it and what i wouldn't be able to do it was always happens is they take your passport from you you can't leave the country and you don't know how long the process takes you don't know what pandora's box it will open so it was for those reasons i decided to take the time and seek political asylum spain's interior ministry turned down our request for an interview but official figures for twenty seventeen have shown the vast majority of asylum applications made by venezuelans in spain were rejected or simply not processed due to a large backlog of applicants over twelve thousand venezuelans have sought asylum so far this year here in spain for various cultural linguistic historical and family reasons spain is the number one destination for venezuelans fleeing their country. of the united nations refugee agency explained the reality of the asylum application process in spain is the cases of people waiting one or two years and