Last month, Remix News reported that under the Sánchez government’s migrant naturalization scheme, as many as 1.3 million migrants could end up as Spanish citizens.

Now, a new report from Spain’s General Commissariat, an office within the National Police, is saying that close to 1,600,000 migrants could apply for regularization, according to a document obtained by Code 10 and cited by Cuatro.

This internal report, which bears the seal of the Ministry of the Interior and the National Police, indicates that approximately 1,250,000 foreign citizens could directly benefit. It also includes the number of migrants arriving from other Schengen Area countries (about 250,000); maritime immigration movements (a maximum of 12,000), and the increase in direct air immigration (about 45,000), Cuatro details.

In total, according to these calculations, 1,557,000 migrants could apply for regularization, far higher than the 500,000 estimate originally announced, and still higher than the 1.3 million estimated by the National Centre for Immigration and Borders (CNIF).

As highlighted by Remix News last month, the Sánchez amnesty program comes as more migrant crimes in Spain come to light, such as the Algerian man under a restraining order slashing the throats of a woman and her 12-year-old child and the Moroccan man who assaulted his partner and her mother, leaving the former brain-dead and the latter in critical condition.

In December, a CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” found that foreigners, who make up 31 percent of Spain’s prison population, commit per capita 500 percent more rapes and 414 percent more murders than Spanish citizens.