- The initiative is being worked on by Migración Colombia and the Ministry of Labor | Photo: EFE
Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo briefly presented this Wednesday, July 3, a new project that aims to improve the quality of working life of Venezuelan migrants in the country through a circular visa mechanism.
Many people, especially from Venezuela but also from Ecuador, have a circular behavior when they come to work in Colombia,” said the foreign minister.
He explained that these migrants come to the country, work in some activities such as harvesting crops, and then return to Venezuela.
Authorities are working on circular visas
The initiative, which Migración Colombia and the Ministry of Labor are already working on, aims to provide new job opportunities to migrants “because they are people who do not want to be here all the time,” Murillo added in statements to the press during the Fifth Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Colombia is the country that welcomes the most Venezuelan migrants in the world, with an estimated 2,845,706 Venezuelan citizens living in the coffee-growing country.
The foreign minister was in charge of opening the meeting, which this year has, among its central themes, the treatment of the rights of socially excluded people.
He showed that in the last decade Colombia has received 2.8 million Venezuelan migrants.
“We have regarding 600,000 migrant children in the education system and regarding 1.2 million in the health system,” he said.
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Recently, the Colombian government announced an initiative that seeks to legalize, through a decree, the guardians of Venezuelan children and adolescents who are in an irregular situation in the country, and which will later be extended to the entire Latin American population that is not in a legal situation.
This permit seeks to regularize the legal representatives and guardians of more than 270,000 Venezuelan children and adolescents who have the Temporary Protection Permit (PPT).
Access to this new permit provides access to the health and education system for guardians or custodians and children or adolescents under their care.
Although this issue is a state policy, it is Colombian society that must offer a commitment “to guarantee the dignity of the people who have arrived here,” he added.
The minister took the opportunity to remind that in Colombia there are 10 Integrate Centers in alliance with the United Nations and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which are a hub for migrants to receive advice on entering the labor market and receiving social benefits.
With information from EFE
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