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Some Venezuelans with registration cards are worried because their bosses are refusing to give them the job letters they need for the current process of updating their registration.
Since last Monday, the 16,523 Venezuelans who received an amnesty to be able to work and live in TT began to drop off their documents at Immigration Division offices.
One of the requirements is a current job letter. But several refugees told Newsday their bosses had refused to give them these letters.
Mauris Bencomo said: "I have been working as a domestic in a house for ten months, but the owner told me that she cannot give me the letter."
Her employer is afraid of getting into trouble for hiring an immigrant, she said. Bencomo is concerned because she needs the letter.
"My boss told me that she would rather fire me than give me the letter. It is worrying and outrageous," she said.
Bencomo said she has several friends with the same problem.
"My cousin also works cleaning houses and the bosses do not want to give her the letter. They even told her that she will not be able to leave during working hours to deposit the envelope."
Some Venezuelans have dropped off their own documents and those of other people at the same time.
Those who have not been able to get job letters include some workers in construction and agriculture. Some Venezuelans have also complained that landlords have been unwilling to give them letters to prove their addresses or receipts to show they have paid utility bills.
National Security Minister Stuart Young announced last week that Venezuelan migrants would be re-registered from March 8-26. Information on the process is posted on the ministry’s website.
Only Venezuelans who had already successfully registered from May 31-June 14, 2019, in the historic amnesty drive, and who received a registration card are eligible to re-register.
Young said recently that local employers are on safe legal ground if they hire Venezuelans with registration cards, even if they have already expired.
Editor's note: Some names have been changed to protect interviewees.
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