Spain will grant residency and work permits to about 300,000 migrants in the country illegally each year for the next three years.

The government said new rules could give legal status — and work permits — to about 300,000 people a year over the next three years to address gaps in the labor market.

Spain has announced plans to legalize up to 300,000 undocumented migrants per year over the next three years, a move aimed at addressing labor shorta

Spain has massive labor problems and hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants. The Prime Minister has taken the unusual step of combining these issues.

With one of Europe's lowest birth rates, Spain aims to boost its workforce and sustain its welfare state through migration reforms

Spain's new immigration rules will allow for the regularisation of some 300,000 undocumented migrants per year over the next three years as the country seeks to expand its labour force, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters on Tuesday.

SPAIN will grant residency and work permits annually for the next three years to around 300,000 migrants who are in the country illegally. The policy will

Spain says it will grant residency and work permits to around 300,000 undocumented migrants each year for the next three years. In Belgium, Tuesday’s heavy rain and gale force winds turned frosty, forming a layer of snow on the peaks near the Signal de Botrange.

The policy, due to run from May next year until 2027, comes at a time that many European countries are seeking to limit or deter migration.

Spain will grant residency and work permits each year for the next three years to about 300,000 migrants who are in the country illegally.