A total of 2.45 million descendants of Spaniards have requested nationality under the Democratic Memory Law. As of March 31 of this year, more than 1.2 million files had been initiated, of which 545,000 have been approved and 306,500 registrations have been made in the Consular Civil Registry, the last process to obtain nationality. These are the data provided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, at the Consulate General of Spain in Mexico, which, with 117,226 applications (more than 45,000 already approved), is the fifth country that has received the most nationality requests, after those of Argentina.
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