{"id":229318,"date":"2020-10-20T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=229318"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:46:56","slug":"minrex-no-cost-extension-for-cubans-abroad-will-be-maintained-until-flights-are-normalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/minrex-no-cost-extension-for-cubans-abroad-will-be-maintained-until-flights-are-normalized\/","title":{"rendered":"MINREX: no-cost extension for Cubans abroad will be maintained until flights are normalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/minrex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> confirmed this Monday that the collection of the extension for Cubans\u2019 stay abroad beyond the 24 months established by law will remain suspended until \u201cnormality is achieved in terms of regular flights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe key factor will be when we return to normal in terms of regular flights, because ultimately what a Cuban citizen needs to be able to return to the country is a flight,\u201d said Ernesto Sober\u00f3n Guzm\u00e1n, general director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad of MINREX, in response to <\/span><b>OnCuba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suspension of the collection of the extension, which allows those who have exceeded the time established by the island\u2019s immigration law to maintain residence in Cuba, had been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/cubanos-fuera-de-la-isla-no-tendran-que-solicitar-prorrogas-consulares-hasta-nuevo-aviso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decreed last March<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to the coronavirus pandemic. Its objective then, explained Sober\u00f3n, was \u201cto guarantee that Cubans who were abroad when flights between Cuba and abroad became difficult due to the pandemic, maintain their permanent residence in Cuba without having to carry out any consular procedures or go to any consulate, since it was a situation that was beyond these citizens\u2019 will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, recently the Cuban consulates restored the tariff for each month of extension abroad, after the announcement by Havana of a new plan to confront COVID-19 and the entry of most of the country into the so-called \u201cnew normal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7zoRScUi9O\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/nation-and-migration\/collection-of-extensions-for-cubans-living-abroad-a-citizen-question\/\">Collection of extensions for Cubans living abroad: a citizen question<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Collection of extensions for Cubans living abroad: a citizen question&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/nation-and-migration\/collection-of-extensions-for-cubans-living-abroad-a-citizen-question\/embed\/#?secret=cX4zddF437#?secret=7zoRScUi9O\" data-secret=\"7zoRScUi9O\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The measure, however, was quickly rectified, after the criticism and discomfort generated in a large part of the Cuban community outside the island. Last Friday, just four days after the charge was reestablished, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/nacion-y-emigracion\/suspendido-el-cobro-de-prorroga-por-estancia-de-cubanos-en-el-exterior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MINREX announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that \u201cthe possibility for our nationals to return to the country without having to carry out consular procedures to extend their stay abroad, while this situation persists,\u201d is extended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, Sober\u00f3n specified that in order to make this decision they had taken into account the still not opened Havana airport, the main and largest operational capacity in the country, and the outbreaks of the disease in different countries, some of which have important communities of Cubans. In addition, he explained that \u201cthe opinions received from different associations of Cubans living abroad, as well as criteria expressed on a personal level by Cubans who have been unable to return to our country\u201d were taken into account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to this, he said, the extension\u2015which he described as \u201ca procedure not used much\u201d before the pandemic\u2015will remain \u201cfor the moment,\u201d and he affirmed that the issue would be re-analyzed when regular flights from and to Cuba are normalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere will be countries where there are a number of flights that allow the return of everyone who wants to return; there will be others in which the epidemiological situation will not allow that amount of flights; there will be countries that will have their own regulations, and all this will have to be taken into account when making new decisions, because it is a matter that exceeds the will of the people, and it would not be fair not to extend the stay of whoever is in a country from where there are no flights when their interest is to return to Cuba,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>No taboo topics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the press conference, the general director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad of MINREX also referred to the work carried out by Cuban consulates and consular offices outside the island to tend to the Cuban community residing abroad during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He affirmed that, among other actions, the transfer to Cuba of more than 5,700 Cubans stranded in 56 countries, on 94 charter flights, was negotiated with airlines and authorities from different countries; and that consular assistance was provided to Cuban crew members enrolled in more than 12 cruise ships and more than 20 merchant ships, stranded in ports throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, he said that \u201cpriority was given to the cases of Cuban citizens who were infected with COVID-19\u201d outside the country and \u201cthe necessary support to the families and friends of Cuban citizens who, unfortunately, have died abroad because of this disease\u201d was provided, although he didn\u2019t give statistics regarding these cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, he assured that there are no issues vetoed in Cuba\u2019s dialogue with its emigrated citizens, including the repeated claim that the price be reduced for the issuance of passports, one of the most expensive in the world, and that the biennial payment to keep it current be eliminated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is one of the topics that are frequently discussed in all the meetings held with Cubans (residents abroad) and it is a topic that is in conversation, that is under analysis,\u201d said Sober\u00f3n in response to the Spanish agency EFE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the official, the main objective of Cuban migration policy \u201cis and will continue to be to strengthen ties\u201d with its community abroad, which is estimated at around two million people.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vRiZDhGH3D\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/nacion-y-emigracion\/si-no-nos-conocemos-no-nos-entendemos\/\">Si no nos conocemos, no nos entendemos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abSi no nos conocemos, no nos entendemos\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/nacion-y-emigracion\/si-no-nos-conocemos-no-nos-entendemos\/embed\/#?secret=8hExcB1RMc#?secret=vRiZDhGH3D\" data-secret=\"vRiZDhGH3D\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the high cost of the Cuban passport and its fee for extending it every two years, he said that the island\u2019s government is \u201cfully aware\u201d that it is one of the pending issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is one of the topics that is frequently discussed in all the meetings with Cubans abroad, and it remains in conversation, in analysis,\u201d he acknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sober\u00f3n pointed out that the policy towards the Cuban community abroad \u201cis kept under constant analysis\u201d and that \u201cthere are no taboo subjects that cannot be discussed between Cuba and its nationals abroad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot everything is resolved in relations between Cuba and Cubans abroad,\u201d added the official, who said that the only thing he opposes \u201cis the catastrophic visions that there are issues that have no solution. So far it has been shown that all issues regarding relations between Cuba and Cubans abroad have been gradually solved.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the future we will continue along the same lines,\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) confirmed this Monday that the collection of the extension for Cubans\u2019 stay abroad beyond the 24 months established by law will remain suspended until \u201cnormality is achieved in terms of regular flights.\u201d \u201cThe key factor will be when we return to normal in terms of regular flights, because 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