No, Spain isn't handing out thousands of euros to newly regularised migrants

Published connected 04/05/2026 - 15:24 GMT+2•Updated 15:29

An representation of a paper beforehand leafage is circulating wide online, claiming that Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez volition springiness the country's recently regularised migrants €2,800 per period per household for 2 years until they find a job.

The nonfiction supposedly belongs to a quality outlet called "El Diario de España", and refers to Madrid's caller measurement to assistance an estimated 500,000 undocumented migrants ineligible presumption by allowing them to use for a renewable one-year residence permit.

This is provided that they tin beryllium that they person lived successful Spain for astatine slightest 5 months.

However, the beforehand leafage and its claims are false. Simply put, the quality outlet, El Diario de España, doesn't adjacent exist, with nary hint of it having a website.

The expected day of work of the nonfiction is 24 May 2024, but that doesn't correspond with the existent timeline: the Spanish authorities lone announced its regularisation program successful January 2026, and it came into unit successful April.

The fake nonfiction features a representation of Sánchez lasting down a lectern, which says "Inclusion and Social Cohesion Plan 2024-2026", but an online hunt yields nary grounds of this inaugural existing either.

The substance of the Royal Decree establishing the regularisation programme does not notation to migrants receiving €2,800 per month.

Madrid has denied that it volition beryllium handing retired specified a sum, reiterating that those benefiting from the measurement volition beryllium capable to reside and enactment successful Spain legally.

They indispensable person a cleanable transgression grounds and person until 30 June to use for a renewable moving visa.

The regularisation program has been the taxable of overmuch contention and misinformation ever since it was archetypal announced.

The Cube has already debunked instances of French politicians claiming that migrants regularised successful Spain will beryllium capable to settee successful France, alongside others falsely alleging that they'll beryllium automatically granted the close to vote.

Officials astatine the European Commission person expressed hesitancy astatine the measure, implicit fears that it could undermine the unfastened borders of the Schengen Area and struggle with the EU's tendency to tighten migration controls.

Nevertheless, Spain's migration minister, Elma Saiz, recently told Euronews successful an interview that it is simply a "model for Europe", which volition let migrants already surviving and moving successful the state to summation the due rights and obligations to the state.