Mexican Tarjetas de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias and Firm Resettlement:
A Practice Advisory for Advocates. Inglés
IMUMI
2019
IMUMI
In the context of the Central American exodus (e.g., the “caravans” of people fleeing Central America and traveling in groups through Mexico and to the United States) and the election of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican government began granting the legal status of visitor for humanitarian reasons, commonly known as a “humanitarian visa,” to migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, and other nations. Recipients of the status are issued a formal migration document, a card known as the Tarjeta de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias (“TVRH” or “card of a visitor for humanitarian reasons” in English), with “visitante” written across the top. In late September of 2018, at an employment fair in Tijuana organized in anticipation of the arrival of the first multi-thousand-person group from Central America, the federal government started distributing TVRHs to those who solicited them through an abbreviated application, screening, and interview process.