Panama

Jake Garrett
1/15/09
Position Paper



Currently in the country of Panama the new migration law now only grant visitors only 30 days upon entry into Panama with the possibility of one 60-day extension. Two days prior days to the expiration of your 30 days you will need to go to the immigration office with your application requesting a 60 day extension, two photo copies of your passport with entry stamp, two passport size photos, proof of financial independence, and a copy of your cruising permit. You will also need a Panamanian resident to sponsor you, and you will need a letter from the Panamanian resident, a copy of their ID and a copy of their utility bill showing their address. What the sponsor is doing is agreeing to take full legal and financial responsibility for you. With out this sponsor one will have to leave Panama every 30 days. In either case, prior to your original 30 days or your 60-day extension expiring you must leave the country of Panama and return to your country of residence, before you will be allowed to return to Panama.
Broadly, the new migratory structure in Panama will be executed by the National Service of Migration. Migrant workers face the gravest risks to their human rights and fundamental freedoms when they are recruited, transported and employed in defiance of the law. Mass poverty, unemployment and unemployment offer a fertile field of recruitment to employers and private agents. Illegal immigration is a national target of exploration. Economic recession common practice to restrict legal migration by foreign workers. Stiffer penalties for middlemen who recruit, employees accept illegal migrant labor have been proposed and introduced.