The publication of the new immigration requirements for Venezuelans can take a few days.
Mexico will impose visas on Venezuelans after detecting that a growing number travel to its territory and then try to reach a third country, mainly the United States, according to an agreement that should be published in the coming days.
The Ministry of the Interior (Interior) released this Friday an agreement by which the visa will be imposed after detecting that more than a third of Venezuelans who arrived in Mexico from January to September did so in an “irregular transit to a third country.”
Mexico “has unilaterally determined the application of visas in ordinary passports to nationals of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela who intend to enter the country as visitors,” says the Government’s proposal.
This draft agreement must still be published in the official gazette of the federation (gazette) to enter into force in the next 15 days.
The publication of the new immigration requirements for Venezuelans can take a few days.
Mexico has also recently suspended visa-free agreements with Ecuador and Brazil.
After more than a decade of friction with the Chavista government of Venezuela, in the presidency of the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico has approached Caracas hosting two meetings between the ruling party and the opposition of that South American country.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro also visited Mexico last September for the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), his first trip abroad since the US justice accused him of ties to drug trafficking.
The transit of migrants seeking to reach the United States from Mexico has increased in recent years.
According to official figures, more than 190,000 people without papers have been detected in Mexico between January and September, triple the number in 2020. Some 74,300 have been deported.
In the migrant caravans, mostly from Central Americans, Venezuelans who choose to enter Mexico illegally have been detected due to the obstacles that, they denounce, would be put by immigration authorities.
In social networks and local media there are complaints from Venezuelans who claim they have been detained for up to several days at the Mexico City airport, in addition to accusing immigration officials of alleged extortion.
However, the National Migration Institute reported this week that it has no complaints from Venezuelan citizens.
An estimated six million people have left Venezuela in recent years, plunged into a deep economic and political crisis.
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