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Spain — Reacquiring Lost Citizenship
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One document usually answers this, and it is worth getting before anyone starts a procedure, because the possible answers lead to very different places.
Ask the Spanish consulate for the place you live, or the Civil Registry in Spain, for a literal certificate of your entry — a certificación literal de nacimiento. It shows whether you are registered as Spanish, and it carries marginal notes recording any loss, renunciation or recovery, with dates. That single document distinguishes the three situations you could be in.
You may never have lost it. Acquiring the nationality of a Latin American country, Andorra, Portugal, the Philippines or Equatorial Guinea does not cause loss of Spanish nationality of origin, whatever you were told at the time. A great many people in this position are still Spanish.
You may have lost it automatically without being told. Someone born abroad to a Spanish parent who was also born abroad loses it at twenty-one unless they declared within three years of turning eighteen that they wished to keep it. No warning is given and it usually surfaces at a passport renewal decades later.
Or you may have lost it by taking another nationality in the ordinary way, in which case recovery is available — and without needing to live in Spain, if you or your parents emigrated.
Send us what the certificate says and we can place you straight away.