Spain will grant residency and work permits to about 300,000 migrants in the country illegally each year for the next three years.

The government said new rules could give legal status — and work permits — to about 300,000 people a year over the next three years to address gaps in the labor market.

Spain has announced plans to legalize up to 300,000 undocumented migrants per year over the next three years, a move aimed at addressing labor shorta

Spain has massive labor problems and hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants. The Prime Minister has taken the unusual step of combining these issues.

With one of Europe's lowest birth rates, Spain aims to boost its workforce and sustain its welfare state through migration reforms

Spain's new immigration rules will allow for the regularisation of some 300,000 undocumented migrants per year over the next three years as the country seeks to expand its labour force, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters on Tuesday.

The Spanish government passed a migration reform law on Tuesday to normalize around 300,000 migrants per year until 2027. The left-wing government’s legal reform stands out in contrast to other Western nations’ increasingly hardline stances on immigration.

Spain's left-wing government on Tuesday announced an immigration law reform regularising tens of thousands more migrants per year, in a fresh contrast to harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.

The policy, due to run from May next year until 2027, comes at a time that many European countries are seeking to limit or deter migration.

Spain will grant residency and work permits each year for the next three years to about 300,000 migrants who are in the country illegally.