The national director of Migrations, Florencia Carignano, said this Sunday that “given the significant increase in the entry of Russian citizens in recent months” “350 with advanced pregnancy” were interviewed, from which it emerged that an “organization offers them in exchange of a large sum a birth tourism package with the Argentine passport”, after which “data” were provided to the federal courts.
“From the permanent analysis carried out by Migration of migratory movements, we detected a significant increase in the entry of Russian citizens in recent months. That is why we decided to investigate and interviewed 350 of them who were in advanced pregnancy,” Carignano said in his twitter account.
And he continued: “In the interviews we discovered that this organization offers them, in exchange for a large sum, a birth tourism package with the Argentine passport as the main reason for the trip. We have already provided the data to federal justice to continue taking care of our passport ” .
He stressed that “Argentina has a history and legislation that embrace migrants who choose to live in the country in search of a better future,” but that “this does not endorse that mafia organizations profit by offering gadgets to obtain our passport to people who do not want to reside in our country”.
“Argentines have achieved, incorporating technology, procedures and work, have one of the safest passports in the world that allows entry without a visa to 173 countries and obtain it for 10 years in the US. This is a privilege that we must take care of and a responsibility with those countries,” said the head of Migrations, an agency under the Ministry of the Interior.
Argentina has a history and legislation that embrace migrants who choose to live in the country in search of a better future. This does not endorse that mafia organizations profit by offering gadgets to obtain our passport to people who do not want to reside in our country. pic.twitter.com/ChubtigA1e
— Florence Carignano (@florcarignanook) February 12, 2023
This Saturday, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) reported that it carried out a series of operations in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Maderoin the framework of a case that investigates a gang that is dedicated to entering the country pregnant Russian women, who obtained apocryphal documents in exchange for money.
The investigation is in charge of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 1 of María Romilda Servini.
The operations were carried out last Thursday in two houses located in luxury towers, where the alleged leaders of the gang resided, who were not arrested but items of interest to the cause were kidnapped.
One of the raids was in an apartment tower located at Juana Manso at 500 and the other at a building at Azucena Villaflor at 500.
On Friday, federal judge Luis Armella authorized the provisional entry into the country of six pregnant Russian women who filed habeas corpus petitions after being delayed at the Ezeiza airport due to problems with their documentation.
The magistrate held that “What Migrations did was correctwhile to enter to settle in the country you have to do the corresponding procedures and not declare income as a tourist “.
Carignano had assured that the inadmissibility of the six pregnant Russian citizens to enter the country responded, in principle, to the usual administrative procedure to resolve suspected cases of lying and being a “false tourist”.
