Under this immigration program, which excludes deportees from the US in the past five years or people who have illegally entered Panama or Mexico, the US government will initially accept 24,000 people, the official said.
To apply for the program, interested Venezuelans must demonstrate that they have a sponsor in the US who can prove they have the financial resources for the period the migrants will reside in the country.
In addition, recipients must pass a “national security and public safety” screening, DHS said in a statement.
The US announcement comes amid an increase in the arrival of Venezuelans on the border with Mexico. More than 150,000 Venezuelans were arrested on the US southern border between October 2021 and August this year, compared to 50,499 in the same period last year.
More than 6.1 million Venezuelans have left their country, according to the organization Refugees International, in what is the world’s second-largest migration crisis, second only to Syria’s.
Source: El heraldo
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