The Immigration Office will transfer case files between provinces for 45 days

Forty-five days. That is the deadline the government has set for itself to process applications from one end of the country to the other and prevent the extraordinary regularization process from getting stuck in a drawer. The agreement was published this Thursday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and triggers an unusual procedure: allowing officials at one immigration office to review applications filed in another province.

The legal mechanism that allows this is called “delegation of management.” It enables one agency to assign practical or technical tasks to another without relinquishing authority over the matter. In this case, it is signed by the General Directorate of Migration Management and the General Directorate of the General State Administration in the Territories. In other words: the work is shared, but the authority deciding on each case remains the same.

So what changes in practice? Nothing in terms of the criteria. Nor in the requirements you’re already familiar with. No new offices are being opened either. What changes is where your case ends up. If your application has been stuck for months in a province with an overwhelming caseload, it may now be assigned to a team in another region with more flexibility. The public employees involved will be able to process applications regardless of where they were filed, and that is precisely what the plan aims to achieve: ensuring that no paperwork is delayed due to its location.

That said, this support is voluntary. Those who sign up will do so outside their regular duties and will receive a productivity bonus. The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration will transfer the necessary funds, subject to authorization from the Treasury, to pay these bonuses. A joint monitoring committee has been established to oversee the pace and settlement of these funds.

And keep an eye on the timeline: the deadline is fixed. Once those 45 days have elapsed, the program and its oversight body will be deactivated simultaneously, with no automatic extension. If you have an application related to this process, make sure your contact information is up to date on the online portal, because the notification may come from a different office than the one that originally handled your case. And if they request additional documentation, respond by the deadline: the division of labor among provinces does not mean the deadlines imposed on you will be extended. So don’t procrastinate.

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