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Title	Spain: Information on a July 1991 government programme whereby refugee claimants were granted temporary residence on the condition that they drop their refugee claims, and the terms of this temporary residence permit (length of permit, whether renewable, rights acquired)
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Spain
Publication Date	1 February 1994
Citation / Document Symbol	ESP16426.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Spain: Information on a July 1991 government programme whereby refugee claimants were granted temporary residence on the condition that they drop their refugee claims, and the terms of this temporary residence permit (length of permit, whether renewable, rights acquired), 1 February 1994, ESP16426.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ab940.html [accessed 30 May 2012]
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Spain: Information on a July 1991 government programme whereby refugee claimants were granted temporary residence on the condition that they drop their refugee claims, and the terms of this temporary residence permit (length of permit, whether renewable, rights acquired)

Information on this specific subject is currently unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa. However, for the latest information available to the DIRB concerning Spain's approach to the issue of asylum seekers, please refer to the attachment from the 1993 World Refugee Survey.

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachment

US Committee for Refugees. 1993. Washington, DC: American Council for Nationalities Service.

Sources Consulted

Consulate Affairs Section, Embassy of Spain, Ottawa.

The Consulate General of Spain, Toronto.

The Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC.

The Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations, New York.

Topics: Residence permits,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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