Amazon supports program to employ Venezuelans in the US

Amazon and the Venezuelan embassy in the United States are developing a program that allows Venezuelans residing in the US to be employed

The giant e-commerce company, Amazon, together with the Venezuelan embassy in the United States, headed by an envoy of the president of the National Assembly elected in 2015, Juan Guaidó, are working on a program that helps employ Venezuelans who are in the North American country.

According to information presented by AFP, the agreement with Amazon was finalized a week ago and allows Venezuelans to register, obtain information on available jobs in the area that interests them and receive a code through which the company identified to give them priority in the selection process.

“In the first 36 hours, 9,706 people visited the job connection site and there were 850 effective registrations on the embassy platform,” said Johan Merchán, the communication director of the diplomatic legation, who also specified that Amazon does not offer a specific number. of squares.

For his part, Carlos Vecchio, Guaidó’s representative before the United States government, shared a statement in which he assures that the US authorities claim to have taken measures to speed up the processing of TPS for Venezuelans.

“His word from him was that we’re going to start seeing changes from now on. So we are going to think that we are going to start to see an increase in the rate of approval of TPS and work permits,“ said Vecchio.

Source: elsumario.com

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