Nearly a thousand migrants have arrived on Spanish shores since Friday alone
AROUND a thousand would-be migrants have arrived on Spanish shores since Friday alone, most of them reaching the coasts of the Canary Islands. That’s according
Arrival of 400 migrants on Spain’s southern coasts raises alarms for authorities
BOATS carrying around 400 migrants have arrived on the coasts of Spain’s Almeria, Granda and Murcia in just a few days. In many cases, holidaymakers
Good news for temporary residents in Spain: Permits no longer revoked if you leave the country for over six months
A CHANGE in temporary residency rules means that those who spend more than six months outside of Spain will no longer have their permits revoked.
Spain’s Maritime Rescue service pulls 187 migrants from waters off the Canary Islands’ coasts
SPAIN’S Maritime Rescue service last night pulled around 187 migrants out of the waters off the coasts of Canary Islands of Tenerife and El Hierro,
Gun-running, drug-trafficking, people smuggling ring bringing people into Spain via Libya and Algeria busted
A HUGE people trafficking gang that smuggled Syrian and Algerian migrants into Spain on speed boats via Libya has been dismantled in a major international
Amnesty International puts death toll from June 2022 border fence storming at 37 with 76 migrants still unaccounted for
NEARLY A year on from a migrant tragedy at the Spanish border with Morocco at Melilla, Amnesty International has released a new estimate of how
Chief inspector in Spain’s Basque Country offers extra days off for officers who arrest immigrants
A PROBE has been opened in the Basque Country after it emerged that a chief inspector from the National Police offered his officers days off
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez makes first visit to White House
US President Joe Biden warmly welcomed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to the White House on Friday, as part of an official visit to Washington
40% of migrants who lost their lives while traveling to Spain died between 2020 and 2022
The Association for Human Rights in Andalucia has found that 40% of people who lost their lives on their migratory journey to Spain since 2003
People trafficker handed suspended sentence for bringing dinghy with five people to Mallorca on perilous 38-hour journey
A YOUNG Algerian man has been given a two-year suspended sentence for skippering a dinghy that brought five other people to Mallorca illegally. The boat
Criminal gang providing fake residency cards to Nigerian migrants busted by Spain’s National Police
SPAIN’S National Police force has busted a criminal ring that was forging residency cards for migrants in an irregular situation, thus allowing them to work.
Spain’s public prosecutor shelves probe into Melilla migrant tragedy that claimed 23 victims
SPAIN’S public prosecutor has shelved a probe into the migrant tragedy that occurred at the border fence separating the Spanish exclave city of Melilla in
Would-be migrants flee plane at Barcelona airport after fake medical emergency forces landing
TWENTY-EIGHT people fled an aeroplane travelling from Casablanca (Morocco) to Turkey on Wednesday morning, after an apparently faked medical emergency forced the aircraft to make
Police put on alert ahead of Spain-Morocco World Cup clash
SPANISH police are reportedly on alert ahead of possible altercations tomorrow related to the World Cup last-16 match between Spain and Morocco. Disturbances were seen
Migrant reaches Spanish soil from Morocco by flying over border in paraglider
WOULD-BE migrants trying to reach Spanish soil from North Africa will go to desperate measures to get across the borders at the exclave cities of
Opposition party calls on Spain’s interior minister to quit over Melilla migrant tragedy that killed 23
SPAIN’S main opposition Popular Party (PP) has called on Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska (pictured above) to be sacked over the Melilla migrant tragedy in June,
Spain to spend €20m to assist transfer of unaccompanied minors from migration hotspots to peninsula
THE SPANISH government is planning to assign €20 million to the country’s regions to support the voluntary reception of unaccompanied migrant minors. The youngsters will
BBC documentary about Spanish border tragedy prompts fresh calls from political parties for explanations
A DOCUMENTARY from the BBC about the tragic migrant deaths in June this year at the border between Morocco and the Spanish city of Melilla
Police bust Almeria and Alicante gang who falsified documents to help foreigners gain residency in Spain
SPAIN’S Policia Nacional have arrested 23 people involved in a scheme to provide foreign citizens with fake documents in the Spanish towns of Almeria and
More foreigners call Spain home than ever before, latest government stats reveal
THERE are more foreign residents living in Spain than ever before, new data suggests. Some six million foreigners were officially recorded as having residence in
Property owner stung with massive fine for bogus registration of immigrants in Spain’s Valencia
A Valencia area man has picked up a €105,000 penalty for breaking Spain’s immigration laws. The 52-year-old Pakistani national from Mislata was fined €525 each
Spain gives the green light to grant residency and work permits for 15,000 young immigrants
SOME 15,000 asylum seekers will be given a home in Spain thanks to a new change in the country’s immigration laws.  The Council of Ministers
EXCLUSIVE: “Time to get out of Dodge” – meet the Brexit refugees making a new life in Spain (part 2)
Continuing on from our recent feature on Brits that have left their homes in the UK to start new lives in sunnier climes here in
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Brexit refugees who fled Britain for a new life in Spain
BRITISH expats living in Spain watching events unfold in the UK in recent days may be forgiven for feeling a certain Schadenfreude as critics of
Pregnant woman and 8-year-old boy amoung those who lost their lives in tragic Lanzarote shipwreck
At least four people died, including a woman reported to be pregnant and a child, and another four were missing after a migrant boat overturned
REFUGEES WELCOME: Regional government in Spain’s Valencia pledges to house unlimited number of underage migrants landing in Ceuta
THE Valencian government has pledged to house an unlimited number of underage migrants who have arrived in Ceuta (Moroccan border with Spain) this week. A