The measure aims to design strategies more closely aligned with market demands, always based on current immigration regulations and laws.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The General Directorate of Migration (DGM) reported yesterday, Monday, that it has met with representatives from various productive sectors of the country to analyze possible solutions, adjusted to current migration regulations and the requirements for foreign labor to work in their activities.
A press release explains that DGM officials, led by Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester, have met with representatives of the construction sector and others, where the need to conduct a detailed survey to quantify the specific labor needs of each sector has been raised.
The measure aims to design strategies more closely aligned with market demands, always based on current immigration regulations and laws.
In that regard, immigration authorities have met with directors of the Dominican Association of Housing Builders and Promoters (Acoprovi), the Association of Builders of Santo Domingo East (Acosde), the Association of Promoters and Builders of Cibao (Aprocovici), the Association of Builders and Developers of La Altagracia (Adecla) and the La Altagracia Tourism Business Alliance (Aleta), the press document points out.
It also indicates that meetings have taken place with representatives of producers of bananas, rice, plantains, coffee, cocoa, beans, and avocados, chickens, eggs; and of livestock farmers and pig farmers.
During the meetings, the head of the DGM pointed out that for a foreign worker to have a legal immigration status in the country, it is essential that, when starting the procedures, they present valid identity documents issued by the authorities of their country of origin.
Lee Ballester stressed the importance of employers hiring foreigners who are properly registered and authorized by immigration laws to perform paid work in the country.
"The actions of the DGM are aligned with the directives of President Luis Abinader, who has reiterated the need to Dominicanize and mechanize agricultural and construction activities, as well as to guarantee a balance between the labor needs of the sectors and compliance with immigration regulations," Lee Ballester highlighted in the press release.
In addition to DGM officials, those present included the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Eulalio Ramírez; the senator for La Altagracia, Rafael Duluc; the deputy Carmen Ligia Barceló, member of the Labor Commission of the Lower House; and the director of the Dominican Coffee Institute (Indocafe), Leonardo Batista Díaz.
