Colombia to legalize migrant status of all undocumented Venezuelans
February 9, 2021
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque announced on Monday that authorities will legalize the migration status of an estimated million undocumented Venezuelans.
Duque made the historic announcement after a meeting with the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who called the decision as “an emblematic gesture.”
According to Colombia’s migration agency, more than half of the approximately 1.7 million Venezuelan immigrants in the country are undocumented.
How many of these immigrants are in fact Colombian citizens is uncertain.
More than half of Colombia’s undocumented immigrants fled an unfolding humanitarian crisis in Venezuela that followed the 2013 election of President Nicolas Maduro and a global commodity crisis in 2014.
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