Oltre un milione di discendenti di spagnoli hanno chiesto la cittadinanza, travolgendo i consolati

It’s a plague also for Italy and feels very fucked up that those people have better access to an easy citizenship than foreigners working their ass here for many years.

argentine here (with italian citizenship becouse of my grandparents)

since now it’s more hard to get the italian citizenship (now only people whose grandparents were italians can ask for it, before there was basically no limit), probably people will switch and try to get the spanish one

and basically there is an entire continent wich can apply for it, lol, you better change your rules or 1,3 million will be nothing

Since the headline is misleading: this is now a new law, and in fact this deluge is due to the law that was already active being about to end. Other European countries also grant citizenship for having a parent or grandparent from that country, Spain isn’t doing anything new here.

And 99% of them will use it not to come live in Spain but other EU countries instead.

My father is Greek, mom’s Brazilian, a couple of years after me and my brother were born in Brazil, my father registered me and my brother, in Greece, with birth certificates, it says country of birth Brazil. He retired in 2006 and never went back to Greece, we got passaports in 2019 through the Greek consulate in Brazil and it was really easy. When asking, the Consul was adamant we were Greek citizens and could live in Greece with no problems…. In 2023 when my father died, I went to Greece for the first time to sign papers and meet family, I made my ID card and AFM (tax number kind of) with no issues.

It’s all the trouble because people don’t register their kids in their original country when they’re born? So people try to get documents after their parent passed?