0.80
Neutralized60% impact weight
Bringing undocumented workers into the formal labour market helps offset Spain's ageing-driven workforce and contribution shortfalls.
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Spain approves extraordinary regularisation of undocumented migrants
In November 2024 the Spanish government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced an extraordinary regularisation programme, with Inclusion, Social Security and Migration Minister Elma Saiz committing to grant residence and work permits to roughly 300,000 undocumented migrants a year for three years. Framed as a response to labour shortages and an ageing population, the plan followed a citizens' legislative initiative backed by more than 700,000 signatures, and the implementing royal decree was later approved in 2026 to legalise an estimated half a million people.
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In November 2024 the Spanish government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced an extraordinary regularisation programme, with Inclusion, Social Security and Migration Minister Elma Saiz committing to grant residence and work permits to roughly 300,000 undocumented migrants a year for three years. Framed as a response to labour shortages and an ageing population, the plan followed a citizens' legislative initiative backed by more than 700,000 signatures, and the implementing royal decree was later approved in 2026 to legalise an estimated half a million people.
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