Venezuela will ask immigration card to Colombians to enter its territory

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Venezuela will ask Colombians to use a Border Immigration Control Card as of Monday, June 17 for their transit through the country. The announcement was made on Monday night by Freddy Bernal, named protector of the state Táchira, within the framework of the start of the regularization operation of the border crossing between both countries. "These cards will be encrypted with special codes, so they will be unique and inviolable," Bernal explained in his Twitter account.

First you must register and download the supplied document. Then it must be taken to the office of the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Immigration (Saime) in Venezuela to be validated with a wet seal. This operation will be accompanied by officials of the Saime and the Migration Police and the procedure will be free. "I invite Colombian citizens to come to this new control system, which is reliable and safe to ensure the protection and safe passage of the Simón Bolívar International Bridge," Bernal said. The deputy of the National Assembly (AN) for the Táchira state, Karim Vera, questioned the reason for this new requirement. In an interview for TVVenezuela News, he indicated that "some background must have, because the mobility of Colombians to Venezuela is not enough to merit the use of a kind of immigration card." In addition, he asked what would be the mechanisms that will really allow formal control over Colombian citizens entering Venezuelan territory. The government in dispute of President Nicolás Maduro ordered the reopening of the border crossings of Norte de Santander, in the Táchira state, after almost four months closed after the opposition made a failed attempt to pass humanitarian aid collected and stored in Cúcuta