Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez announced that Colombian authorities have already delivered more than 700,000 cards with the Temporary Status for the Protection of Venezuelans. The vice-president explained that the measure aims to regularize migrants.
“The Colombian Protection Statute is a benchmark that they are looking at because today the reality of migration forces all nations of the world to receive migrants,” Ramírez said, according to Agencia EFE. The chancellor's statements were made at a meeting with international correspondents, where she was asked how the resources to attend to Venezuelans would be affected by the war in Ukraine.
In this regard, the vice-president criticized the reduction in economic support she has received from the international community in the face of new migrations in Europe due to the situation in Ukraine. “In any case, we will insist until the last day of the Government on leaving the donor table organized in the next period, because we need solidarity,” said Ramírez.
The agency also commented that Colombia has received about two million Venezuelans due to the political, economic and social crisis facing the country. In this way, Marta Lucía Ramírez explained the responsibility that countries have to receive migrants, “adopt them and make them live in decent conditions, that they really have opportunities and that they are not in tents indefinitely for who knows how many years”.
The Temporary Protection Statute card began to be issued on October 13, 2021, with the aim of facilitating access to employment contracts, health services and banking. The vice-president also expressed concern about seeing “how children are given schooling”.
It should be recalled that before this card there was the Special Permit for Permission (PEP), a physical document that presented difficulties in accessing labor and banking matters because it was easy to forge. Faced with this, the foreign minister said that with the Statute Venezuelan migrants who have entered the country before January 2021 legally can access the card more easily by presenting the passport stamp.
“What Colombia has done in the area of migration, many countries have recently asked us to share with them the experience of how the statute was designed (...) Today the issue of migration is going to become one of the most important issues in the entire world,” Ramírez told Agencia EFE.
On March 23, Eduardo Battistini, Juan Guaidó's representative to the Colombian Government, confirmed that all Venezuelan children in Colombia, who were not presented in his country, will be able to receive their birth certificate.
“Thanks to the dictatorship, thousands of children have left the country without being introduced; for this reason, and thanks to the strong relations that exist between the Venezuelan Embassy in Colombia and the Colombian institutions, we were able to recognize the birth certificates made from the Embassy,” said Battistini.
The only requirement to obtain the document is to present the 'live birth' certificate that is given at the time of the child's birth, the same one used to process the birth certificate in Venezuela. The document, which is delivered as of March 23, is valid for registration in the Temporary Protection Statute, for the identification of minors before the Colombian authorities, for registration with educational units and as identification with health institutions.
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