The government eased entry conditions for Venezuelans in Argentina

The so-called program of badistance to Venezuelan migrants was created through the number 520/2019 of the National Directorate of Migration, published this Thursday in the Official Journal.

"It is appropriate to dictate a measure that encourages flexibility, simplification and possible exemption, after badessing each particular case, from the documentation requirements required by the law and its regulations."explained the government in the recitals of the norm, while expressing its "strong desire to help the Venezuelan people to live an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in history".

According to the report of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on migration trends in the Americas of September 2018, Venezuela saw its number of migrants increase from 700,000 to 2,600,000 between 2015 and 2018, of which 1,800,000 migrated to countries in South America.

In addition, Migrations recalled that the report of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of February 12, 2018 titled "Democratic Institutionality, Rule of Law and Human Rights in Venezuela" "reports on the crisis political, economic, social and humanitarian complex to their nationals ".

He also stressed that the resolution of Organization of American States (OAS) of 5 June 2018 "reiterates that a change of constitutional order took place" in Venezuela and urges his government to take measures to "guarantee the separation and the independence of constitutional and restore the full authority of the National Assembly, the State of law and the guarantees and freedoms of the people and instruct the Permanent Council to identify appropriate measures to badist States Members hosting a growing number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees. "

Similarly, the guidance note on the circulation of Venezuelan citizens of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) March 2018, which urged states to adopt "residence grant agreements, or visa or labor migration mechanisms, that can offer access to legal residency and similar standard treatment to international protection ".

"These last years the income of Venezuelan citizens with the intention of residing in the country has grown exponentially"We need to adopt certain measures that help to find solutions to the various difficulties affecting this population," said the agency under the Ministry of the Interior.

Program of badistance to Venezuelan migrants

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