Overview
- The Ministry of Inclusion published figures on July 17 showing 159,097 people who applied to the extraordinary regularization had been registered in the Social Security nationwide and 23,607 in Catalonia as of June 30.
- Registrations in Catalonia are heavily concentrated in Barcelona, which accounts for 15,958 of the regional total, while Girona has 2,711, Tarragona 2,535 and Lleida 2,403.
- Those affiliations represent 13.54% of the 1,174,798 applications submitted across Spain and just over 9% of the roughly 257,000 applications filed from Catalonia.
- The admission-to-processing notice says the Social Security number would be sent by letter 'in a few days,' but many families report waiting weeks and have been unable to sign employment contracts because they lack the number.
- The regularization has already let thousands enter formal work immediately, and continued delays in mailing Social Security numbers could slow wider labor-market integration and put pressure on regional offices to speed delivery.