For many Venezuelan citizens who had processed their ID because they were children of Colombian fathers and mothers, the Registry canceled the document alleging alleged “irregularities.” They affected from migrants in informal sales to doctors, businessmen and more.
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Today, thousands of Venezuelan citizens who had obtained their ID as Colombian-Venezuelans are undocumented without being able to continue with their businesses, their employment contracts, or their studies, this after the National Registry canceled those IDs due to alleged irregularities.
According to the entity, this occurred after an evaluation and purification of the electoral census in Colombia.
While the Government of Iván Duque has opted during his mandate for the regularization of 1.7 million Venezuelans in Colombia With the temporary status of protection, which Migration is managing, this massive cancellation of IDs passes.
However, complaints about Colombian-Venezuelan identity cards with irregularities are not new.
The Country of Spain knew stories of migrants today, affected by this decision.
Yessica Godoy, for example, was detained at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá when she was going on a family outing in Spain. She had processed permits and bought her tickets with her Colombian-Venezuelan ID.
On January 24, when he was already at the airport, he was notified that the document had been cancelled.
The same thing happened to Gabriela Arenas, director of the Learning Workshop for Arts and Thought Foundation (TAAP).
Once she was notified of the cancellation of the document, she began to investigate and has known more than 5,000 cases “in which it deals with procedural and administrative errors.”
errors, collect The Country of Spain«committed in the registries, incorrect serial numbers or lack of folio number, issues like that».
Cases have been reported in Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, Pasto, Bucaramanga, Santa Marta, Barranquilla and several other cities.
For 42,690 Colombian-Venezuelan citizens, the Registrar’s Office of that country annulled their Colombian IDs for allegedly having “false identity.” Via @DiarioTalCual https://t.co/NQxfkei5IS
— Access to Justice (@AccesoaJusticia) February 14, 2022
In the purification carried out by the Registrar’s Office, it also removed 290,000 deaths from the census and records.
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«We have until January to do the last verification, but we are already finding the deceased, We are missing some notaries, but we are going to find all the dead that were on the electoral roll, “said the registered Alexander Vega.
And he recalled that families must report the death of their loved ones to the Registry.
In this case, there are still thousands of active dead who appear in voting centers, because “it is nothing more than the omission of relatives who did not register the death.”
The Registrar must explain why there are 4444 cards assigned to voting centers
