Patria Grande (National Program for Migrant Documents Regularization)

Date Shared:

Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 12:00

Title:

Patria Grande (National Program for Migrant Documents Regularization)

Countries and areas:

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Partner(s):

National Government of Argentina

Thematic Area:

Policy coherence and mainstreaming, Rights of migrants, Strategies for addressing irregular migration and enabling regular migration

Tags:

Regional Consultative Processes and International Regional Fora, Policy Coherence, Capacity Building, Empowerment and Rights of Migrants

Summary:

The Argentinean National Migration Directorate established via its disposition N. 53253/2005 a "National Program for Migrant Documents Regularization", which was also called "Patria Grande". This programme was arranged to regularize the immigration status of natives of foreign countries belongining to MERCOSUR (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela) and their associate member countries (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname), that were residing in Argentina prior to April 17th, 2006.

GFMD Source:

M&D Practices Shared within the GFMD context by Steering Group Members (2007 - 2011)

Link:

For more information: http://cpays.cancilleria.gov.ar/content/programa-patria-grande