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Spain: Regularisation process

01 June 2000

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The regularisation of migrants process in the present Aliens' Law ended on 31 July with 208,000 requests being made, for 155,000 places. If the figures are confirmed, over 50,000 immigrants will be excluded, and if these are added to those who were unable to present their applications because they did not fulfil the necessary requirements (such as being in Spain since 1 June 1999), there may be around 100,000 undocumented immigrants. Solidarity organisations and trade unions have expressed alarm about the fate these immigrants. The figures show the failure of the immigration policy because, after the largest regularisation process carried out to date, the figures for irregular immigrants remains static. In fact, every five years, the government is obliged to resort to regularisation procedures which are always qualified as "exceptional" and are announced as "the last" of such policies.

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