Cuba said to be violating
migration agreements with U.S. Since 1984, the U.S. and Cuba have entered
into several agreements on the migration of Cubans. See Joint Communiques on
Immigration Matters, December 14, 1984, T.I.A.S. 11057; 2034 U.N.T.S. 193, as modified
on September 9, 1994 and May 2, 1995; collectively Migration Accords. Under the
Accords, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) must see to it that it documents at
least 20,000 Cubans per year to migrate to the U.S. for permanent residence.
During Fiscal Year 2003 (October 2002 through September 2003), the DOS issued
more than 20,000 immigrant visas to Cuban nationals. According to the DOS, the
burden clearly rests on the Cuban government to grant exit permits to all those
Cubans who have received U.S. travel documents and to remove the roadblocks it
has put up against fully carrying out the Accords. In particular, the DOS calls
on the Cuban Government to halt its discriminatory practices of denying such
permits to doctors, information technology professionals, and family members of
Cubans who have sought freedom in the United States. At the last round of
Migration Talks in June 2003, the DOS declared that it had identified over 600
individual cases of Cubans unfairly denied exit permits. Citation: Press
Statement by Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, U.S. Dept. of State, Washington, D.
C.; released on Monday, September 22, 2003; 19:05:31 ‑0400 (EDT).
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