The situation has led to scenes of prolonged waiting, with people arriving from early morning to try and get a turn. A 24-year-old man, who arrived from Venezuela five months ago, shared his experience with this newspaper, highlighting the difficulty of securing an appointment and the need to sleep on the street. At one point, the crowd was so large that police intervention was necessary to maintain order.
“"One lives with the basics. One is surviving. Suddenly they make you work 12, 10 hours… One doesn't have a day off, it's complicated, it's not easy."
The vulnerability report, issued by the Aculco Foundation, is a resource for those who cannot present the ordinary documents required to initiate regularization procedures. This document is crucial for those lacking an employment contract or economic stability, despite having worked irregularly. The extraordinary administrative regularization, approved by the Council of Ministers last Tuesday, aims to integrate migrants already residing in Spain.
The general director of the Foundation explained that they are streamlining the process with hired staff and volunteers, managing appointments through WhatsApp groups. However, this method has excluded many people who queue without being pre-registered. The regularization measure, for which online applications began on April 16 and in-person applications on April 20, is estimated to affect half a million foreigners in Spain.
“"For the purposes of the regularization process, foreign persons are considered to be in a situation of vulnerability if, due to their irregular administrative status and the personal, economic, social, psychosocial, family or housing circumstances derived therefrom, their living conditions or effective access to their rights are affected."
