More than a hundred affected people and twenty NGOs have filed a joint complaint with the Ombudsman to denounce the situation. The lack of appointments, they warn, “denies migrants access to basic rights” and leads Spain to “fail to comply with European legislation’ Never before have there been so many asylum seekers in Spain, but at the same time, it is increasingly complicated to start a procedure that requires a mandatory prior appointment.
Despite access difficulties, Spain broke the record in 2023 with 163,218 registered applications.