IOM / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS
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STORY: IOM / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS
TRT: 03:36
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: OCTOBER 2022, SAN CRISTOBAL AND SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
SHOTLIST:
OCTOBER 2022, SAN CRISTOBAL, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1. Wide shot, YULY cooking corn flour patties commonly known as arepas
2. Close up, arepas
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My first months in the Dominican Republic were of adaptation.”
4. Various shots, Yuly preparing sweets for selling
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“After I started making arepas and sweet pastry and selling that on the streets, honestly sales went very well.”
6. Wide shot, Yuly on her motorbike delivering food to clients
7. Med shot, Yuly hand delivering food to clients
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My project, Delis Yulys started in 2018. I named it after all delicious things I prepare with my own hands. Our customers are mainly Dominicans that love our flavour. When they tell me how much they like it, I always say it´s because they are made with love.”
9. Various shots, Yuli cooking
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My aim is to deliver our products everywhere with a tax number in place, so, we can properly be registered as a business.”
11. Various shots, Yuli cooking
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“When I arrived, like any other Venezuelan, I wanted to go back to Venezuela to visit and reunite with my family, but I decided to give it a try, and see what opportunities the Dominican Republic could offer. And so far, the people here have been so king to me and also to all Venezuelans that have arrived looking for
OCTOBER 2022, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
13. Close up, sign reading Normalization Plan for Venezuelans
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Zinnia Martinez, Officer, International Organization for Migration:
“The Regularization Process is implemented in three stages. The first one id the application for extension of stay. Thousands of Venezuelans were in irregular stay and this extension gives them regularity status. The second stage is the visa obtention when people get a visa stamped on their passports and the third stage where they get their resident permit that it is renovated every year.”
15. Various shots, information hubs where migrants are going through regularization process
16. Wide shot, IOM staff giving information to Venezuelan migrants on regularization grants
STORYLINE:
Yuly Gorrín, a 46-year-old Venezuelan entrepreneur, has been a food vendor selling white corn flour patties popularly known as arepas, alongside other Venezuelan traditional pastries, since 2018.
After four years, she has a sense of relief as she is set to get her regularization visa, which to her is a license to dream and one that will allow her to take her business to a different level beyond what her irregular status could.
The historic country´s Special Stay Arrangements, supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is providing a lifeline to Venezuelan migrants, allowing them to access decent jobs, health care and education by joining the social security system, and have bank accounts. The Dominican Republic is the first country to receive the Venezuelan population in the Caribbean, with more than 115,000 seeking new opportunities in the country.
The regularization process takes three stages, the first being the application for extension of stay, visa, and resident permit. Since April 2020, more than 42,000 Venezuelans have registered to extend their stay and, in September 2022, more than 21,000 have received their work visa. Thousands of others continue to go through one of the stages of the three-step plan.
With IOM support, eight Venezuelan migrant organizations have created orientation hubs commonly known as “Ventanillas de Orientacion Gratuita” where more than 15,000 people applying for the plan have received process information, guidance, and documentation. The promoters and coordinators of each hub – mostly Venezuelan migrants – have learned the process and are piloting the group to receive their extensions and visas, making the process unique.
"A migrant helping a migrant, that is the idea of this process. My job as a Venezuelan is to guide other Venezuelans and make them feel like they are at home,” says Yuleima Sarraga, an educational promoter from Caracas who now works as a promoter at the orientation hub in Santo Domingo, one of the locations with the most people requesting support for their application.
The regularization of Venezuelan migrants and refugees is a crucial issue for host countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that hosts majority of the displaced people: almost 6 million of the 7,1 million worldwide. Several countries are promoting the inclusion of the Venezuelans who are seeking to remain in their host communities, providing solutions and hope to thousands of migrants and sending an important message to foster inclusion and reintegration into hosting countries.
The response of Latin America and the Caribbean to Venezuelans could serve as a model of solidarity to other countries. Initiatives in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and other countries are facilitating documentation and seeking solutions to regularize and offer protection to the Venezuelan population, via different instruments in their national legislation.
These include platforms for coordination between regional governments that draw on technical expertise from nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations. However, regularization is a path, not a destination. To arrive at the destination of successful integration, continuous support by the international community is needed.
Like Yuly, migrants in Dominican Republic are optimistic of the future. She foresees a lot of opportunities as she can now expands her business.
TRT: 03:36
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: OCTOBER 2022, SAN CRISTOBAL AND SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
SHOTLIST:
OCTOBER 2022, SAN CRISTOBAL, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1. Wide shot, YULY cooking corn flour patties commonly known as arepas
2. Close up, arepas
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My first months in the Dominican Republic were of adaptation.”
4. Various shots, Yuly preparing sweets for selling
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“After I started making arepas and sweet pastry and selling that on the streets, honestly sales went very well.”
6. Wide shot, Yuly on her motorbike delivering food to clients
7. Med shot, Yuly hand delivering food to clients
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My project, Delis Yulys started in 2018. I named it after all delicious things I prepare with my own hands. Our customers are mainly Dominicans that love our flavour. When they tell me how much they like it, I always say it´s because they are made with love.”
9. Various shots, Yuli cooking
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“My aim is to deliver our products everywhere with a tax number in place, so, we can properly be registered as a business.”
11. Various shots, Yuli cooking
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yuly Gorrin, Venezuelan Migrant Entrepreneur:
“When I arrived, like any other Venezuelan, I wanted to go back to Venezuela to visit and reunite with my family, but I decided to give it a try, and see what opportunities the Dominican Republic could offer. And so far, the people here have been so king to me and also to all Venezuelans that have arrived looking for
OCTOBER 2022, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
13. Close up, sign reading Normalization Plan for Venezuelans
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Zinnia Martinez, Officer, International Organization for Migration:
“The Regularization Process is implemented in three stages. The first one id the application for extension of stay. Thousands of Venezuelans were in irregular stay and this extension gives them regularity status. The second stage is the visa obtention when people get a visa stamped on their passports and the third stage where they get their resident permit that it is renovated every year.”
15. Various shots, information hubs where migrants are going through regularization process
16. Wide shot, IOM staff giving information to Venezuelan migrants on regularization grants
STORYLINE:
Yuly Gorrín, a 46-year-old Venezuelan entrepreneur, has been a food vendor selling white corn flour patties popularly known as arepas, alongside other Venezuelan traditional pastries, since 2018.
After four years, she has a sense of relief as she is set to get her regularization visa, which to her is a license to dream and one that will allow her to take her business to a different level beyond what her irregular status could.
The historic country´s Special Stay Arrangements, supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is providing a lifeline to Venezuelan migrants, allowing them to access decent jobs, health care and education by joining the social security system, and have bank accounts. The Dominican Republic is the first country to receive the Venezuelan population in the Caribbean, with more than 115,000 seeking new opportunities in the country.
The regularization process takes three stages, the first being the application for extension of stay, visa, and resident permit. Since April 2020, more than 42,000 Venezuelans have registered to extend their stay and, in September 2022, more than 21,000 have received their work visa. Thousands of others continue to go through one of the stages of the three-step plan.
With IOM support, eight Venezuelan migrant organizations have created orientation hubs commonly known as “Ventanillas de Orientacion Gratuita” where more than 15,000 people applying for the plan have received process information, guidance, and documentation. The promoters and coordinators of each hub – mostly Venezuelan migrants – have learned the process and are piloting the group to receive their extensions and visas, making the process unique.
"A migrant helping a migrant, that is the idea of this process. My job as a Venezuelan is to guide other Venezuelans and make them feel like they are at home,” says Yuleima Sarraga, an educational promoter from Caracas who now works as a promoter at the orientation hub in Santo Domingo, one of the locations with the most people requesting support for their application.
The regularization of Venezuelan migrants and refugees is a crucial issue for host countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that hosts majority of the displaced people: almost 6 million of the 7,1 million worldwide. Several countries are promoting the inclusion of the Venezuelans who are seeking to remain in their host communities, providing solutions and hope to thousands of migrants and sending an important message to foster inclusion and reintegration into hosting countries.
The response of Latin America and the Caribbean to Venezuelans could serve as a model of solidarity to other countries. Initiatives in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and other countries are facilitating documentation and seeking solutions to regularize and offer protection to the Venezuelan population, via different instruments in their national legislation.
These include platforms for coordination between regional governments that draw on technical expertise from nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations. However, regularization is a path, not a destination. To arrive at the destination of successful integration, continuous support by the international community is needed.
Like Yuly, migrants in Dominican Republic are optimistic of the future. She foresees a lot of opportunities as she can now expands her business.
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