Cuba Dropping Its Much-Reviled Exit Visa Requirement
In a country of limits, it is the restriction that many Cubans hate the most: the exit visa that the government requires for travel abroad and can be onerous to get, trapping many Cubans looking to leave even for just a few days.
But now that bureaucratic barrier is on its way out. The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it would terminate the exit visa requirement as of Jan. 13, letting many Cubans depart for vacations, or forever, with only a passport and a visa from the country where they plan to go.
Complete article in The New York Times.
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Cuba elimina permiso de salida para viajar al exterior
Los medios de comunicación estatales dijeron que la medida, que entrará en vigencia el 14 de enero del año próximo, forma parte de la “modernización” de las leyes de migración para reflejar las circunstancias actuales y futuras.
Artículo completo en BBC Mundo.
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lostincuba reblogged this from thisis2012 and added:
There seem to be many caveats to this, but it is perhaps the most significant reform under Raul.
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