Duque gave the first Temporary Protection Permit card to a Venezuelan

Óscar Enrique Soto is one of the 1,233,366 people who are registered in the Unique Registry of Venezuelan Migrants (RUMV). The Temporary Protection Permit will allow you to stay in Colombia under conditions of special immigration regularity for 10 years.

The Venezuelan Óscar Enrique Soto received from Iván Duque the first card of Temporary Protection Permit, being accredited as beneficiary of the Temporary Statute for the Protection of Migrants. The Head of State gave the permission to the Venezuelan citizen in an act that took place in the village of Márquez, in the jurisdiction of the municipality of La Calera (Cundinamarca).

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Soto is one of the 1,233,366 people who are registered in the Unique Registry of Venezuelan Migrants (RUMV), and the document will allow him to stay in Colombia under conditions of special immigration regularity for 10 years.

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At 49 years old, this man is a native of Acarigua and arrived in Colombia through Arauca in 2017, crossing by canoe from the neighboring country. Looking for better living conditions, he arrived in Yopal, where he began a job making trailers. Then he traveled to Bogotá and while there he met La Calera, so he decided to stay and live in the area, as it reminds him of his childhood. Soto is a metallurgical engineer from the Simón Rodríguez University and the father of a girl who is still in Venezuela.

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The Temporary Statute for the Protection of Migrants was established in March of this year to regularize the situation of 1.7 million Venezuelan citizens, given the increase in people who have arrived from the neighboring country in recent years. This instrument will benefit all Venezuelan migrants with a permanent vocation who were in Colombia as of January 2021, and will be valid for 10 years, leading the bearers to acquire resident status.

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However, and despite the statute being an important step in the management of the migrant population, Laura Cristina Dib Ayesta, director of the Legal Clinic for Migrants at the Universidad de los Andes, told this newspaper that “there is a void , and it is that a bottleneck will continue to be generated, since Venezuelans who continue to enter Colombia, after January 31 of this year, do not have any other mechanism for migratory regularization enabled. The country needs a regulatory framework that can respond comprehensively to human mobility ”.

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And it is that of the 1.7 million Venezuelans in the national territory, only 759,584 are regularized. This is a key fact, since access to health, housing and work, as well as other socioeconomic rights, strictly depend on regularization. This, taking into account that more than 5 million Venezuelans have left their country due to the crisis in it, and 30% are based in Colombia, according to Migración Colombia.

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