The most numerous number of foreigners in the country are Haitians. But statistics indicate that the first place in securing legal residencies last year went to Venezuelans.
According to the Migration Agency, in 2018, the country granted 16,709 residencies of which 2,675 went to Venezuelan nationals. In second place were Haitians with 1,922, followed by United States nationals with 1,672 and surprise, Chinese nationals, with 1,485.
According to the National Immigrant Survey (ENI 2017), some 87.2% of the 570,933 foreigners in the country are from Haiti, and up to 2016 they were in first position in the national list of issued residencies, with 2,790 issued whereas Venezuelans were in second place with 749.
According to the Center for the Observation of Migration of Social Development in the Caribbean (OBIMCA) by 2017, the number of Venezuelan residencies issued increased to 1,748 and for Haitians it decreased to 964.
Residencies to all foreigners over the last five years have increased from 4,704 in 2013, to 14,485 in 2017. Those countries whose numbers of residencies have increased include Spain, United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Italy.
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Diario Libre
15 January 2019
