Venezuelan migrants in Colombia who have requested asylum could receive a safe-conduct from the country’s Foreign Ministry. This was announced by Ana Karina García, director of the Juntos se Puede Foundation.

García explained that those who would benefit from the measure could be those Venezuelan migrants who requested asylum and are waiting for the document that allows them to work.

The foundation had made the request for the safe-conduct on September 9. García indicated on the 24th of this month that “they received a document from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which they are told that all their functions are established under Decree 1067, which does not deny or prohibit working with a safe-conduct pass.”

However, she clarified that in said document issued by the foreign affairs agency they were told “that through resolution 1980 of the Ministry of Labor is where it is established which are the documents with which foreigners can work.”

The director of the Juntos Foundation, defender of the rights of migrants, added that with the total approval of the document, those seeking protection in Colombia would obtain a guarantee to enter the labor market “while their request for refuge is under study.”

M.Pino

Source: bancaynegocios

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