Dozens of police officers intervened this Friday morning in the queue of the Municipal Citizen Service Office of Lleida, on rambla Ferran, after a fight. The concentration of people in front of these municipal facilities occurs amidst the full opening of the extraordinary process of migrant regularization, for which this point processes key documentation.
The queue in front of the OMAC of rambla Ferran these days reaches to go around the block. In these offices, the certificates of registration and vulnerability are issued, which are necessary to complete the regularization file. The tension accumulated due to the wait has resulted this morning in an altercation that has forced the mobilization of a large police deployment.
The OMAC processes key documents for the process
The deadline to submit online applications began this Thursday. In-person requests at the immigration offices may be made starting next Monday. Meanwhile, many applicants to the process have already gathered at the municipal services to collect the required prior documentation.
The central Government has enabled the website www.inclusion.gob.es/regularizacion to initiate the procedure and request a prior appointment. The Minister of Migrations, Elma Saiz, has assured that they will respond to all applications submitted in a timely and proper manner until June 30, the date on which the deadline ends.
No strike in immigration at the beginning of next week
The Executive has also agreed with the representatives of the workers of the immigration offices on the cancellation of the strike scheduled for early next week, a scenario that threatened to add more pressure to an already very strained procedure in its first days.
Can avail themselves of regularization people without a criminal record who prove to have remained in the country five consecutive months at the time of the application. That condition has triggered the demand for certificates and has increased the influx at service points such as the one on rambla Ferran.
Investigation on documentary irregularities
In parallel, cases of falsified or manipulated documentation have been detected, as well as massive registrations of migrants in exchange for economic compensation. These practices are under investigation and add vigilance to a process that in Lleida has already had its first visible episode of tension with the fight registered this Friday in the middle of the public street.
The police intervention has restored calm to the area, although the pressure on the office continues. Rambla Ferran remains one of the most sensitive points of the city at the start of a regularization that concentrates hundreds of people waiting to get an appointment and gather the necessary documents within the deadline.