On December 31, 2021, level 3 was ratified in the US travel alerts, while Venezuela left the number 1 position in the local migratory flow.
Through the land border of Rumichaca, Desiré Mendoza arrived in Ecuador in 2019, a Venezuelan who confesses to having declared in Migration that she was coming for tourism. He says that his intention was to work here for a few days to collect some money and continue his journey to Peru, where some of his relatives reside. That year, 76,872 of the 509,284 citizens of Venezuela entered through that migratory point, which leads the statistics in the flow recorded by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Government. Only 18,818 of them recorded that they had or would establish their residence here.
Venezuela was the country where the most foreigners arrived in 2019, followed by the United States, which in 2020 and 2021 became the country that brought in the most citizens for tourism, residence, business or studies, despite the fact that since 2020 the latter country has warned its originating from risks from the COVID-19 pandemic and from the travel restrictions that were in force for part of that year.
Until November 2021, a total of 226,685 Americans arrived in Ecuador, while in all of 2020 there were 140,884 people from the United States. In the last two years, they are the first in the list of foreign visitors and tourists: 110,739 declared to the immigration authorities that their journey had that objective.
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It is the difference with Venezuela that although its citizens declare other reasons, they have come to Ecuador with the interest of establishing themselves in one of its regions. Desiré Mendoza stayed in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas where he works as a market assistant and affirms that some of his compatriots decided to return due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that immigration regulations have also stopped those who seek to leave Venezuela. Last year, Venezuelans fell to eighth place in the migratory flow records.
The ten countries where the most citizens arrived in Ecuador in 2021 (* As of November)
- United States 226,685
- Spain 61,484
- Colombia 47.504
- Peru 24,871
- Mexico 11,539
- Italy 9,688
- Panama 9,461
- Venezuela 9.318
- France 8,521
- Germany 8,490
Ecuador, in level 3 of travel alert for the United States
The number of travelers from the United States to Ecuador in 2021 increased compared to 2020, when 14,884 Americans arrived, despite the fact that since June of last year the Travel Notice of the State Department for Ecuador remains at level 3 (reconsider travel) due to the high number of COVID-19 infections.
On December 31, it was alerted that since December 14, when the first case of the omicron variant was detected in Ecuador, the number of infections is increasing, so it is recommended that US citizens reconsider a trip to this nation, and in particular the realization of cruises. Recommendations appear in the United States Travel Advisory that guides its citizens who travel abroad.
In June 2021, the United States Department of State also recommended caution regarding travel by its citizens to Ecuador due to crime.
Travel Advisory of the United States took the country from level 4 to 3.
He then recommended not traveling to Carchi, Sucumbíos and the northern part of the Esmeraldas provinces, including the city of Esmeraldas, arguing that transnational criminal groups operate in the border area with Colombia and have caused deaths and violence.
Last June’s warning alleged that the US government has limited capacity to provide emergency services to US citizens in the Colombian border area.
In 2020, the recommendation of the United States to its citizens was not to travel to Ecuador. In that year, the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 was registered in the Andean country.
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