{"id":2906,"date":"2024-03-05T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:41:38","slug":"puerto-ricans-eligible-for-citizenship-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/03\/05\/puerto-ricans-eligible-for-citizenship-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Ricans eligible for citizenship in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and its residents are citizens of the United States and have a U.S. passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, persons who were born in Puerto Rico, or whose parents were born in Puerto Rico, are eligible for citizenship in Spain. <em>Clarification: Puerto Rican ancestry accelerates the process of obtaining citizenship in Spain &#8211; you still must qualify for emigration to Spain (e.g. work, assets) &#8211; but then need live in Spain for only 2 years (compared to 5 years for everyone else) to qualify for citizenship.<\/em> Puerto Rican heritage does not, by itself, guarantee citizenship &#8211; it just accelerates the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spainguru.es\/2023\/03\/28\/as-a-puerto-rican-can-i-take-advantage-of-the-two-year-residence-rule-to-accelerate-my-spanish-citizenship-application\/\">As a Puerto Rican, can I take advantage of the two-year residence rule to accelerate my Spanish citizenship application? (spainguru.es)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet another group within the U.S. who has unique emigration privileges that are not available to most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persons born in Puerto Rico, or whose parents were born in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, are eligible for accelerated citizenship in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}