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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 2012
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 19,783 3,247 1,006 1,855 25,891 115,557 22.4
Men 9,011 1,617 523 923 12,074 50,843 23.7
Women 10,764 1,629 482 932 13,807 64,651 21.4
European Union 141 59 21 22 221 2,149 10.3
Men 65 16 6 11 98 930 10.5
Women 82 24 6 11 123 1,216 10.1
Rest of Europe 153 45 14 23 258 1,029 25.1
Men 53 18 6 9 86 327 26.3
Women 120 30 4 18 172 702 24.5
Africa 4,254 1,419 368 631 6,601 20,352 32.4
Men 2,431 795 252 386 3,864 12,039 32.1
Women 1,773 606 146 208 2,733 8,299 32.9
North America 202 16 2 11 231 981 23.5
Men 77 5 2 4 88 375 23.5
Women 125 11 0 7 143 605 23.6
South and Central America 14,083 1,655 579 1,175 17,492 87,951 19.9
Men 5,851 729 255 499 7,334 35,548 20.6
Women 8,228 926 323 676 10,153 52,361 19.4
Asia and Oceania 964 86 5 24 1,073 3,063 35.0
Men 532 54 2 14 602 1,608 37.4
Women 431 32 3 10 476 1,452 32.8
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social. Observatorio Permanente de la Immigración.
Note: El Total inclou l'Associació Europea de Lliure Comerç, els no hi consta i els apàtrides.

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 "..".