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Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality. Provinces

Spanish nationality grants. By sex and the continent of previous nationality Catalonia
Total Men Women European Union Men Women Rest of Europe Men Women Africa Men Women North America Men Women South and Central America Men Women Asia and Oceania Men Women
2012 25,891 12,074 13,807 221 98 123 258 86 172 6,601 3,864 2,733 231 88 143 17,492 7,334 10,153 1,073 602 476
2011 28,603 13,221 15,364 243 106 137 235 70 165 6,672 3,921 2,748 227 78 149 20,247 8,452 11,781 970 591 378
2010 29,150 12,980 16,145 198 83 115 239 62 177 5,103 2,953 2,145 246 91 155 22,523 9,314 13,190 836 475 360
2009 19,566 8,741 10,801 154 68 85 198 49 149 3,640 2,069 1,569 16 10 6 14,873 6,176 8,678 678 366 310
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
Notes:
El Total inclou l'Associació Europea de Lliure Comerç, els no hi consta i els apàtrides.
Total include not stated and stateless.

Last update: September 14, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Nacionality
Legal bond that joins the person to the State and of which a series of rights and duties are derived.

Methodological aspects

The statistical of grants of the Spanish citizenship provide information regarding the number of foreign nationals who access Spanish citizenship by residence in Spain, in the conditions established in the Civil Code: by possession of state (Art. 18 CC), by adoption (Art. 19 CC), by choice (Art. 20 CC), with a naturalization card (Art. 21 CC) or by residence (Art. 22 CC).

This statistical includes only those cases of acquisition of citizenship by residence in Spain, this being the most common means for foreign nationals.

For the acquisition of the citizenship by residence it is necessary to have lived in Spain in a legal way, continued and immediately former to the request during a period of ten years, five, two or one, according to the cases:

  • Deu anys: general rule.
  • Five years: for the people who have been recognised as a refugee.
  • Two years: for those people originally from Latin America countries, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or of Sephardic origin.
  • One year: for those people who are in the following situations:
    • a) they have been born in Spanish territory;
    • b) they have not exercised appropriately the faculty of opting;
    • c) they have been subject legally to the protection, guardianship or tutelage of a citizen or Spanish institution for two consecutive years, even if they continue in this situation in the moment of the request;
    • d) it's been a year that they are married with Spaniard and are not separate legally or de facto in the moment of the request (it is understood that the spouse who lives with Spanish diplomatic officer or consular agent accredited abroad has legal residence in Spain);
    • e) they are widowers of Spaniard if in the death of spouse there is no legal or de facto separation;
    • f) they have been born out of Spain of father or mother, grandfather or grandmother who originally have been Spaniards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".