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Want to flee Chavismo? No passport? Claim to be a Sephardic Jew, get passport from Spain!
Thousands of Venezuelans become Sephardi to be Spanish
Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
translated from Spanish
Daniel Gómez (ALN) .- It seems that in Venezuela there are more Sephardic Jews than in Israel. Why? The miracle was achieved by a law of 2015. And it is that being Sephardic gives access to a Spanish passport under very favorable conditions. In three years, 1,478 Venezuelans achieved nationality in this way, and as ALnavío could know, thousands more are trying their luck. However, as lawyer Alexandre Rangel warns, this option "is not for everyone".
Do you want to escape from the Nicolás Maduro regime with a Spanish passport without you, your parents or your grandparents, having ever set foot in Spain? There is a way to do it. The formula also offers very favorable conditions. But it is only available to very special people: Venezuelans with Sephardic roots.
The Sephardim are the Jews who lived in Spain before 1492, the date on which the Catholic Kings expelled them from the country because they considered them a threat to Christianity. The measure was controversial. So much that the controversy lasted until today.
500 years later the government of Mariano Rajoy put an end to all that. It was redeemed with a law of 2015 that allows expelled Jews to recover Spanish nationality. For this, they must prove Sephardic roots with a genealogical study and demonstrate their vocation for Spain before the Jewish community. Once this is done, they receive their nationality directly. No need to have any other link with the country. Neither property, nor residences, nor grandparents, nor couple, nor anything related.
"It is a big advantage. A person can obtain the passport without even stepping on Spain except to come to the notary to sign. It allows you to have a Spanish passport without having to move to the country, "explains Alexandre Rangel, director of Grupo SIEspaña, a firm specializing in migration matters.
Do you want to escape from the Nicolás Maduro regime with a Spanish passport without you, your parents or your grandparents, having ever set foot in Spain? There is a way to do it. The formula also offers very favorable conditions. But it is only available to very special people: Venezuelans with Sephardic roots.
The Sephardim are the Jews who lived in Spain before 1492, the date on which the Catholic Kings expelled them from the country because they considered them a threat to Christianity. The measure was controversial. So much that the controversy lasted until today.
500 years later the government of Mariano Rajoy put an end to all that. It was redeemed with a law of 2015 that allows expelled Jews to recover Spanish nationality. For this, they must prove Sephardic roots with a genealogical study and demonstrate their vocation for Spain before the Jewish community. Once this is done, they receive their nationality directly. No need to have any other link with the country. Neither property, nor residences, nor grandparents, nor couple, nor anything related.
"It is a big advantage. A person can obtain the passport without even stepping on Spain except to come to the notary to sign. It allows you to have a Spanish passport without having to move to the country, "explains Alexandre Rangel, director of Grupo SIEspaña, a firm specializing in migration matters.
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https://alnavio.com/noticia/15997/actualidad/miles-de-venezolanos-se-convierten-en-sefardies-para-ser-espanoles.html
