More than half of the 1.5 million foreigners in Peru, mostly from Venezuela, are in the country under an irregular immigration status, Peru’s interior minister said Wednesday. The Peruvian government has said it is working with representatives from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela to evaluate the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” to allow the migrants to travel back to Venezuela. Around 150 Venezuelans will go back to their country on a flight from the Chilean city of Arica, which borders Peru, this weekend, Peruvian Foreign Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi also told Congress. Most of Peru’s undocumented population arrived in the country after the government began granting Venezuelan migrants temporary residency in 2017, Romero said, with many migrants’ temporary residency since expiring. To combat the issue, Peru’s government has set a deadline to allow foreigners to regularize their immigration status.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 04, 2023 16:16 UTC