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Despite lighter crowds this week, migrants continued to turn up at registration centres across the country as the government's Migrant Registration Framework moves into its in-person verification phase.

Applicants say the process has been largely smooth, though some concerns have been raised about logistics at certain locations.
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00:22I feel it is a great thing for the country, everybody should be put in a system for their
00:29work for everybody, the law could protect them, that's a really good thing and all people
00:36who are going to register, they worry about the country, the government might get all their
00:41dates and deport them home, but I hope that between the people and the government have
00:47a trust on it.
01:16Some people get appointments for Arima here and some people for Kuva, but some of the
01:23people on them now, I come with a family and they're like, how they get big, how come
01:28some Arima and some Kuva?
01:30So I tell them like, I don't know what's going on.
01:33And earlier on we had an issue on all too, the woman want to use the washroom, a woman
01:36different, a man could always go on the side of the road and urinate to have a woman different.
01:45The process from seven o'clock, the appointment was eight o'clock and I still waiting for
01:51them to come out.
01:52The process was very fast, everybody with the paper, the documents, the officers tell
01:57them what documents they have to have in hand, they're checking it in the first point here.
02:02And I know inside because I know how, no, they have plenty of people who are coming out.
02:06And also they have a girl who now went in and she come out because she have a small baby
02:10and they gave, she chance to come out faster.
02:23The translation is very short because most of the officers speak a little, not so much
02:29the important things they're using the phone to translate.
02:33and they was going okay.
02:35And I was helping a little while later to translate some of the people who understand what they're
02:40saying.
02:41So I just tell them that they have to use the phone, the phone, what is in front where they
02:48pity, to just come to the desk.
02:50And from there, they start to carry all the documents organized.
03:01They're real good. Somebody had to talk and explain to all real fine.
03:07The process is real good.
03:08What time was that?
03:10I reached here, maybe 10 past 7 and finished right now. I don't know what time is now.
03:20Yeah, real fast.
03:27It's okay. I don't have a problem. This is the process for you to have the status legally
03:32to tune it out.
03:34It's a, it's a, the a hundred, no it's none.
03:37This is a real good. I have a better price, that's a good price.
03:46Less than two years, but I like Trinidad.
03:51Alright.
03:52Right?
03:52So if things get better, everybody's willing to stay together.
03:55Are you extension too much?
03:58The Migrant Registration Framework is a government program aimed at regularizing undocumented migrants
04:05in Trinidad and Tobago. It involves two phases. Phase one is an online phase and phase two, which involves in
04:13-person screening. During phase one, which is now closed, the Ministry of Homeland Security has reported receiving over 29,000
04:22applications. Appointments for phase two are being scheduled through April and May. Authorities are, however, warning that those migrants who
04:31fail to register can face deportation or other enforcement action.
04:36Overshu Tawari Rabnarain, TV6 News.
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