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Colombia gives nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants legal status and right to work

  • Written by Erika Frydenlund, Research Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University
Colombia gives nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants legal status and right to workVenezuelans 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 Images

Colombia 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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