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Spain: Council of Ministers fix new contingent

01 July 1995

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On 9 June the Spanish Council of Ministers fixed the new "cupo", the contingent of working permits for this year. There will be 25,000 authorizations to work for non-community foreigners. However, this does not mean that 25,000 immigrants may enter Spain. There are still 17,000 immigrants waiting from last year to gather the necessary requirements to have recourse to the cupo. Of the remaining 8,000 permits for new immigrants 2,500 are intended to be used for domestic servants (from Peru, Philippines and the Dominican Republic) and 5,500 for the seasonal agricultural sector (mainly Moroccan immigrants). Without the cupo there is practically no possibility to obtain a work permit. The number of cupo for each province differs due to the demands of the labour market but is ridiculously small. It reflects the frequently repeated official line: "We can't admit more immigrants than the labour market needs". Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi (Spain).

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