Spanish citizens who are going to live in Asturias will receive aid of up to 6,000 euros

Emigrants who have Spanish citizenship and want to settle in the autonomous community of Asturias will receive help of up to 6,000 euros to cover the costs of return.

The Asturian authorities modified the bases of aid for the return of Asturians residing abroad, relaxing the requirements to access said aid and increasing its amount.

Gimena Llamedo, vice president of the Principality of Asturias, announced that the program's budget was multiplied by five and reached 500,000 euros, which makes it possible to respond to a greater number of requests.

The amount of each aid will range between 2,400 and 6,000 euros, which represents an increase of 30% compared to the current amount.

The minimum aid will be 2,400 euros, which will be increased by 50% if a married couple or people with a similar relationship who are entitled to aid individually live in the same family unit; and 25% if the return occurs to a council at risk of depopulation.

The new regulation also seeks to reach more Asturians residing abroad, and to this end, several of the requirements required to be a beneficiary were relaxed.

Only four years of residence abroad and four years of possession of Spanish nationality will be required (previously there were 10).

In addition, aid is extended to descendants in the second degree of consanguinity (grandchildren). Finally, the income limits are expanded to be able to access aid.

"These new bases respond to a new reality of emigration. The previous ones were focused on profiles of emigrants in situations of special vulnerability and these, without abandoning those who need it most, on new profiles of emigration, such as young people and those who have emigrated to Europe," stressed Gimena Llamedo, quoted bySpain Exterior.

The official pointed out that extending the decision to extend aid to the grandchildren of emigrants was taken "in line with the central government's commitment through the Democratic Memory Law to favor access to nationality for descendants of emigrants."

This means that this program includes nationalized Cubans, who are the most benefited by what is known asgrandchildren law, which the Spanish government has just extended until the end of 2025 to give more time to descendants of exiles to obtain nationality.

"The aid will reach more people and with a greater amount. It will reach more people because it will reach the grandchildren and because 10 years of residence abroad will not be required, but four. And it will also reach people with income higher than the that established the previous bases," he said.

The new bases for return aid must come into force next summer. The program is open all year round.

"This effort that we are carrying out from the Government of Asturias to accompany, to open the doors of this land to those people who emigrated, to their descendants. And I would tell them to buy that ticket back home, that we can accompany them in everything that process of starting a life project in our land, a land that is a paradise of opportunities," he stressed.

This month the city council of Lerma, a municipality in the Spanish province ofBurgos, officially welcomed a Cuban family of five members who settled there thanks to a repopulation program in rural areas. The community offers Cubans school, work and housing to start their new life in Spain.

The "Burgos Repuebla, Territorio Smart" project is an initiative of the Provincial Council of Burgos and the Society for the development of the province (SODEBUR), aimed at stopping the depopulation of rural areas in its region, and they have chosen families for insertion in the zone.

TheThe number of Cubans residing in Spain has reached a historical maximum of almost 200,000, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of the Iberian country corresponding to January 1, 2023.

Until that date, 198,639 people born in Cuba were registered, of which 73,548 were residents. The rest had obtained Spanish nationality.

Spain registers160,000 people in Cuba with the right to vote in the elections to the European Parliament, which will be held on June 9.

The Island is the fourth country with the most voters called to participate in the election of 61 Spanish MEPs.

Until last August, theCubans were the ones who had received Spanish nationality the most since the Democratic Memory Law (LMD), known as the Grandchildren Law, was approved 10 months ago.

The Consulate General of Havana was the one that had approved the most nationalities, with nearly 15,000 applications endorsed, a figure well above that of Mexico City, which follows with more than 8,500, reportedEuropa Press.