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(Reuters)Spain to introduce job-matching plan for migrants granted legal status
Release Date
2026-05-22
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Reuters
Summary
Spain is implementing a large-scale regularisation programme aimed at granting legal status to around 500,000 undocumented migrants while introducing a job-matching system to connect them with formal employment. The government argues that migration is essential to sustain economic growth, address labour shortages, and support pensions and public services as Spain’s population ages. However, the policy has faced criticism from far-right groups.
In the programme’s first month, nearly 550,000 applications were submitted, and more than 90,000 temporary work permits have reportedly been granted. The government plans to cooperate with industries such as construction, tourism, transport, and care services to match migrants’ skills with labour demand. Officials say the policy will help move workers out of the informal economy, though researchers have warned about possible disruptions to informal labour markets and stressed the need for stronger labour inspections.
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2026-06-11
In Barcelona, the Pope highlights Europe’s major failure: “Immigration cannot be resolved through fear-mongering”(Atalayar)
Spain
2026-05-29
Inside Spain's extraordinary regularization drive(InfoMigrants)
Spain
2026-05-22
Spain to introduce job-matching plan for migrants granted legal status(Reuters)
Spain
2026-05-06
Government in Spain classifies immigration regularisation documents under secrecy law(Euro Weekly News)
Spain
2026-04-30
Spain: Children and dependent adults with disabilities can obtain residency alongside their parents(InfoMigrants)
Spain
2026-03-26
Spain’s migrant regularization marks a rare progressive turn in Europe(Monthly Review)
Spain
2026-03-17
Immigration and the labour market in Spain(Real Instituto Elcano)
Spain
2026-03-10
The seventh regularisation of undocumented migrants in 40 years exposes the need for greater migratory policy planning(Real Instituto Elcano)
Spain
2026-02-18
Police Leak Shows Spain’s Mass Regularisation Could Benefit Up to One Million Migrants(VisaHQ)
Spain
2026-02-11
Brussels Raises Alarm Over Spain’s Plan to Regularise 500,000 Undocumented Migrants(VisaHQ)
Spain
2026-02-09
Undocumented migrants welcome Spain’s upcoming extraordinary regularisation as ‘act of justice(VisaHQ)
Spain
2026-02-04
‘When did empathy become exceptional?’: what’s behind Sánchez’s plan to ‘regularise’ 500,000 undocumented migrants in Spain(The Guardian)
Spain
2026-01-31
Spain Shows Another Immigration Policy Is Possible(JACOBIN)
Spain
2026-01-28
Spain green-lights extraordinary regularisation for 500,000 undocumented migrants(VisaHQ)
Spain
2025-12-19
Immigration and the labour market in Spain (II): Latin American immigration(Elcano)
Spain
2025-08-22
Balearic Islands, new critical route for irregular immigration in Europe(Atalayar)
Spain
