Thousands of descendants of Spanish citizens who are applying for their Spanish citizenship under the Democratic Memory Law (LMD)known as Grandchildren LawThey face delays of several months, with worse times at the Spanish Consulate in Havana. Will there be a solution?
According to information from the site specialized in these procedures, Infocivitanodelays reach up to 30 months at the consulates in Buenos Aires or Caracas.
However, the situation is especially critical in the Consulate of Spain in Havanawhere Spanish citizenship proceedings under the Grandchildren's Law can take more than two years to be resolved.
According to them, the problem lies in the structure of the procedure. Currently, those who apply for the Spanish nationality through the Annex 3 (children of beneficiaries of the Annex 1) must await the resolution of their parent's case before moving forward with their own case.
This system generates a chain effect that prolongs waiting times unnecessarily. What solution do specialists propose?
Experts in consular processing suggest a concrete measure to speed up the processes: to allow simultaneous review of Annexes 1 and 3. With this change, descendants would receive their registration in a more expeditious manner, avoiding additional delays.
Grandchildren's Law and delays at the Spanish Consulate in Havana
In practice, if the files of the Annex 1 and Annex 3 If the grandchildren's law were to be processed in parallel at the Spanish Consulate in Havana and the like, the descendant could receive his or her resolution almost immediately upon presentation of the Annex 7 (consular civil registration).
This would eliminate the need to wait between 9 and 12 additional months once the parent's file has been approved.
Despite the obvious benefits, the simultaneous review of Annexes 1 and 3 has not been officially adopted due to rigid administrative criteria and the lack of digitization in some consulates.
However, tools such as DiciregThe new digital platform, a digital platform for file management, could facilitate this process and improve efficiency in the review of applications.
The delays generate growing frustration among descendants waiting for their nationality. In consulates with high demand, such as Buenos Aires and HavanaIn addition, applicants complain of a lack of organization and excessive waiting times.
In addition, the shortage of personnel and the lack of flexibility in the regulations also aggravate the situation of acquiring a Spanish passport through the Grandchildren's Law at the Spanish Consulate in Havana, Cuba.
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I hope this is the case because it is too much delay for this whole process, our country is one of the countries with the most Spanish Descendants.
Even more worrisome than the delays in the deadlines, is that now the modality is to ignore the applications for credentials, more than 800 people (only for the month of February 2024) are unable to make appointments because they simply skipped their applications and continued with March as if nothing happened, despite making a complaint by mail at the consulate there is no concrete response that they will be generated manually, which means reapplying and running the risk of expiration of the law.
When is the Consulate going to pronounce itself on the jump of almost 600 people from February 2024? One year waiting for the credentials and they have not arrived. How much longer do we have to wait?
When is the Consulate going to pronounce itself on the jump of almost 600 people in February 2024? One year waiting and nothing. They are so disrespectful to the Cubans that they are so disrespectful to them.
It is not only the issue of delay, but also of the requests and complaints that are submitted for general matters, several months of waiting for a response if by any chance they do not give you a solution or whatever you ask for.
I have been waiting a year for my credentials
I arrived the day of shipment, and nothing arrived, they are working very badly, because this system is supposed to work chronologically.
they should match all the files of family members that are made by the same Spaniard in order to advance the processes if the documents to be presented are the same.
they should marry all the files that are families and are getting citizenship for the same Spanish so they would get out faster.
Please, it would be very good, that through this channel, you can offer information for people in Cuba, about delays, more than a year, in receiving credentials for lmd by Annex III, of an older son, of a mother who obtained the Spanish nationality by the Law of Historical Memory. The consulate skipped applications from February 2024. Please thank you.
being from such a developed country, they should not be backward. they have been stuck with Cuba