Spain to Offer Legal Status to 500,000 Undocumented Migrants

Spain will approve an extraordinary grant of legal status to undocumented migrants on Tuesday, the government said in a statement.

The move aims to “guarantee rights and provide legal certainty to an existing social reality.” About half a million people could benefit, provided they were in Spain before Dec. 31, have no criminal record and can prove at least five months of uninterrupted residence in the country.