Hall 2 of the Montjuïc exhibition center will open its doors this Wednesday, May 6, at 10 in the morning to manage the demands arising from the extraordinary regularization of migrant persons. This space will assume the initial processing in order to alleviate the administrative saturation affecting municipal services.
Specific attention for non-registered residents
The Deputy Mayor for Social Rights, Raquel Gil, has confirmed that during the first few days, priority will be given to the delivery of appointments to obtain certificates of registration or vulnerability reports. Starting next week, the service will evolve to directly assist residents in Barcelona who lack registration.
"We have people who live in the city, but who, for example, reside in a room and are not registered" - Raquel Gil, deputy mayor for Social Rights
The operational deployment includes the presence of SAIER and Red Cross workers to guarantee more personalized and effective attention. The measure seeks to progressively decongest the Citizen Service Offices, where waiting lists have grown significantly in recent months.
The queues will decrease.
From Thursday, the service hours will be extended from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. to facilitate user access. This extended schedule responds to the need to absorb a volume of requests that exceeds the usual capacity of municipal registries.
Data reflecting administrative pressure
Official figures show a considerable increase in activity related to these procedures. 17,000 vulnerability reports have been issued since the Spanish Government promoted the regularization process. In addition, social services have sent 20,000 informational links to users, of which 10,000 people have already downloaded the necessary documentation.
"This service should help us to have shorter queues" - Raquel Gil, deputy mayor for Social Rights
The impact on the municipal registry is evident. An increase of 40% in issued residency certificates is observed compared to the previous quarter. In total, 94,000 residency certificates have been generated since the start of these extraordinary procedures.
The opening of the device in Montjuïc represents an urgent attempt to manage a massive flow of citizens seeking to regularize their administrative situation. The effectiveness of this new channel will depend on the ability to transform those 94,000 initial applications into firm resolutions that integrate residents into the city's formal system.