I.O.M. Migrant Hub opens in Toledo

Diana Locke

The International Office of Migration and the United States Agency for International Development hosted two Mobile Migrant Hubs in Toledo to provide information and services to migrants for safe and orderly migration. The Mobile Migrant Hubs offer a single location to provide information and services where regularized migrants can obtain foreign national documents, applications for work permits, birth certificates and other documents. This weekend hubs were held in southern villages.

Diana Locke, Head, IOM Belize Office

“We have already covered Bella Vista, Valley of Peace and Benque. We will be going to Placencia. We will be doing San Pedro, Belize City, Orange Walk, Corozal and Dangriga. So by August we should have covered the entire country.”

Keith Gilges

Keith Gilges, Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy

“What is great about this program is that in so many ways it is saying you are entitled to certain services and there are things that you can get. You just need a little help figuring out what may seem like a not complex process but for someone going through it for the first time who doesn’t know all the rights and wrongs of what they are doing to have some help from folks who do know makes a huge difference.”