:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/QW23FPSYRBFY7NU6TW4URUT73Y.jpg "Migration no longer detains Russian pregnant women arriving in Argentina at Ezeiza")
The court decision to allow four pregnant Russians to enter two weeks ago prompted a change in the checks carried out at Ezeiza International Airport. Since then, as confirmed by official sources to GlobeLiveMedia, there were no women retained, although the arrival of Russians with advanced pregnancies, even over 30 weeks, is repeated almost every day. “The international airport cannot be transformed into a maternity ward“warned an official who monitors every report from Ezeiza.
On February 10, the the federal judge Luis Armella, who subrogates the federal court 2 of Lomas de Zamora, competent for the airport, authorized the entry into the country of the four pregnant Russian women who presented themselves habeas corpus after being detained at the airport. The magistrate maintained that “what the Migrations did was correct insofar as to enter to settle in the country, one must go through the corresponding procedures and not declare the entry as a tourist”. However, admission was decided”taking into account the advanced state of pregnancy, and for humanitarian reasons”.
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Migrations had begun to tighten controls on the most suspicious cases after an investigation that lasted more than six months. The boom of pregnant women took place from August. “We decided to interview more than 350 women to establish a pattern because we understood that there could be human trafficking. They all told us that they had gone through agencies”, explained the director of Migrations, Florencia Carignano. Although dozens of residences have been granted, the government has come out to clarify that the National Registry of People (Renaper) did not issue any passports to Russian citizens with a citizenship letter issued by the Argentine justice to those who entered the country in 2022 and so far in 2023.
The phenomenon has also given rise to a judicial investigation, by the María Servini Court, into the organizations that bring pregnant women to give birth in Argentina. This file is under summary secrecy, so that the measures of evidence are not disclosed. Although the focus is on agencies that take advantage of the needs of Russian women, the Directorate of Migration asked to be a complainant to have access to the file, could know this medium.
If the proposal is accepted, Migrations will be able to know all the details of the case (once the secrecy of the summary is lifted) and even promote investigative measures. Until now, Migrations had only responded to official letters from the court and then sent one of its employees to explain the administrative issues with the filing process.
Regardless of this cause, migrations performed a criminal complaint investigate the statements of a lawyer, Christian Rubilar, who advises pregnant Russian women. “We ask you to summon him under oath to ratify his remarks with evidence”, they limited themselves to saying in Migrations. This is because Rubilar had connected migration officials with the agencies involved. The presentation was already drawn and it was the turn of the federal court 9of Luis Rodriguez, who has already announced his retirement.
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One of the agencies investigated, as revealed by GlobeLiveMedia, belongs to Elena Kuklina, Who was born in Ukraine but has Russian nationality. In the file, it was already determined that an official who works for Kuklina presented false papers for Migration to extend the permanent residence of several Russian women who had a child in Argentina, a phenomenon which exploded following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and sanctions to which Russian citizens are subjected.
Permanent residence is an essential step for, after a judicial presentation, Obtain Argentine citizenship and passport.
According to the government, over the past year more than 10,500 Russian pregnant women Giving birth But more than 7,000 are no longer in Argentina. “Only 2,400 have completed the filing process. There is a movement of Russians going straight to court to process the passport, they don’t care about citizenship so they can live,” Carignano explained.
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