The Spanish government under Pedro Sánchez carried out 500,000 regularizations.
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The 500,000 figure is the government's own ESTIMATE/projection of beneficiaries of the extraordinary regularization approved in April 2026, not a verified number of regularizations actually granted.
Actual demand was much higher: the Ministry of Inclusion reported 1,174,978 applications received when the window closed on 30 June 2026 (published 2 July 2026), nearly double the forecast.
Resolutions of applications were scheduled to take up to three months per case, so the final number of regularizations granted was still unknown at the session date (15 September 2026).
The scheme is not an amnesty without conditions: applicants had to prove presence in Spain before 1 January 2026 and a minimum continuous stay, plus a clean criminal record.
The speaker frames the measure as a completed act of 'migratory laxity'; the sources confirm an ongoing administrative process whose real magnitude (applications) is larger than the cited figure.
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