The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and the Ministry of the Interior will approve in the coming days an order that will establish the commitment to bring to Spain – through employment – some 2,000 refugees in the next three years, as progress is made. government sources to La Vanguardia. This quota, which is part of a pilot project for regular, orderly and safe migration through complementary routes of labor mobility, is in addition to the commitment renewed today in the Council of Ministers to welcome up to 1,200 through the National Resettlement Program.
The pilot program premiered on December 12 with the arrival in Spain of 68 Nicaraguan people, members of 23 family units, with international protection needs in Costa Rica. “The Government has opened a pioneering way to welcome refugees thanks to Spanish solidarity,” commented the Minister of Inclusion, Elma Saiz during the arrival.
The refugees, who will receive a job opportunity in deficient sectors in rural areas of Castilla y León thanks to the collaboration of the Provincial Council of Valladolid, were selected in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and with the International Organization of Migrations (IOM), which was in charge, in addition to his transfer.
The order that the department headed by Saiz will approve jointly with the ministry led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska will establish the commitment of the quota for the next three years to resettle people who have a job offer made by a Spanish company.
This quota will be complementary to the one agreed today in the Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, within the framework of the National Refugee Resettlement Program for 2024. Once again, Spain makes the commitment to host up to 1,200 refugees whose profiles “will be determined according to their capacity for integration into Spanish society, and the characteristics and suitability of the reception and integration resources available.”
In 2022, a PNR was approved with a maximum quota of 1,200 people to resettle during 2023, whose compliance is currently 90% with people mainly from Turkey, Lebanon and Costa Rica. According to reports from the Government, the need to resort to this instrument has become more urgent in recent years, due to events such as the crisis in Afghanistan and Ukraine, which adds to the need to provide protection to people from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt. Thanks to it, protection is offered to refugees from countries affected by conflicts and serious humanitarian crises.
