The Panamanian authorities will again require a Stamped Visa in the passport for Venezuelans who want to enter. The decree indicates that the reunification procedures that were in process will be attended to, but they clarify that they will not accept new applications.
The Government of Panama, through a publication in the Official Gazette number 29,606 of August 24, 2022, repealed the humanitarian decree for requests for family reunification of Venezuelans who are in that Central American country.
With this new decree, the Executive Decree issued on October 22, 2018, which ordered the creation of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs for Venezuelan Residents, an instance that had the objective of helping family reunification for humanitarian purposes, is repealed.
Applicants could request reunification with relatives who were within the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity.
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Again, those Venezuelans who wish to enter Panama must apply for a Stamped Visa at the Panamanian consulates.
From that decree, Venezuelans with a visa or who have residence are exempted and it is agreed that the cases that are in process will be attended to.
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The disposition of the Government of Panama regarding the family reunification of Venezuelans occurs while many migrants who leave our country in search of a better quality of life, head to the United States crossing the Darién jungle on foot in that Central American nation.
The president of the Red Cross of Panama, Elías Solís, declared the Wednesday August 17 to VPItv that the migratory flow in July 2022 has not dropped below 1,000 people a day and that just the day before, 1,100 people were received at one of the migrant reception points. He added that most are from Venezuela.
He revealed that there was an increase in the number of migrants between June and July of this year of 9,000 people, since in June 10,000 were counted and in July, 19,000 migrants who crossed the Darién.
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