The policy will come into effect next May and aims to expand the country’s aging workforce.
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00:00Spain has announced a reform to its migration policy, which will grant residency and work
00:06permits to about 300,000 undocumented migrants each year for the next three years.
00:13The reform will simplify work and residence permit procedures, allowing migrants to register
00:19as self-employed or salaried workers and granting them additional labor rights.
00:25The reform will open doors that were previously closed with three keys, namely training, employment
00:31and family. These three keys will lead us to inclusion, but they will be very demanding
00:38with legal requirements and exquisite with human rights.
00:43The policy will come into effect from May 2025 and is part of the country's efforts
00:48to expand its labor force in the face of an aging population.
00:54Spain needs around 250,000 registered foreign workers a year to maintain its welfare state
01:00and it's one of the European countries that receives the most irregular migrants annually.
01:07Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has often described his government's migration
01:11policies as a strategy to combat the country's low birth rate.