Through an official statement, the Spanish Consulate in Havana announced that they will begin to eliminate users of those who received their certificates before January 1, 2024 and have not yet used the system.
The step has been taken with the aim of making the best recruitment process on the Island for Law 20/2022 on Democratic Memory (LMD).
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The post that was shared on social networks indicates that users who registered before the stated date, and have not yet arranged, will have the rest of the month of September to do so. done, as the cleaning will start from October 1.
🇪🇸 To clean up the LMD appointment system, on October 1st, all users who received their credentials before 1/1/24 will be deleted. It will only be possible to arrange an appointment with certificates received before that date this month of September.
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— ConsEspLaHabana (@ConsEspLaHabana) September 5, 2024
It is important to note that although the booking must be made within the next three weeks, the consulate warns that the appointment may be rescheduled for a later date, which depending on the number of requests that the head office staff can handle.
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This process is necessary to manage procedures related to nationality and to present documents, so it is important that you take advantage of the month of September to secure your position, if necessary on.
The Spanish authorities indicated in July that their Consulate in Havana was one of the offices that issued the most passports in 2023. Likewise, they indicated that, between October 2022 and December 2023, that 226,354 applications were received in the consular network, with 110,540 approved files and 69,421 registrations.
In the same report, the Spanish government indicated that the offices of Buenos Aires issued the most passports, with 38,127 documents, and in second place was Havana, with 25,221 of these.
The so-called Law of Democratic Memory, which includes the famous “Virgin Law” in Cuba, includes those children who were previously excluded due to ‘ most of them, and establishing two assumptions for being able to request Spanish nationality.
The first of these cases is for Spanish grandchildren who have not lost Spanish nationality, who can obtain dual nationality by choice through a declaration in which they express their willingness to do so.
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The second is for Spanish descendants who lost their nationality, either because their parents or grandparents lost it when they were exiled during the Civil War or during the Franco dictatorship, or because themselves after acquiring another nationality.
In the latter case, those descendants can obtain Spanish nationality through recovery, as long as they meet the requirements established in the aforementioned Law of Democratic Memory.
