Africa-Press – Cape verde. Immigrants in Boa Vista now have at their disposal a “Local Immigration Unit” designed to provide integrated services for both the Public Administration and the Municipality of Boa Vista. The unit, inaugurated on Friday the 27th, will operate in the Social Services building of the City Council (BUCAM Building), in Sal Rei.
A inauguração oficial da “Unidade Local para a Imigração” contou com a presença do ministro do Estado, da Família, Inclusão e Desenvolvimento Social, Fernando Elísio Freire, e do presidente da Câmara Municipal da Boa Vista, Cláudio Mendonça.
Na ocasião, o ministério da Família e a autarquia boavistense, rubricaram um protocolo visando a implementação da referida “Unidade Local para a Imigração”.
“Este protocolo demonstra a alma, a forma de ser do país em lidar com o mundo. É aquilo que se deve fazer em todos os cantos de Cabo Verde que é criar todas as condições para que as estruturas do Estado, nomeadamente as Câmaras Municipais e Governo nas suas diversas representações tratem de forma digna, rápida e com eficácia os imigrantes que procuram os seus serviços”, considerou Fernando Elísio Freire.
Serviços para “melhor acolher” os imigrantes
The minister also said that this is the way the country has to treat immigrants with regard to the services they may need, from the border, when they arrive at the airport, legalization by the police and immigration and border services, in the accesses to jobs, residence, light and water, sanitation and all the goods and services they need to relate to State services.
Fernando Elísio Freire defended that it is up to the Government to organize so that the “Local Unit for Immigration” is the place where immigrants will not only have access to public administration when necessary, but also to local services of the City Council such as access to housing, land, licenses for economic activities, among others.
Approaching the immigrant community
For his part, the mayor of Boa Vista, Cláudio Mendonça, considered that the aforementioned protocol reinforces the need for work that allows the creation of a legal framework to establish or hold entities accountable in order to give greater flow and greater body to what who are immigrant communities on the island and in the country.
Cláudio Mendonça also said that the local authority has done an “extraordinary job” of approaching the immigrant community through its groups, and its religious communities, with particular attention to their concerns and requests.
In this sense, he appealed to the Government and the president of the High Authority for Immigration (AAI) to make every possible effort to implement the unit to give vent to this migration process that is taking place and that will continue to grow.
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