Replacement Immigration Regulation enters force

Real Decreto 1155/2024 replaced the previous immigration regulation from 20 May 2025. It reorganised temporary residence and work permissions, family provisions, study-to-work transitions and exceptional-circumstances routes. It created five arraigo categories and generally reduced the continuous-presence requirement for the social, sociolabour and socio-training variants to two years. Individual route requirements and transitional provisions still control; the regulation did not create a blanket one-year family-reunification rule for every permit.