Accem and CEAR have welcomed the reform but have called for the introduction of humanitarian visas. The ELA trade union, for its part, believes that the aim of the reform is to “facilitate cheap labor”.
The Spanish government approved on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers the new regulation of the Immigration Law, which “simplifies procedures, eliminates duplication and provides greater guarantees and legal rigor”, and which plans to regularize 300,000 people per year for the next three year.
This was announced by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saizduring a press conference after the Council of Ministers. Likewise, he explained that improvements in European regulations are being introduced, promoted under the Spanish presidency of the semester. “The regulations will serve to fight mafia, fight fraud and fight violation of rights,” he emphasized.
Regarding the needs of the labor market, Saiz indicated that a specific section has been created within the regulation that covers both short-term and long-term visas, “to make it more understandable.” In this sense, he also added that procedures have been “simplified” and that powers between consulates and immigration agencies have been “demarcated”.
On the other hand, he celebrated that the new regulation reduces bureaucracy. “From now on, all initial permits will be for one year and renewals for four years,” he pointed out.
NGOs Acc and the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (CEAR) They welcomed the reform of the new immigration law regime, but called for the introduction of humanitarian visas.
In this sense, Accem has indicated that it considers the reform “favorable”, “given that the previous scheme dates back to 2011 and the social, demographic and labor realities of the country have changed significantly since then.” “It was necessary to adapt regulations to this reality so that people could safely regularize their administrative situation,” he noted.
Accem has also deemed it “beneficial” to facilitate the integration of people staying for study into the labor market by reducing barriers to obtaining a work permit and extending the duration of work visas.
Along the same lines, CEAR has emphasized the flexibility of foreign people’s roots and access to governance, “which will facilitate their social integration and the exercise of their rights.”
However, he lamented that the reform “punishes” people seeking asylum, “who will not be able to benefit from the roots if they do not abandon their request or if it has not yet been definitively rejected.” The planned transition regime requires these people to stay in an irregular situation for six months to apply for carrots, as long as they meet the rest of the requirements.
For its part, the union IF believes that the aim of the reform is to “facilitate cheap labour”. In a statement, ELA insisted that the new regulations “are not the solution that migrants need, nor what society needs.”
The National Center has acknowledged that the approved change “facilitates some regularization processes, but does not change the rules of the game laid down in the Immigration Law, which stigmatizes migrants and relegates them to second-class citizens.”
Source: EITB
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