ANDThe residence of the person in Spain is required for ten years legally, continuously and immediately prior to the request.
There are cases in which the required period of residence is reduced; these are:
Five years:
for the granting of Spanish nationality to those people who have obtained the status of
refugee.
Two years:
for nationals of countries
Ibero-Americans, Andorra, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Portugal
or people of
Sephardic origin.
One year:
- Whichever
I was born
do
in Spanish territory.
- The one
did not properly exercise his right to acquire Spanish nationality by option.
- Whoever has been
legally subject to guardianship
(under the supervision of a tutor),
guardianship or foster care
(The foster care that allows the reduction of legal residence to one year is that in which there is a resolution of the public entity that has in each territory entrusted the protection of minors and the foster care that is judicially recognized) of a Spanish citizen or institution for two years consecutive, even if I continue in this situation at the time of application.
- Whoever, at the time of application, carries a
year married to a Spaniard or Spaniard and is not legally or de facto separated.
- He
widower or widow of Spanish or Spanish
, if at the time of the spouse's death they were not separated, in fact or judicially.
- He
born outside of Spain of father or mother,
(also born outside of Spain),
grandfather or grandmother, provided that all of them had originally been Spanish.