The Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Spain has launched the figures of its consular exercise equivalent to 2023. The Consulate of Havana leads among the procedures.
Within the 2023 Consular Exercise Stability of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, it’s highlighted that in 2023, Spanish consular workplaces confirmed a big enhance in varied areas.
Passport Issuance
For instance, in response to the reporta complete of 388,722 passports had been issued final 12 months, which represented a rise of 6.3% in comparison with 2022.
The distribution of the forms of passports issued was as follows:
- Odd passports: 387,107
- Provisional passports: 1,615
Likewise, the consular workplaces with the very best variety of Spanish passports issued had been:
- Buenos Aires: 38,127
- Havana: 25,221
- Mexico: 22,243
- Caracas: 17.177
- London: 14,439
- Bogota: 13,282
- Paris: 12,425
- Miami: 10.824
Because of this the Spanish Consulate in Havana was the second that issued essentially the most passports.
Visa processing for Spain
Throughout 2023, a complete of 1,609,047 visas had been processed, which represented a rise of 19.6% in comparison with 2022 (1,345,588 visas) and greater than 3 times the determine registered in 2020 (480,049 visas). Of those visas, 85% had been short-term and 6% had been research visas.
Data of Schengen VisaInfo.com factors out that within the South American space (together with the Caribbean), Cubans made 18.4% of all Schengen visa purposes in 2022 (39,931).
Registrations in Consular Civil Registries
Returning to the stability of Consular Exercise, it’s specified that in 2023 156,503 registrations had been made within the Consular Civil Registries, which translated into a rise of 39% in comparison with 2022. That is the variety of registrations in response to their sort:
- Births: 128,179
- Marriages: 21,459
- Deaths: 6,865
As might be anticipated, a lot of the beginning registrations correspond to beneficiaries of Regulation 20/2022, of October 19, on Democratic Reminiscence, who opted for Spanish nationality.
In accordance with official figures, from October 21, 2022 to December 31, 2023, 226,354 purposes had been obtained within the consular community beneath this legislation, of which 110,540 correspond to accredited information and 69,421 to beginning registrations.
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