The Venezuelan diaspora in the Dominican Republic has again asked the Dominican government to extend to them the privileges for status regularization included in the National Foreigner Regularization Plan. The Venezuelans, who are being affected by delays in securing their documentation to regularize their status, are asking the Dominican government to provide special immigration processing relief that would permit Venezuelans to become legal residents in the Dominican Republic without having to return to Venezuela to petition for residency. In short, many Venezuelans are asking for a humanitarian visa exception for their cases, which would be awarded via a one stop shop, as other countries have done.
Supporters of the special immigration treatment for Venezuelans referred to the World Bank statistics that state that there are around 19,800 Venezuelans in the country who lack wellbeing and security and are in a vulnerable situation as they are not in the country legally.
The coordinators of the Venezuelan group have a 14-page proposal that they handed over to the Presidency, the Migration Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Relations with the proposal.
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Listin Diario
17 January 2018
