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Spanish nationality grants. By reason for granting. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants by residence . By reason for granting. Provinces Catalonia. 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 23,066 2,632 1,232 2,220 29,150 123,721 23.6
One year, born in Spain 1,860 432 134 205 2,631 6,357 41.4
One year, marriage with Spaniards 1,656 240 131 253 2,280 12,062 18.9
One year, children or grandchildren of Spaniards 52 21 3 13 89 597 14.9
Two years, Iberoamerica plus 17,465 1,444 744 1,474 21,127 96,207 22.0
Five years, asylum 6 2 0 0 8 103 7.8
Ten years of residence 1,978 482 218 263 2,941 7,969 36.9
Appeal for reconsideration 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Other reasons 16 5 0 5 26 181 14.4
Not listed 33 6 2 7 48 245 19.6
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.