People with a valid residence permit for roots

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As of September 30, 2025, there were 376,179 foreign nationals with a valid residence permit granted on the grounds of ties to Spain.

Date of publication: January 14, 2026

Latest data published: September 30, 2025

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The Statistics on Persons with a residence permit for rootedness in force is compiled from files extracted from the Central Register of Foreigners and Social Security Affiliation files, and shows the number of foreigners who on the reference date have a residence permit for rootedness in force. Roots can be a second chance, socio-occupational, social, socio-educational, and family-related. This statistic also provides information about their employment situation.

These data are published quarterly, referring to the last day of each quarter since 2013.

The data from the last quarters may be affected in later publications due to the incorporation of new information.