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In April 2025, the Spanish police initiated an investigation and would not contain any drugs or weapons, but would reveal one of the most widespread abuses in the Spanish civil partnership system in recent years. His name? Operación Carmín. His goal? Fake love for legal papers. What the investigators have discovered will send shock waves through the country's current immigration and residence system. This will lead to a regional rewriting about how Spain is currently dealing with “Pareja de Hecho” and forcing real couples through a labyrinth of new requirements.

What is Operación Carmín?

In the core, Operación Carmín Was a stab. The Spanish police pursued an extensive criminal network in Valencia, Catalonia and Andalusia, which were blocked in the forging of civil partnerships with immigrants without papers with Spanish citizens who would like to win legal residence residence.

The fraud was methodological and comprised fake emphatic (Residency documents), fake collaboration files and payments that were exchanged for “relationships” that never existed. When the police arrived, they had already reported 227 civil partnerships for review. The result? 212 were fraudulent, a 93% Case in relationships with invented, fake and fake documents for long-term EU residency cards.

Who was involved?

The police arrested 26 people, including five alleged managers of the network, who reported, like a matchmaking agency, legal. Her “customers” came not documented migrants from Latin America and North Africa, who were looking for a quick path to the legal status.

According to the police report, the network made tens of thousands of euros through fake -made relationships, optimized applications and notary statements that have abused a system that was created for long -term partnerships in Spain, which was simple and simple.

Real reform and real delays

Operación Carmín was quickly implemented. In the months after RAID, many autonomous communities, including Catalonia, Madrid and Murcia, tightened their laws on civil partnership. What was a relatively simple procedure that only required Empadronamiento Personal interviews, curved statements, 12-24 Evidence of living together and additional review of relationship authenticity.

This means that real couples who have been together for years but are not married suddenly face a bureaucratic labyrinth. For many non-EU partners, the waiting for the residence went longer and went from 3 to over 9 months. The process has become so confused that they turn to marriage as an alternative to avoid this labyrinth of a loop.

A system that fights for the return of

At first glance, the operation seems to be a necessary cleanup, and it is in many ways. However, unpleasant questions arise from this attack. How did a large -scale operation remain unnoticed for so long? Why were there no basic checks to prevent this gap? Especially how we reconcile border integrity with real partnerships?

The Pareja de Hecho system should make life easier, it was an alternative to the marriage-a-year recognition of a modern relationship. After this scandal, it has become less flexible, more suspicious and increasingly complex.

A legal system was open to exploitation and the danger has been over -corrected. When trying to stop the fake couples, it made real couples more difficult for the state. The question is no longer how to prevent fraud, but how to build a system that can distinguish between a fake and a real relationship.