More than 1,000 Argentines will receive a work visa in Spain

More than a thousand young Argentinian professionals will be able to travel to Spain with a three month job search license thanks to a specific visa designed by a Spanish government pilot program to promote immigration. legal.

The visa is limited to the children and grandchildren of Spanish residents in Argentina, although the intention of the government of the Socialist Pedro Sánchez is to extend it in the future.

"Thanks to this pilot program, a quota of visas is allowed for the group of children and grandchildren of Spanish descent.More than 1000 citizens of Argentina can come to Spain with a visa that becomes an authorization when they have a contract, "said Consuelo Rumí, State Secretary for Migration.

The best employability profiles and the needs of Spanish companies were taken into account in the selection ".

For the program, 3,064 applications were submitted, but a third, 1,084 candidates were selected, they meet the required criteria and exceed the minimum score established, according to a statement from the Spanish government.

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The applicant's profile is that of young professionals aged between 25 and 30, with medium to high qualifications, in specific sectors of technology, information technology, research, marketing and finance.

This type of visa offers its holders the advantage of traveling to Spain to obtain a job without any restrictions. Once in Spain, the Argentines, like the rest of the Latin-Americans, can treat the Spanish nationality after one year of legal residence.

To ensure the success of the program, the Secretary of State for Migration has developed a procedure with very short management deadlines.

The Spanish public employment service provides visa holders with the necessary resources to find a job, which can begin the process before they even travel to Spain.

The selected persons will obtain a three-month visa allowing them to reside legally in Spain while they find work. If this is the case, once the contract is signed, they will obtain a residence permit and a renewable work permit, the employer being responsible for requesting this authorization electronically.

The Spanish authorities have chosen Argentina to launch this program because it is the country with the largest Spanish community abroad and which also has a large number of Spanish descendants.

The project began on April 1 and will end in early 2020, when the final badessment of the number of workers who have been employed will have been completed.