One of the first steps of any migrant who has recently arrived in Spain and wants to become legal is To. This is nothing more than an entry in the municipal register of the place where he wants to live. But not everything is so easy and not done quickly, because not all houses or owners allow it. This creates an illegal business: charging fees.
As we have already explained to you, registration is the process that allows you To all residents who live or have their habitual residence in a Spanish municipality. The municipal register is an administrative document that contains the data of these neighbors and that they need for other operations, such as applying for a foreign identity card.
But as with everything difficult, some are drawing economic guarantees from this situation, as the Almería newspaper in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain reported recently this week.
Fees for registration in Spain
On that occasion, the National Police arrested and charged a man who was guilty of illegally registering foreigners on a property he owned between 300 and 700 euros per person.
There were 173 registered people on the 136 square meter property who wanted to settle their situation in Spain. Three other people responsible for the arrest of foreigners, mainly of Moroccan and Senegalese origin, were also arrested in the province of Almería.
But this illegality is more common than you can imagine and occurs in several autonomous communities, for example in the Canary Islands, where hundreds of Cubans arrive every year and we have occasionally heard of complaints and accusations from Spaniards or from new arrivals who have To.
Foreigners pay this money because a registration certificate is required for all further procedures on Spanish soil. However, if they are caught, as in the case described above, they face the revocation of the permits issued and administrative sanctions.