1,175,000 people filed an application under Spain's regularization plan after entering or staying illegally in the EU.
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The exact official figure is 1,174,978 applications (Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones), which rounds to the 1,175,000 cited; the difference is negligible (0.002%).
The regularization process concerns people who were present in Spain before 1 January 2026 and had stayed at least five months — it is a Spanish national scheme, so the claim's reference to people who entered or stayed 'illegally on European soil' overstates the geographic scope.
The figure counts applications filed, not regularizations granted: at the close of the deadline the government had three months to process the vast majority of the files, and only a fraction had been resolved.
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