- Throughout the country, 1,174,978 applications have been registered, of which 609,737 have already been processed.
- Madrid is the second region with the highest number of applications, after Catalonia and followed by the Valencian Community and Andalusia
The extraordinary regularization process launched by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration on April 16 and ended on June 30, has ended with a total of 202,424 applications in the Community of Madrid. It is located, as well as the second region with the highest number of records, behind Catalonia and followed by the Valencian Community and Catalonia.
Throughout the country, 1,174,978 applications have been registered, of which 609,737 have already been processed. Of the total, 79.6% corresponds to authorizations for exceptional circumstances due to extraordinary rooting, while the remaining 20.4% refers to authorizations for applicants for international protection.
Professional support
The involvement of professionals and collaborating entities has been decisive for the high number of applications. According to the data, 58% of the telematic applications were submitted by lawyers, followed by qualified officials (16.8%), administrative managers (8.4%), the interested persons themselves by means of a digital certificate (7.3%), entities of the Registry of Foreigners Collaborators (5.1%) and social graduates (3.6%).
Likewise, the participation of the entities of the Registry of Collaborators of Foreigners has been one of the main novelties in this procedure. A total of 495 entities of the Third Sector and trade union organizations collaborate throughout the process in advisory, accompaniment and orientation work for the applicants.
Of the total number of applications submitted, 83.2% have been processed electronically, a figure similar to other immigration processes, while the remaining 16.8% have been registered in person. In the latter case, nearly 200,000 applications have been registered in the 448 Post, Social Security and Immigration offices throughout the country. The selected offices of Correos will now remain available at the established times for the face-to-face correction of requests, which will last until September 30.
Boosting the country’s productive strength
As for the profile of the applicants, 87% are of working age (between 16 and 64 years), while the distribution by gender places men at 57% and women at 43% of the total number of applications, although in the case of minors and in the range of 45 to 54 years the distribution is parity. By age, the largest group is people between 25 and 34 years of age, representing 31.3% of the total, followed by those between 35 and 44 years of age (21.6%) and between 16 and 24 years of age (17%). Six out of ten applicants (59.4%) are under 34 years of age.
Distribution by origin and destination
Catalonia is the autonomous community with the highest volume of applications (257,602), followed by the Community of Madrid (202,424), the Valencian Community (167,286) and Andalusia (161,557). Next, Castilla-La Mancha, Euskadi, Region of Murcia, Castilla y León, Galicia and the Canary Islands are located, consolidating a significant presence of the process in all the autonomous communities.
By nationality, Colombia has the highest number of applications, with 25.9% of the total, followed by Morocco (13.3%), Venezuela (11.8%), Peru (8.8%) and Honduras (4.9%). Two out of three applicants come from Central and South America, while 22.9% are of African origin and 8.3% from Asia.
160,000 more members thanks to regularization
The affiliation of foreign workers to Social Security shows great dynamism in the first half of 2026 and is configured as one of the main engines of employment growth in Spain. The rate of increase has been accelerating since the end of April, when the process of regularizing foreign persons was launched
This growth has been driven mainly by the strong advance of people from non-EU countries. According to the latest available data (date to June 30), 159,097 more members of Social Security have been registered as a result of the regularization process.
The Ministry of Inclusion has also launched an employability survey to know the training, social, economic and employment situation of the people involved in the regularization procedure. So far, 160,799 forms have been sent and 36,187 valid replies have been received (23%).
84% of the people who are in the process of regularization have full linguistic competence of Spanish and in the case of the autonomous communities with a co-official language, they know the language 40%. As for the formative level, 67% have post-compulsory education: 43% baccalaureate or vocational training and 24% university education.