Spanish Citizenship: AABI Awaits Royal Decree
Protest at the IB monument in Madrid, June 15, 2013. Photo AABI.
The Friends of the International Brigades (AABI) has expressed concern about the inexplicable delay affecting article 33 of the 2022 Law of Democratic Memory, which allows descendants of International Brigade volunteers to apply for Spanish Citizenship. The 166 applications AABI has helped prepare to date are in bureaucratic limbo as long as the Boletín Oficial del Estado has not yet published the Royal Decree that would activate article 33. For the time being, therefore, AABI will suspend processing applications.
