On January 13, 2025, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and the Directorate General of Police issued a joint instruction reestablishing the validity of expired Venezuelan passports for all immigration procedures in Spain. This measure reverses the restrictive criterion adopted in November 2024, which had once again required a valid Venezuelan passport for most administrative procedures. In practice, this modification generated enormous legal insecurity and left thousands of people in a situation of vulnerability, as they were unable…