In the past five years, the foreign population in Panama has increased by 124,433 people who managed to acquire regulated residence or immigration status in the country. Statistics from the National Immigration, revealed that during 2014 and the first 6 months of 2015, Venezuelans topped the list of foreigners with more approved residencies, followed by Colombians, who until 2013, topped the list.
Still, from 2010 to 2014 it was the Colombians who managed the most residencies with 15,244, compared with 8,266 Venezuelans approved.
In all, from 2010 until 31 July, 66,781 residencies were approved for foreigners, plus 57,652 residencies were issued and approved in the four years of the melting pot program.
During the first six months of the year, Spaniards, Italians and Americans have occupied the third, fourth and fifth place, respectively in approved residencies.
In Central America, Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans are the only ones off the list this year. However, between 2010 and 2014, some 611 Guatemalans acquired residency.
Statistics also show that 1,595 have been refused applications for residency, but this was not broken down by nationality.
Colombians were the largest population using the melting pot, a program that was created in 2010 and lasted until 2014.
During this period, 27,541 Colombians legalized their immigration status in the country, followed by Nicaragua (11,745) and Dominicans (6,434). Meanwhile, 5,148 Venezuelans regulated their status during this period and 985 Peruvians.
The list is composed of 89 nationalities including African, European and American.
Of the 57,652 foreigners who managed to regulate their status in the country during the past four years, 18,713 had renewed their license until 2014, ie 38,939 were others whose permits had not been renewed or were still in force.
Last May, the government launched a plan to renew these permits that had expired and explained that they would be granted new permits.
For the sociologist Marcos Gandásegui, there is underreporting of the foreign population in the country because the official figure apparently does not match the reality that is palpable in the streets. Although, he said, the theme is not statistical, but there is an absence of a migration policy to correctly produce numbers.
Gandásegui complained of the lack of immigration policy taken advantage of by the business sector, to hire cheap labor and pay below the minimum wage established in the country.
That fact was also recently reported by the Conato.
The sociologist said that migration is common in countries with economic growth like Panama.
In 2010, the government created the program Crisol Races, referred to above as the Melting Pot.
In four years, 57,652 foreigners were able to regulate their immigration status in the country with that program.
From 2010 until 31 July this year, another 66,781 have established their residency in Panama............
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Still, from 2010 to 2014 it was the Colombians who managed the most residencies with 15,244, compared with 8,266 Venezuelans approved.
In all, from 2010 until 31 July, 66,781 residencies were approved for foreigners, plus 57,652 residencies were issued and approved in the four years of the melting pot program.
During the first six months of the year, Spaniards, Italians and Americans have occupied the third, fourth and fifth place, respectively in approved residencies.
In Central America, Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans are the only ones off the list this year. However, between 2010 and 2014, some 611 Guatemalans acquired residency.
Statistics also show that 1,595 have been refused applications for residency, but this was not broken down by nationality.
Colombians were the largest population using the melting pot, a program that was created in 2010 and lasted until 2014.
During this period, 27,541 Colombians legalized their immigration status in the country, followed by Nicaragua (11,745) and Dominicans (6,434). Meanwhile, 5,148 Venezuelans regulated their status during this period and 985 Peruvians.
The list is composed of 89 nationalities including African, European and American.
Of the 57,652 foreigners who managed to regulate their status in the country during the past four years, 18,713 had renewed their license until 2014, ie 38,939 were others whose permits had not been renewed or were still in force.
Last May, the government launched a plan to renew these permits that had expired and explained that they would be granted new permits.
For the sociologist Marcos Gandásegui, there is underreporting of the foreign population in the country because the official figure apparently does not match the reality that is palpable in the streets. Although, he said, the theme is not statistical, but there is an absence of a migration policy to correctly produce numbers.
Gandásegui complained of the lack of immigration policy taken advantage of by the business sector, to hire cheap labor and pay below the minimum wage established in the country.
That fact was also recently reported by the Conato.
The sociologist said that migration is common in countries with economic growth like Panama.
In 2010, the government created the program Crisol Races, referred to above as the Melting Pot.
In four years, 57,652 foreigners were able to regulate their immigration status in the country with that program.
From 2010 until 31 July this year, another 66,781 have established their residency in Panama............
http://laestrella.com.pa/panama/nacional/cifras-migracion-rinen-percepcion-extranjeros-calle/23887760
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