CUBA NEWS
January 13, 2003

FROM CUBA
Cubans will not need visas to travel to the island, says official

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, January 10 (www.cubanet.org) - A high Cuban immigration department official announced that shortly Cubans residing abroad will in most cases, not need visas to travel to the island.

The official, lieutenant colonel Lamberto Fraga, in charge of the department, said they are now in the process of implementing procedures so that Cubans who have all their documentation certified will be able to travel in and out of Cuba as often as they wish without the need for further permits or visas.

Fraga said Cubans who have "a hostile attitude against the Revolution" would not benefit from the new measures.

In October, 2003, the Foreign Ministry had announced the measures would be put in place. "The decision is a signal of the government's will to facilitate... contacts between Cubans abroad and their relatives in Cuba," read the ministry's press release at the time.

Some economists estimate that remittances sent to relatives and money spent during visits by Cubans abroad constitute the second most important source of income to the island's economy, ranging upwards of 800 million dollars a year.


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