Spain Issues First Passport

Spain recently, February 5th, 2009, issued its first of 200.000 passports to qualifying Cubans. The passports are given to those who qualify for Spanish citizenship under their historical memory law. This law, which recently created, applies to those decedents who's mother or father were Spanish and the grandchildren who fled.



The sole purpose of this passport process is to compensate for the victims of Spain's 1936-1939 Civil war. Since the law has been passed on December 29th, over 25,000 applications have been submitted.

Many of the applicants do not feel as though this will be the return to a strange land, but to where they've always belonged.