The PP's Ten Point Immigration Plan for Spain (October 2025) and Where It Stands Now

What the PP presented on 14 October 2025

The party leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, presented the plan in Barcelona. The news site Vozpópuli reported ten measures:

• One ministry in charge of immigration, instead of five.
• Reform of the law on the judiciary, the Aliens Law and the Criminal Code to prosecute crimes in international waters, and a call for the full help of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard.
• More officers at every border post.
• Benefits such as the Minimum Living Income (Ingreso Mínimo Vital) tied to looking for work.
• Work as the way in, through a points-based visa.
• Automatic loss of residence for serious crimes, and entry quotas by country and sector.
• A fast and rigorous asylum system.
• Arraigo, residence through settled ties to Spain, made exceptional again.
• Age checks on young migrants who say they are minors, settled within 72 hours at most.
• Long-term residence tied to contribution, not just time in Spain.

Several of these also appear in a second report, published the next day by the regional newspaper Diario de León.

The central idea: a points-based visa

Mr Feijóo announced the visa at an event in Murcia on 28 September 2025, as The Local reported. He said it would put first the people who want to work in sectors short of staff, who know Spanish culture best and who are best able to integrate.

At the October launch, Diario de León reported, the PP said points would count training, language and integration. People could come with a job contract arranged from their home country, or on a temporary visa to look for work in sectors short of staff.

What the PP added in Badalona in September 2026

At a rally in Badalona on 20 September 2026, Euro Weekly News reported, Mr Feijóo pledged to take Spanish nationality away from naturalised citizens convicted of serious crimes, such as murder, gang membership and repeat sexual assault. Naturalised citizens are people who were not Spanish from birth and became Spanish later. He also wants a work contract to be the normal way in, so that arriving with a job is never harder than arriving irregularly. These were speech promises, not law. The Constitution already says that no one who is Spanish by origin can be stripped of their nationality.

What the law says now

None of the plan is law. The rules in force are in Royal Decree 1155/2024 of 19 November, the regulation under the Aliens Law (Ley Orgánica 4/2000). Royal Decree 316/2026 of 14 April 2026 amended it, with effect from 16 April 2026.

The amendment opened an extraordinary regularisation, called arraigo extraordinario, for adults who were in Spain before 1 January 2026, had stayed for the five months before applying without a break and had no criminal record. It gave a one-year permit to live and work anywhere in Spain. Applications closed on 30 June 2026. It also added a new arraigo requirement: you cannot apply while you hold a stay or residence permit, or while an application for one is being decided. Our guides to Spain’s immigration reform and arraigo in Spain explain the routes.

The general election of 29 November 2026

Royal Decree 806/2026 of 5 October dissolved Parliament and called a general election for 29 November 2026. The campaign runs from 13 to 27 November, and the new Congress and Senate first meet on 23 December.

Provisional figures from the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) put foreign nationals at 7,437,543 of 49,801,559 residents on 1 July 2026, about 14.9 per cent.

When the plan was launched, Diario de León reported that Mr Feijóo planned to put it into action if he became Prime Minister. Even then, Parliament would have to change the laws it named. The Aliens Law and the law on the judiciary are organic laws, a special kind of law set out in the Constitution. Changing one needs an absolute majority of Congress in a final vote on the whole bill. We have not yet seen a PP manifesto for this election.

What this means if you are applying now

Nothing in the plan has changed the rules. If you are applying for a visa or a residence permit today, the rules that count are the ones in force now: Royal Decree 1155/2024 as amended in April 2026. The safest guide is the published rules, with advice about your own case.

Applying for a Spanish visa? For the non-lucrative residence visa, Spanish consulates ask for health insurance from an insurer authorised to operate in Spain, covering all the risks that Spain’s public health system covers. Some, such as the consulates in Los Angeles and Washington, also say the policy must have no co-payments, and Los Angeles adds no deductibles. See our health insurance for a Spanish visa.

Sources: Vozpópuli, 14 October 2025; Diario de León, 15 October 2025; The Local, 29 September 2025; Euro Weekly News, 20 September 2026; Royal Decree 316/2026, Official State Gazette; Royal Decree 806/2026, Official State Gazette; National Statistics Institute, 1 July 2026; Spanish Constitution, articles 11, 81 and 122; Consulate of Spain in London; Consulate of Spain in Los Angeles; Consulate of Spain in Washington.