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Situation
• After six months, on 10 November, the deadline to apply for the Temporary Residence Card (CPP, by its acronym in Spanish) reached to an end. The National Superintendence of Migration (SNM) registered 214.633 requests of the CPP, out of which, 63.000 persons received the card and 36.000 cards are pending collection. With the CPP, foreigners can regularise their migratory status, access public services, work or start a formal business, and carry out administrative procedures, among others. This process is part of the governmental efforts to promote regularisation, however, the Ombudsperson's office declared that there have been some limitations along the process. Namely, difficulties to schedule appointments and collect the CPP due to the geographical location of the migratory offices. Besides, the Government of Peru (GoP) will not extend this regularisation pathway, which could limit access to regularization for those aiming to reside in Peru who, for different reasons, were unable to initiate this procedure before the deadline.
• Four days after the deadline of the regularisation process, the GoP enacted Legislative Decree No. 1582, which amends and incorporates various articles to the Migration Law, amongst others, it implements a special administrative sanctioning procedure (PASEE, by its acronym in Spanish), which allows expelling from the country within 48 hours foreigners who are in an irregular migratory situation or are linked to criminal activities. The Decree also allows supervising and sanctioning transport and lodging companies that provide services to foreign citizens in an irregular migratory situation.
• On 15 November, the GoP extended the State of Emergency declared on 19 September in Lima (San Juan de Lurigancho and San Martín de Porres districts, where around 20 per cent of Venezuelans reside) and Piura, to reduce criminality.