Homes 53 10 24 2 89 272 32.7
Dones 25 10 6 0 41 120 34.2
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.

Last update: October 9, 2014.

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.

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 "..".