The PP’s leader’s manifesto refers to strategies to attract international talent and ‘legal immigration’.
The implementation of a programme for ‘qualified legal immigration’ is striking.
According to the sixth measure of the PP’s programme, it would be based on a points system that would reward academic training, language skills and innovative capacity.
It would promote migration based on equal opportunities and merit, with the aim of ‘facilitating the admission’ of foreign talent with ‘high integration potential’ that could benefit the country.
In other words, the PP would implement a programme to facilitate the insertion of the best-prepared legal migrants which would be assessed through a points programme, with the aim of getting them to settle in Spain to contribute to economic growth and pay taxes.
The model is similar to that of the UK and Australia.
The aim of both is to attract skilled migrants on a temporary basis to meet the needs of the country’s labour market.
In these models, applicants are awarded points based on their language skills, their educational background, or if they work in sectors of interest to the country.
These governments issue work visas for those who meet the requirements and score certain points.
In its electoral programme, the PP has included the sectors in which it is interested, such as healthcare.
“We will speed up the validation of foreign qualifications and eliminate the nationality requirement for access to statutory personnel for reasons of general interest,” it states in it manifesto.
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This is good news even if it doesn't apply to those Brits already living and working in Spain. What it does seem to mean, though is that there may not be any more barring of British people working in state employment as has been in my case. I've been a teacher in Spain for many years and I am extremely fed up with the treatment I'm being given by the socialist government and educational authorities in Mallorca who not only illegally banned me from the teacher list back in 2021, but continue discriminating against me in all possible ways once I managed to get my job backn a year later. Not allowing British people to continue to live and work asin the same conditions they did before Brexit is against the law, but it seems to me that the Mallorcan government couldn't care less. Meanwhile my career is jeopardized and I will soon be another person lining up for unemployment. Thank you very much indeed Balearic ministry of education!!!
Lost for words, are we Morgan ?
I love irony ❤.
“We will speed up the validation of foreign qualifications and eliminate the nationality requirement for access to statutory personnel for reasons of general interest,” Which means instead of taking four years they will do it in three, except in Cataluña, the Basque Country and Galicia where the local government will do as they please, especially where the local language is concerned. And those wishing to become self employed will say thanks, but no thanks after they realize the amount of burocracy involved just to get started and then the extortionate monthly social charges and punitive income taxes charged, not to mention VAT.