Some 60,000 Cubans are waiting for their Spanish nationality on the Island

Between December 27, 2008 and December 27, 2011, 200,000 nationality applications were submitted to the Spanish Consulate in Havana under the Historical Memory Law. Even today, 60,000 Cubans are waiting for their request to be resolved.

This is how the newspaper explained itSpain Exterior, which detailed that 140,000 requests were resolved. He also reported that the failure to resolve the remaining files is due to the lack of some document to be presented.

"We have to go to court because people want their problem resolved. They have already waited almost years without a response," he assuredRadio Marti the director of the Aristeo legal group, Estela Marina Pérez.

On April 2, it was learned that theEmbassy of Spain in Cuba enabled a consultation service on its website to keep Island citizens interested in following the status of their files informed.

The information contains a link that takes the user to the new section of the embassy website, under the title "Information on Nationality Files Law 52/2007", or in other words, Historical Memory Law, also known as the Law of Grandchildren.

To consult the procedure, the interested person must provide a file number and surname.

If you do not know the file number, the person can obtain it by providing the Cuban identity card number, and saying through which of their parents they are requesting nationality.