The National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) will meet on July 17 to approve up to five bills, including one that would annul a Cuban from losing his or her residence for spending more than two years outside the country.
The date of the third session of the 10th legislature was confirmed this Thursday in a brief statement.
So far, the Cuban parliament has five bills on the table that are expected to be approved: Migration, Immigration, System of Honorary Titles and Decorations, Administrative Procedure and Transparency.
The first two were published this week.
Cuban migrants, in the parliamentary crosshairs
The new Immigration law has attracted the attention of independent media because the draft eliminates the limit of two years abroad for a Cuban to lose their residency.
According to current legislation, any citizen who spends more than 24 uninterrupted months abroad without processing an extension of his stay is considered an “emigrant” and loses not only rights such as voting, healthcare or education, but also his property.
The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, commented from in that matter.”
New laws in the face of an old crisis… worsening
The island is going through one of its worst crises, worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic and both due to the effect of US sanctions and errors in macroeconomic and monetary policy.
Due to all of these realities, since 2021, some 650,000 Cubans have left for the United States and some 100,000 for Mexico, according to figures managed by the agency. Efe.
Others have emigrated to European countries like Spain, which are difficult to count because many have dual nationality. They have also reached Latin America and regions, such as Russia.
New Immigration Law will eliminate the limit of 24 months abroad to reside in Cuba
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Amid this crisis, thousands of small private businesses have emerged in the socialist country since its legalization in 2021.
In the draft of the Migration law, the island also contemplates the category of residents abroad and “investors and business owners,” the Spanish agency points out.
