Colombia gives nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants legal status and right to work
- Written by Erika Frydenlund, Research Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
Venezuelans wait at the Colombian border to be processed and housed in tents in 2020. All Venezuelans now in Colombia will receive a 10-year residency permit.Schneyder Mendoza/AFP via Getty ImagesColombia will grant legal status to all Venezuelan migrants who fled there since 2016 to escape their country’s economic collapse and political...
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