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Spain — Reacquiring Lost Citizenship
Not eligible
There is nothing to recover, because recovery only works for someone who held Spanish nationality themselves. But that is a redirection rather than a refusal — if a parent or grandparent of yours was Spanish, you may have a claim of your own, and it may be a strong one.
The routes worth checking are different from this one. If a parent was Spanish at the time you were born, you are already Spanish and simply need to register the fact. If a parent was Spanish from birth and born in Spain — both halves — you have a right of option with no residence requirement and, unusually, no age limit at all. If a grandparent was originally Spanish, there is no consular claim, but naturalisation drops to one year of residence in Spain, and there is a twelve-month job-search visa reserved specifically for children and grandchildren of Spaniards by origin.
One thing worth doing first, because it can change everything: establish whether your Spanish relative actually lost their nationality, and when. If they lost it after you were born, you may have been born Spanish and the question becomes registration. If they lost it by acquiring the nationality of a Latin American country, Andorra, Portugal, the Philippines or Equatorial Guinea, Spanish law says that does not cause loss at all — so they may still be Spanish, and so may you.
Our descent questionnaire covers this properly, and it is the one to take next.