What makes you want to leave Venezuela but you can't get a passport because you don't have enough paper?

According to the report of Zerohedge, a well-known foreign financial blog, in order to escape from the deteriorating country here, the demand for passports in Venezuela has soared, but the government cannot supply enough paper to print passports, which makes it almost impossible for people to leave Venezuela.

Sonia Schott, a former Washington correspondent of Venezuela news network Globovisión, said: "Those who once moved to Venezuela from America, Europe and Asia are now planning to leave."

Last year, the Venezuelan government received 6.5438+800,000 to 3 million passport applications, but only 300,000 were approved for issuance. Every day, hundreds of people line up in front of the immigration office in Galasca, hoping to get passports.

This is an ironic and sad story. Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in Latin America. People used to gather in this country instead of leaving like this.

Tomás Páez, author of The Voice of Migrants in Venezuela, said that nearly 2 million people have left Venezuela since 1999, and hundreds of thousands more are waiting for government approval. Once they get the funds and passports, they will leave.

Venezuelan President Maduro also acknowledged the long-term shortage of passports and launched a new online service last week: applicants only need to pay twice the on-site processing price to get passports within 72 hours. But this website has crashed many times, and it is not clear how many passports have been issued through this service.

The Venezuelan Immigration Bureau pointed out that the passport application channel was blocked because the Immigration Bureau lacked sufficient materials, and they did not specify what this meant. As we all know, paper products, including toilet paper, are in short supply in Venezuela. Some people think that this has caused a shortage of paper for issuing passports.

Some skeptics believe that this may be a means for the Maduro government to try to prevent people from leaving Venezuela.

Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American program at the Wilson Center, said: "People who have the conditions want to leave Venezuela, but they just can't get passports. The lack of sufficient materials is an excuse for the Venezuelan government, because they know that the real reason why people want passports is to leave Venezuela (not travel or other). "

According to reports, most of Venezuela's 30 million residents do not meet the conditions for immigration (there are enough funds), because on the black market in Venezuela, the monthly minimum wage is less than $30.