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Spanish nationality grants. By reason for granting. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants by residence . By reason for granting. Provinces Catalonia. 2023
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 47,019 6,998 2,692 5,616 62,325 243,481 25.6
One year, born in Spain 8,639 2,318 919 1,854 13,730 48,184 28.5
One year, marriage with Spaniards 2,520 257 152 261 3,190 19,811 16.1
One year, children or grandchildren of Spaniards 311 14 11 28 364 2,072 17.6
Two years, Iberoamerica plus 26,834 2,733 815 1,871 32,253 130,128 24.8
Five years, asylum 26 2 0 3 31 258 12.0
Ten years of residence 7,933 1,515 756 1,504 11,708 39,406 29.7
Appeal for reconsideration 603 99 28 67 797 2,748 29.0
Other reasons 153 60 11 28 252 874 28.8
Not listed 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Source: Ministry Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 8, 2024.

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.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.