Spain Passports 2025: Moroccans Dominate Naturalization Records

Data shared this Thursday by El Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE show a progression of 18.7% year-over-year. The country validated exactly 299,732 applications, establishing the absolute peak of the statistical series that began in 2013. Citizens originating from Morocco occupy the top of this ranking with 42,114 passports obtained, surpassing Colombian and Venezuelan contingents. Examination of profiles reveals that women constitute the majority of new Spanish citizens (55.4%). Furthermore, the age group encompassing thirty-year-olds proves the most substantial, slightly ahead of people aged 40 to 49.

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The residency route remains the privileged procedure. It allowed 253,836 applicants to obtain favorable outcomes, a process conditioned on ten years of uninterrupted legal presence. Acquisition by option, linked to filiation, represents 45,715 decisions and concerns nearly 89% of those under 20 years old. While Morocco leads the dance according to country of origin, the picture differs concerning place of birth. Colombia then takes the lead for those born abroad, while nearly 53,000 of these new Spaniards had already been born on Iberian territory.