The status words on your Spanish nationality file: what the official texts say and what no page defines

You checked your file and the screen shows words such as “Abierto – En tramitación” or “En calificación”. We found no Ministry page that lists these words or says what each one means, so this guide does not invent a meaning for them. It gives what official texts do say: the exact wording an official body recorded from the screen, the steps the regulation lists, and where a notification that counts would arrive, with the official text under each line. Free. This guide does not assess your file.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Check the official page: sede.mjusticia.gob.es.

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• What the screen is
• The words
• The actions, and who decides
• What to do with a word

1. What the screen is

The Ministry's sede page for checking nationality files says what the screen is for.

The notification is a separate act. The Ministry's leaflet says you can access the nationality notifications through DEHú, and describes the ones you have not opened yet as pending for ten calendar days, after which they count as made.

Where is my file? The official ways to check

2. The words

The only official record we found of the screen's own wording is in two resolutions of the Defensor del Pueblo, the parliamentary ombudsman, from 2021. In the first, the resolution records the file as being in this state:

What the words say as ordinary Spanish. This is a dictionary reading, not an official definition of any stage:

• Abierto: open. Registrado: registered.
• En tramitación: in process. En estudio: under study.
• En calificación: in assessment.
• Pendiente de recepción de informe: waiting for a report to arrive.
• Requerimiento, requerido: a request made to you, asked of you.
• Concedido: granted. Denegado: refused.
• Archivado, desistimiento: closed, withdrawal.

A word that reads like a stage does not prove that the stage has happened, and none of these words gives a date.

3. The actions the order lists, and who decides

The Ministry's order says that, while the file is being examined, the Dirección General carries out a list of actions.

Another item on that list is asking you for any other document, the kind of request a requerimiento can be.

A requerimiento in your file: the three months

The regulation also says who proposes and who decides. The Dirección General drafts a proposal to grant or refuse, to be sent up to the Minister of Justice.

The maximum period is one year from when the application reached the Dirección General.

4. What to do with a word

• If the screen or a message mentions a requerimiento or documents: look in DEHú for the notification. The three months run from the notification of the request, not from what the screen shows.
• If it names a resolution, granted or refused: the resolution reaches you by notification, so open DEHú. A notification not opened within ten days counts as made.
• If it says the file is closed or withdrawn: see a lawyer.
• If it is any other word: count from the day your application entered. The maximum is one year, and the guide on a file silent after a year says what the law says then.

If you do not receive an answer to a request, the Ministry gives the telephone numbers and the Telegram bot in the status guide above.

A file silent after a year

Refused: reposición or the court, and the deadlines

The nationality file, step by step

Explanation written with AI from the official source cited on this page.

CiviqPass is an independent service. Built from the texts linked beside each line; rules and deadlines change, so confirm on the official page.