The decision
How the matter was handled
Three members of one Syrian family were living in Spain on non-lucrative temporary residence permits. In October 2025 they applied to renew all three. In January 2026 the Madrid Immigration Office refused them. All three.
An administrative appeal (recurso de reposición) was filed. In June 2026 the authority dismissed it and confirmed its own refusal. That is the point at which a file is usually written off: the administrative route is exhausted and all that remains is the Administrative Court, with its cost and its timescales.
The file did not close there. On 1 September 2026 the Government Delegation in Madrid revoked its own decisions, finding that they were not in accordance with the law, rewound the procedure under articles 47, 48 and 109 of Law 39/2015 and granted all three permits. Sixty-nine days after that second refusal.
The date that matters most is not the grant, but the effective date: 3 October 2025 — the day the previous permit expired. Eleven months of procedure, two refusals and not a single day of gap. The three permits run until October 2027 and bring the administrative route to an end.
Every case is unique: it depends on its facts, its evidence and the authority deciding it. The outcome of one matter does not anticipate the outcome of any other, and the timescales given here are the ones that particular file took: they are set by the authorities, not by us.