A group of Cubans who want to take advantage of Spain’s new “law for grandchildren” in order to obtain that nationality have called a peaceful protest for this Wednesday, July 5 at 9:30 am in front of the population assistance office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Exteriors, on H street between 5th and Calzada, in El Vedado, Havana.
Their complaint, they explain to this newspaper, is that the process of legalization of documents in the Cuban instance, which used to take a month, now it takes up to four months. “The appointments are for the ticket app and there are 2,000 people or more on the waiting list to obtain an appointment for legalization,” they lament.
As detailed, each stage of the process now takes between 20 days and a month: “pending”, a month; “accepted at reception”, between 20 and 30 days; “legalization”, 20 days; “signed”, 5 days, and “delivered”, between 20 and 30 days.
In order for the process to be shortened, they propose to the ministry two measures: create “temporary offices for the legalization of documents in the capitals of the provinces“, so that “there is less volume of documents in Havana”, and hire more staff. “We just want to have our documentation ready in the fastest time possible and be Spanish; is our right”, they claim in an electronic message sent to the Editorial Office of 14ymedio.
“Appointments are through the Ticket application and there are 2,000 people or more on the waiting list to obtain an appointment for legalization”
The group has also created a telegram channel to disseminate the call, signed by the Ombudsman of the Community of Spanish Descendants.
Cuba is the country where more people have obtained Spanish nationality by virtue of the new Democratic Memory Law, which offers the option of obtaining it to a wide range of Spanish descendants.
Until January 31, according to the latest data made public by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, 24,729 applications had been filed at the 179 consular offices of that country around the world, most of them in Latin America. Cuba, Argentina and Mexico, in this order, had a total of 14,610 applications received and 4,774 registered nationalities.
Of this total, half, 12,862, have already been approved while 6,653 have been registered in the Civil Registry.
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