If your grandfather was born in Spain and you live in Cuba you could come Spain citizen?

Question

My grandfather was born in Spain , he went to Cuba to live , married with my grandmother , the family want to know if the grand-son and grand-daugther could come citizen from Spain

Answer 1

Actually it can happen. I personally know someone in Cuba whose family is originally from Jamaica and the grandfather lives in Jamaica (but the father lives in Cuba). This person is working on going to Jamaica to see the grandfather and will apply to live. So it would work the same. However, it would be easier if the grandchildren have family living in Spain that could help to sponsor them. Or, they could marry someone from Spain and become a Spanish citizen that way.

As well, I personally know another individual originally from Cuba who met and married someone from Spain. She moved to Spain and lives there now.

Here's a link about legal and illegal Cuban emigration.

"CUBAN EMIGRATION: WAYS AND MEANS

- Legal emigration: During the last forty years close to 900,000 people migrated legally to different countries. It is estimated that around 130,000 Cubans live in Latin America (in Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile); approximately 37,000 reside in Europe (mostly Spain, Italy and Germany) and more than 1,000 in the rest of the world, for example, Canada and some of the former socialist Eastern European countries such as Russia.".

Answer 2

Probably not without some work.   Your eligibility for Spanish citizenship depends upon your parentage, your current nationality and how long you have lived in Spain. You automatically acquire citizenship if one of your parents is Spanish, you were born in Spain or one of your parents was born in Spain, whatever their nationality.  These links may help.  Best of luck.

Answer 3

This is really a Spanish question, not a Cuban one.

According to the link, the intermediate generation (the grandson's father, or the grandfather's son) would have have been automatically a Spanish citizen, but would have had to choose between Spanish or Cuban nationality at age 18.