Overview
- Applicants seeking vulnerability certificates tried to enter the Gambian embassy in Madrid by climbing the wall, prompting police intervention, increased surveillance, and no reported arrests.
- Separate scuffles broke out in a queue outside a registry site in Murcia, where police reinforcements were called and local officials reported a 70 percent weekly jump to 1,463 vulnerability reports.
- The regularisation, designed to grant one-year work and residency permits, is being processed at more than 400 locations, where long lines and overnight waits have strained staff and services.
- Municipal unions and city officials warned of insufficient staffing and security, with Madrid’s social services citing a jump from about 1,500 to 5,500 daily requests and calling the rollout hasty.
- An error in early training materials for postal clerks left out the need for some criminal record certificates, leading to incomplete filings, while the programme targets roughly 500,000 people and faces pledged court challenges from the PP and Vox as Pedro Sánchez defends it as key to supporting an ageing economy.