Cuba It is the country where the most people obtained Spanish nationality by the Democratic Memory Law (also known as the Grandchildren Law), according to official data.
Since the approval of the law in October, the Consulate General in Havana has received 4,041 nationality applications, of which 1,970 had already been registered at the end of January, according to the data to which it has had accessEuropa Press.
Cuba, followed by Mexico and Argentina, is one of the countries where the most nationality approvals have occurred due to the Spanish Democratic Memory law, which benefits descendants of up to the second generation (grandchildren) of Spanish citizens with Spanish nationality.
Between the three countries there is a total of 14,610 applications entered and 4,774 nationalities registered in six months.
The consulates of Latin American countries are at the top of the list of regions where the most naturalization requests have been received since the law came into force on October 19.
The regulations had generated great expectations among Cubans. In Havana, the appointment system to obtain nationality was availablestarting November 21.
Since then, the number of procedures has skyrocketed and has led topost office collapse that have been left without stamps, in part, due to the increase in requests under the new Grandchildren Law.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Cuba came to recognize that the exponential increase in procedures has generated adelay in legalizationof documents in a context where it is estimated that some five million Cubans could benefit from this process of the new law.
According to data from the Register of Spaniards Resident Abroad (PERE), more than 160,000 Spanish citizens lived in Cuba at the beginning of 2023.
The figure represents1,873 more than those who lived in the country as of January 1, 2022, when there were 158,960, and represents an increase of 1.7% (47.12 people) compared to the data as of January 1, 2022.
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