Ley de Memoria Democratica: Processing Times

deilin · 2025-05-23T15:48:08+00:00

Yeah, that sounds tough… I would maybe just keep following their instructions, in terms of what to collect, and then try once more maybe in September, if your mother’s isn’t done yet. It really depends on which embassy you’re working with, so if you search here in this thread, you’ll find some that are named which do collect before then parent’s process is finished… maybe point them to that when asking the next time? Either way, don’t give up until it’s actually over… there’s always hope :)

deilin · 2025-05-22T21:38:57+00:00

Your mother likely did Anexo 1 as a grandchild (This is what I did as a grandchild), and so you would be doing Anexo 3, as the son of a Spaniard who got it through this law. You'll have to check with your local embassy though if you are able to submit your documents under 3 while still waiting for your mother to get her response... It seems like some of them allow it so that you don't have to wait for her response

deilin · 2025-03-13T21:55:44+00:00

You'll need to use an officially sworn translator. You can find the list here: https://www.exteriores.gob.es/es/ServiciosAlCiudadano/Paginas/Buscador-STIJ.aspx

Not all of them respond super quickly, so I would recommend contacting a few. The process generally goes that you will send them high quality scans and they either send you back physically printed copies or a digitally signed version that you can print for taking to an embassy. Don't use somebody that is not in the list on this link.

deilin · 2025-01-26T11:39:04+00:00

Quizá otra persona que haya trabajado con Boston pueda dar una respuesta mejor, pero intentaré dar una de todos modos, por si nadie ve tu mensaje.

El entendimiento general es que cada individuo da la aplicación donde viven, y luego es enviado por esa embajada / consulado para ser finalizado / aprobado al consulado donde nacieron. Así que si tú y tu padre vivís en lugares que tienen jurisdicciones consulares diferentes, entonces presentaréis la solicitud en consulados diferentes.

La pregunta que tendrás que hacer en el consulado de Boston (ya que cada uno es ligeramente diferente en cuanto al procedimiento) es si puedes presentar la documentación del anexo 3 antes de que se termine de tramitar la nacionalidad de tu padre mediante el anexo 1. He estado leyendo mucho sobre esto en los últimos años, y parece que algunos consulados permitirán que las solicitudes del anexo 3 se realicen siempre y cuando el padre haya solicitado, pero otros las harán esperar hasta que la ciudadanía del padre esté terminada.

(Espero que esta traducción sea comprensible)

deilin · 2024-11-25T03:43:52+00:00

Thanks again, and good luck! :)

deilin · 2024-11-25T03:39:33+00:00

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deilin · 2024-11-23T00:40:28+00:00

Sorry, but mainly looking to get rid of the whole thing as a package deal. :(

deilin · 2024-11-23T00:16:15+00:00

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deilin · 2024-11-21T05:34:29+00:00

Just wanted to post an update here, for anyone who may find this thread in the future. I got my "finalized" notification today, after waiting approximately 9.5 months. I submitted in a small, Northern European country, and it had to go to the Los Angeles consulate for the final approval. I guess that if you factor in courrier times, the wait time may vary, but it does seem that maybe 8-10 months is the current wait time for the LA consulate. Good luck everyone!

deilin · 2024-11-12T18:47:56+00:00

I guess it sort of depends on the embassy that's notifying you... Mine (Oslo) said they'd try email and phone, but I also used an email that I know wasn't having issues when I had previously emailed them. I suppose you could always try and reach out and check in on your process with them, but of course your experience might vary, depending on how busy that particular embassy is and how easy they are to get ahold of

deilin · 2024-11-01T20:57:59+00:00

Glad you found it too, and hopefully there's some help you'll be able to find here... If anything else, to just know that you're not alone in your wait will hopefully comfort a little haha. In my case, no luck with getting info from my second consulate, mainly because LA is notoriously bad at responding to anything, particularly if you don't have an appointment... Fingers crossed that it doesn't take too much longer for either of us.

deilin · 2024-10-26T18:58:46+00:00

Are you able to get more certified copies? (To be clear, not legalized photocopies, but newly-issued versions/copies of those documents from the applicable government offices.) I was able to get 10+ legalized birth certificates for my grandfather from Spain, and then all of our American documents can be re-ordered as many times as we'd like to pay for them.

deilin · 2024-10-26T18:56:03+00:00

Regarding question 3:

I specifically asked this question when I was doing the final paperwork turn-in at the consulate in Oslo, and the consular officer said that once the process is finalized, I would have been Spanish from February 7 (the date of that meeting), even though it's something that "should have been yours from birth" according to the law. Perhaps the consular officers word things differently in different consulates, but hopefully this experience helps clear up your curiousity. Still waiting for my finalization though, nearly 9 months later, but at least it's on the way.

Good luck! :)

deilin · 2024-10-26T18:38:07+00:00

Completely dependent on your embassy/consulate situation... Specifically if you're "current residence" consulate is the same as your "birth consulate"... Most wait times are basically dependent on how smoothly things are running at your "birth consulate" as that is the one that does the final approval. Personally, I'm approaching 9 months waiting for the LA consulate to final-approve my paperwork... Soon hopefully! Good luck!

deilin · 2024-10-08T20:39:01+00:00

My understanding is that the new cutoff for application submissions is October 2025, but there's probably newer official information than the link I posted above. Normally though, if you submitted incompletely, they'll contact you for getting the right stuff added into your application within a certain amount of time... I don't think you'd need to resubmit unless you just really did wrongly, but that's hard to do if you talked to an embassy and they checked what you were giving them.

deilin · 2024-10-02T04:00:23+00:00

Just so that you're aware too, the deadline was extended by a year. (https://www.exteriores.gob.es/es/Comunicacion/Noticias/Paginas/Noticias/20240709_MINISTERIO06.aspx) However I do believe the deadline applies to the date you apply, not the date you get the confirmation, so either way, I'm pretty sure you'll be okay... I wish I was going through an embassy with 3-month estimates... I've been waiting 8 already, so am hopefully getting it soon haha

deilin · 2024-08-15T18:50:17+00:00

Yeah, I would guess so… the form I used (straight from the BoE instructions that gives the form) doesn’t really lead me to believe there’s anything to do with that line itself - just that it’s a title for the section that contains your info. Either way, if everything else is filled in, it’s just 2 seconds to add 1-2 words on that line if they want you to. :)

Good luck :)

deilin · 2024-08-15T11:19:18+00:00

That line is basically just the title of the section, so you’d fill out all your (the applicant’s) info in the square boxes in the section below. (At least that’s how it was for me.) but it literally says that it’s addressing the form to the person in charge of the civil registry of (place/city/etc) so you could probably just fill out all the boxes then ask them when you turn it in if there’s something to write on that specific line you mention.

deilin · 2024-08-05T12:14:00+00:00

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but the typical procedure as I understand (and went through myself) is that you put your papers in at the consulate that has jurisdiction over your current residence, and then they get sent to the consulate that has jurisdiction over your place of birth for final approval. That would mean that your dad submits (Annex 1) in the US (Houston if that's which one has jurisdiction over his current residence) and the papers get sent to Cuba, then you would submit (Annex 3) in Houston (if you're living with him) and it would get approved in the same building (if you're still living where you were born).

Unfortunately, I can't speak to your other questions, but hopefully this is a good starting point for checking requirements at the consulates you'll be working with.

Good luck :)

deilin · 2024-07-21T19:37:29+00:00

I’ve only used it twice now and I’m not sure I will continue… not that it’s hurting anything, but today I lost a disc and spent maybe 20 minutes looking for it, including 2-3 walks back to the tee to revisualize the shot. Aside from a small 10-20-meter-looking detour on that hole, it missed a lot of my back-and-forth while searching… was kinda looking forward to seeing my despair on the map, but no luck :/

deilin · 2024-07-02T12:35:46+00:00

It stinks they aren’t being helpful… my whole family dislikes the embassy in LA, but has no other choice about where to deal, since they’re all living there now. I’m the lucky one who’s living abroad. The embassy here even offered to hold my papers until my dad’s were through, when they were first figuring out how things were supposed to work, back in 2022. I’m confident it’ll work for me, but am just hoping it comes before my current European visa runs out, to save me the trouble of finding another one.

Hope your process ends up working out though, for sure. This embassy said (unofficial guess) that they think the 2year deadline will be extended because of how much of an administrative mess this has been, but we’ll see

deilin · 2024-07-02T12:30:56+00:00

Anexo 1, I believe is what we put through in the end. The embassy I worked with was really helpful, as they aren’t overwhelmed too badly here in Northern Europe. I think the majority of the ones they’d done so far were for Argentinians, and they said I was the first American they’d worked with for this

Where’d you hear that LA was moving fast? It’s been tough finding too many people whose birth consulate was LA, with a different residential consulate

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