MIAMI, United States. — The announcement by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, of the program of humanitarian parole for Cubans The number of citizens of the Island in the passport and paperwork offices of the capital has skyrocketed.
An independent newspaper report 14ymedio points out that “the queue to enter the procedures office of the Ministry of the Interior in Central Havana extends to the entire block”, a symptom of the urgency of people to obtain the document.
The alternative media assured that in the place it is already common for people to fall to “pushes, shouts and all kinds of tricks to expedite the processing of the document.”
“This Tuesday, dozens of Cubans protested in the vicinity of the Directorate of Identity, Immigration and Foreigners because the facility —one of the most central in the capital— still does not have the application to accept electronic stamps, essential to obtain that or any another document,” says 14ymedio.
The operation of the passport processing and paperwork centers is far from optimal, according to their own workers. People must first take turns to do the paperwork 15 or 20 days later. There is also no precision with the collection times due to the high volume of passports that are requested.
“The people who are here are the ones who came last year to ask for a turn (…). The normal term for them to call you is twenty or thirty days. That gives you the measure of how many people are leaving the country,” he told 14ymedio one of the women who handed in her card in December.
Something similar occurs at the Post Office, where hundreds of Cubans meet daily to buy the necessary stamps for their procedures.
The independent media itself indicated that this Tuesday “very few were able to reach the sales window” of the Carlos III Post Office, located in the portals of the Grand Lodge of Cuba building.
The entry into force of the so-called “Grandchildren’s Law”, the trips of Cubans to Nicaragua and other destinations and the recent announcement of the humanitarian parole by the US government have overwhelmed the processing capacity of the processing offices , a fact that has been admitted by officials of the island’s own regime.
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