To check your Spanish nationality application, open the official case enquiry, copy the exact status wording and check whether a notification is available. Then take the matching next step: keep monitoring, answer a document request or move to the oath after a favourable decision. The information status is not a notification and cannot predict the decision date.
Information and official sources reviewed on 24 September 2026. This guide covers ordinary tracking; it does not interpret appeals, administrative silence or decisions for an individual case.
1. Prepare the case details
Keep the filing receipt nearby. The nationality enquiry asks for:
- NIE;
- case number in its exact format;
- year;
- date of birth.
Do not confuse the initial filing registration number with the case number assigned later. Copy each detail exactly from official documents.
2. Use an official enquiry
Open the Ministry’s direct nationality-by-residence case enquiry. No digital certificate is required. Enter the NIE, case number, year and date of birth, then record the date and exact status text. The main nationality procedure page also collects the application, document-upload and official guidance routes.
As a second route, ¿Cómo va lo mío? shows current applications after Cl@ve identification. If one route does not return the file, first check the number format, year and personal data.
3. Read a status as a snapshot, not a timetable
The official manual shows “Abierto - Registrado”, for example, when a file has been registered correctly. Later text may refer to processing, requests or receipt of reports, assessment or a decision.
The screen only describes the phase recorded at that moment. It gives no individual completion date, and a change —or no change— does not guarantee when the next action will occur. Record the wording literally instead of turning a short label into a legal conclusion.
If a decision appears, open and save the official document when available. Do not manage “granted”, “refused” or “closed” from the label alone: the decision sets out reasons, effects and any review route.
What to do for each type of status
- Registered, processing, awaiting reports or in assessment: save the date and exact wording, monitor DEHú and continue tracking. None of these labels confirms the outcome or a decision date.
- Document request or new notice: open the official document, identify every item requested and take the deadline from that document. Use the document-request response guide to organise the response.
- Granted: download the decision and confirm notification. If it is favourable, continue to the oath or promise and Civil Registry entry.
- Refused or closed: download the decision and review its reasons, effects, notification date and stated review route. Do not calculate a deadline or choose a remedy from the short status label alone.
4. Do not confuse status and notification
The Ministry states that the enquiry information does not constitute notification. Also monitor the notification method selected in the application and the Single Authorised Electronic Address (DEHú).
The official nationality manual says that a pending electronic notification remains available for 10 calendar days before it is treated as completed. This access period is not necessarily the response deadline: take the response deadline from the notified document itself.
Where a representative filed, the notification may go to the recipient configured in the application. Agree in advance who monitors DEHú and stores the acknowledgement.
5. Keep a minimal log
After each check record the date, channel, exact status, whether there is a new notification, documents downloaded and any next deadline. A screenshot is useful for comparison but does not replace a signed PDF, acknowledgement or decision.
If the file is missing or an error appears
Check the NIE, number, year and date of birth exactly as recorded. Try both the Cl@ve service and the dedicated enquiry. A technical error or temporarily missing information does not prove that a file is lost, decided or stalled. Use official support if the issue persists.
Ready when
- You saved the case number and filing receipt.
- You can access an official tracking route.
- You record the exact wording without predicting a decision date.
- You monitor DEHú and the agreed notification channel.
- You download every notice, decision and acknowledgement.
- Deadlines come from the official document, not the status label.
Next step
If a request for documents arrives, open the notification and follow the guide to answering a document request: identify precisely what is requested and calculate the deadline from the legally relevant date.