"I arrived in Valencia six months ago, and I still have unable to register," says Andrés (fictional name), who currently lives the bureaucratic lock of the municipal register service of inhabitants in the first person.Far from being an exception, its historiadem sample a generalized bureaucratic dynamic that prevents the registration in the register for many people without fixed domicile and who converts the procedure into a business, especially affecting those groups in a situation of greater vulnerability.
"The difficulties that many people face, including migrated people, to register in the municipalities where they reside prevent access to basic rights," they explain from the Valencia Acull platform, which he had presented a week ago, together with twenty -four associations, aComplaints before the Greuges Union, the Ombudsman of the Valencian People, to denounce "the accroblems of access to registration".Ensure that during the Covid-19 Pandemia, "the degree of vulnerability of people who resort to the special employment procedure has been increased and need to urgently need their residence.".
"The problem is the bureaucratization around registration, and that must be eliminated," says Emili Sánchez, Laasociation Jarit coordinator, who works with migrated people in Valencia.Lomismo denounce various organizations such as Reus Refuge, Terrassasense Murs or Vallès Oriental Volem Acollir, in Catalunya.The support of the rental contract, to live in occupation regime in the conditions of infravivienda, in settlements, shades orospacios occupied, make access to the register much more difficult, which must be provided by the local administration, with the objective of having a real record ofThe people who live in municipality.According to the regulations, in no case the Consistory will enter to assess on the number of people already registered in housing or its conditions to allow the employee.
“The register must reflect the address where every neighborhood of the municipality really lives.In the same way that the spicy registration is scholarsly independent of the legal-private controversies on the ownership of the house, it is also of physical, hygienic-sanitary or other censions that affect the domicile ”, establishes the resolution published last May in theBOE, which collects and remembers the technical instructions that municipalities must follow them in the management of the municipal register.Mechanisms that were already in force since 2015, and that they establish that the infravy, and even the total absence of ceiling "can and must appear as valid homes in the register".
Thus, the necessary documents to submit the application should only serve to show that, indeed, a person lives in a specific address.“In the case, the owner's signature must be required in an application of registration.Much less the Scriptures of the floor ”, denounces of the Reus Refuge group.In fact, in cases of special vulnerability, the norm already provides for the forms of corroborating the domicile through a report of the social services or the local police.
"There is a procedure to register without fixed home, in which administration must verify that you live where you say you live, yasea in a settlement, an abandoned factory, a shack or a dance," explains Fani Barás, a social worker in Valencia Acull.Stacomprobation must be done with the sole objective of confirming the usual timing of the person requesting the register and, a holder, could never be translated into other types of interventions."We find situations where the police, also decomprobate the address, then denounce you because these irregular or in an occupied house," says Barás.In this sense, given the lactriminalization of migration and poverty, organizations apply that social services are a “much more prophecy figure to establish a closeness relationship with ESAreality”.
Social services that, according to both Catalan and Valencian organizations, are in a situation of “collapse” due to the lack of nationals and personal, although that overestification should never be an excuse to not register through this procedure.“It seems that none wants to respect the right to register without a fixed address due to a hypothetical effect called.It is an argument that appears aberrant, ”the Terrassasense Mursan platform responded in a statement in a statement.
According to the Gay Costa, legal activist in Fundació Ficat, a legal accompaniment and advice;And in Vallèsoriental Volem Acollir, there are resolutions, instructions and sentences that establish the procedure to follow "without any legal co -control", but in practice there are very few helping that allow it.“People who live in a world municipality are obliged to register in the register.It is not a right that I can exercise if I want.It is an obligation that we have as citizens and the municipalities are preventing it, ”adds Cost.
From the Terrassa City Council, they say they are working to register all people, although they affect that it is necessary to need a rental contract.On the contrary, from Terrassa Sense Mursan they stress: “It is not true that atodos is being registered and all the neighbors migrated in the city of Terrassa.We speak of cases in which they have not been able to accredit with any residence sudomy document, a fact that should not be an impediment to make the register effective ”.In addition, together with other groups, Comola Pah, they ask the Consistory a public rectification for a intervention that was made in TV3, stating that it was necessary to provide the rental contract, statements “that collide frontally with the current regulations”.
Enreus, on May 5, also wondered in the plenary."In our municipality we are not going on the rights of the people who intend to register," responded from the City Council.Hours later, the Reusrefugi collective expressed its discomfort with the following statement: “Sise states that in Reus the rights of people who want to register are not being violated, why do we have testimonies that affirm that their requests have been rejected, for example, by napoderGet the firm of the floor owner where they live? ".
Barcelona is one of the few municipalities that facilitates this type of procedure.Already in 2018, an explanation of the procedure that was followed to register was included, although the address cannot be accredited or not had a fixed address, the following document of the Circuit d'Ecadronament a Barcelona is necessary."In this case, the person makes a request for the employment to make the efforts you consider necessary to check the declared residence," adds the document.In ElCaso de València, just a few months before the start of the state ofarma, a work table had been formed to coordinate atodos the municipal services involved in the register process.Work that was paralyzed by the emergence of COVID-19, although social groups expect to be resume urgently and remember that they are measures that must be effective in all municipalities, as established by current regulations.
The registration business
The groups and organizations remain the right to registration and work with many people agree that, because of the administrative impediments, a faraudulent business has been generated for years, in which money is paid to third parties to be able to."We have reached many cases of people in which they have charged to sign or allow him to register in a unamunicipal," says Barás."They are asked to pay more for Elalquiler or are charged from the beginning to facilitate laddlement, pressing and exploiting people," they add.
It is only necessary to search the best -known portals for rent or housing to meet this parallel reality in the deeperadamiento market."We have known cases of people who are forced to pay up to 400 euros for someone to regulate them," they point out from València Acull.Thus, the need for the register ends up being a business is the object of business, due to the obstacles and lack of information by the officials and administrations.
Famara, who also prefers to use a fictional name, had to pay to be able to register.“I had to pay 250 euros to a boy who made the rental contract to register me.I have bought member ”, narrates.He has lived since 2017 in Catalonia, but only a year he got to register.In some cases, it was a unique payment to obtain the documentation that the City Councilexige.In others, the right to register in a house is even paid, month by month."They came to ask me to pay 50 euros..
The case of Serigne is similar.The obstacles to register in Mataró (Maresme), the municipality in which he has lived since 2018, continues to imply access to the register.“The City Council rejects me the application, asks me documents that I do not have.Since I arrived, I am doing that I need the registration, but they tell me that yes and not.They never answer me in writing, ”he claims.
Regulating as a right door
Beyond the incadronement value of the registration, as a document of entry at the registration of neighbors and neighbors living in a territory, the registration is an essential step for other fundamental rights to be recognized in thectractic, such as access to education, to the health systemor to the current measures to do for the socioeconomic effects of the pandemic, since the great world of these people are in situations of extremely prison.
“Sila Person is not registered in the register, the different administrations or participating in labor or training programs cannot be requested in the register.But, in addition, it does not benefit from the basic rights of the social protection system, such as publicity and education ”, denounces the written letter of Greuges by València Acull.Without regulating, these people cannot access minimum income such as Inclusion Income, which demands to demonstrate Unempadramentation of at least one year.In addition, "being registered in the Padrón is key to obtaining the residence permit by Arraigosocial," adds the document.
AlContrario of what the reality shows, the registration would have to function as “a mechanism of inclusion and coexistence, that is, an instrument to guarantee the rights and duties of the citizens of a municipality, facilitating the fundamental fundamental rights.And in the case of people migrated in residence permit, in order to prove the time of residence in the state and regularize their situation, ”explains the Vallès Eastern Volem Ret.
Terrassa Sense Mursi asks the government that report "clearly" about the procedure that has been desired to register when there is no fixed address, with the aim of avoiding delays and being able to identify the bad -practical.Through a statement, they also demand that the employee must function as an x -ray of existing ones, "to which the economic, political and social system contributes, of which the municipalities form part".This radiography "should serve the institutions and the rulers to prioritize the people with their policies and put their lives in the center once and for all," they conclude, "they conclude.
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