Santo Domingo, RD.
Milaide Nader was the administrator in Venezuela, in the Dominican Republic arranged these things in an outpatient clinic: it was documented and could not be done in a formal way, but a government regulation program could change its situation.
A total of 115,000 Venezuelans live in irregular forms in the Dominican Republic, numbering 11 million inhabitants.
Nader llegó a Santo Domingo hace tres años huyendo de la crisis en su país. Enter as a tourist and stay.
Sin papeles can not open a bank account without access to social security. For the Dominican State, does not exist.
“If we have many gates, we can work on what we want”, dice at AFP Nader, 35 years and natural of Maracaibo (state of Zulia, west of Venezuela). “Por no tener papeles (…) no nos dan la oportunidad”.
“The Mayor of Venezuelans here are both professionals and we want to own what we study”, added to the ambulatory road where rules and colloquial dispositions are made: a sill is located on the side of an avenue of Santo Domingo.
The governing body announces another “normalization plan” that will be convened this week with a documented census and, for example, first, regulate its migration situation with the payment of a multi-unit bill of 115 dollars.
It takes 60 days for the person to leave the country to apply for a work visa before the Ministry of Exteriors, renewable each year, and then an identity document.
The process, which does not stipulate a permanent residence process, costs a total of 300 dollars per person, with a minimum salary of 230.
There is a high altitude for many of these migrants who normally work for the poor.
Dilcia Rojas, 40 years old, works for example as a domestic worker at a minimum wage. Hoy sold jugos in the jalta junto to his hijo of 10 years, hoping to “be able to die and enter without any problem” in the Dominican Republic with this process.
“I’m preoccupied with why I had another child in Venezuela and I had three years without leaving because I could not pay,” uitdrukking.
– “Qualified migration” –
Migration is a sensitive topic in the Dominican Republic, especially the province of Haiti, living with what compares to the island of Spain and with which it maintains a historically difficult relationship.
President Luis Abinader’s governor proposes including a city that divides the frontier of peacekeepers to reduce the illegal passage of Haitians, the main migrant community in the island, which desperately deserves a full house between the locals.
I do not agree with the Venezuelans, said the Director-General of Migration, Enrique García, to ensure that the regularization plan is received with good eyes.
“The Dominican has a concept that Venezuelan migration is a classified migration, that its people come to the country,” he told AFP.
Eleana Vásquez, a 42-year-old graphic designer, is working on the “give stability” process to her family. In her house she works and she marid, which is mechanical. Between both ganan 500 dollars; su hija de 23, también diseñadora, está desempleada y su otro hijo, de 16, está en la escuela.
“Our stadium is in the middle and wide space”, it is hoped that this process will result in a permanent residence, as described by the authorities at the moment.
Nader, who loses the characteristic accent of Maracaibo and has one more appearance on the Dominican, mira the future with enthusiasm. Think about “having the privilege of taking medical care and all those things”.
“Get a better job, open accounts in the banks, have more benefits”, enumerates on his part Evelyn Nieto, a master of 38 years who is also going to live in this land. “I can travel to my country”, I continue, “to see my family who are very special”.