Any person who has a LEGAL and continuous LEGAL RESIDENCE in Spain for more than one year can apply for it:
♦️DIEZ YEARS in most cases.
♦️CINCO YEARS: for those who have obtained refugee status.
♦️DOS YEARS: for nationals of Latin American countries (such as Venezuela), Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal or persons of Sephardic origin.
♦️UN YEAR:
-For those who were BORN in Spanish territory.
-For the one who has been legally subject to guardianship (under the supervision of a guardian).
-For those who, at the time of application, have been MARRIED to a Spaniard for one year.
-The widow or widower of a Spaniard, if at the time of the death of the spouse they were not separated, de facto or judicially.
-BORN OUTSIDE Spain of father or mother (also born outside Spain), grandfather or grandmother, provided that all of them were originally Spanish.
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