More than 2.5 Million Foreigners Ask for Citizenship via 'Grandchildren' Law' and Could Vote

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The Law of Democratic Memory , known as 'the law of grandchildren', opens the door to more than 2.5 million foreigners to obtain express Spanish nationality. The descendants of exiled persons by the Civil War and Francoism and the children of women who lost their nationality when they married were able to apply for citizenship thanks to this rule until October last year, when, after an extension, the authorized deadline ended. An entry slot with…

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Pedro Sánchez faces an unprecedented wave. The Democratic Memory Law, popularly known as the grandkids law, has caused a marked increase in applications for nationality. 531,297 applications have been approved at consular offices so far, with only 7,032 rejections. The rest are still in process. In the last 24 to 48 hours, new data confirm the magnitude of the phenomenon. More than two million have already started the procedures, according to AB…