{"id":511190,"date":"2026-01-20T22:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=511190"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:12:48","slug":"spain-to-recognize-expired-belarusian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/spain-to-recognize-expired-belarusian-passports","title":{"rendered":"Spain to Recognize Expired Belarusian Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Spain will recognize expired Belarusian passports as valid. This is \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043e by an instruction issued by Spain\u2019s State Secretariat for Migration and the General Directorate of Police.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is the result of an agreement between the Office of <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> and the Spanish authorities. In June 2025, Tsikhanouskaya reached the relevant agreement with Spain\u2019s foreign minister. In January 2026, the arrangements were formalized in documents, Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p>The instruction states that Belarusian citizens with expired passports will be able to obtain foreigner identity cards, as well as any permits and residence permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain will recognize expired Belarusian passports as valid. This is \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043e by an instruction issued by Spain\u2019s State Secretariat for Migration and the General Directorate of Police. The decision is the result of an agreement between the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and the Spanish authorities. In June 2025, Tsikhanouskaya reached the relevant agreement with Spain\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/69709894ab2bb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Spain to Recognize Expired Belarusian Passports"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}