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### Viewing cable 08SANJOSE882, GOCR FEARS THAT LAX ECUADOR VISA POLICY IS FUELING

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08SANJOSE882 | 2008-11-12 22:10 | 2010-12-17 21:09 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy San Jose

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    VZCZCXYZ0000
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHSJ #0882/01 3172209
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 122209Z NOV 08
    FM AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0256
    INFO RUEHZA/WHA CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 1351
    RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL PRIORITY 0166
    RHEFHLC/HOMELAND SECURITY CENTER WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
    RHMFISS/US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
    RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0149
    RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SAN JOSE 000882

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CEN, WHA/AND, WHA/PPC, EAP/CM AND CA

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/12/2018
    TAGS: PREL PTER ASEC CVIS KCRM KFRD EC KTIP CS
    SUBJECT: GOCR FEARS THAT LAX ECUADOR VISA POLICY IS FUELING
    ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

    Classified By: DCM Peter M. Brennan for reason 1.4(d).

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    SUMMARY
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    ¶1. (C) "Ecuador is causing instability for all America" since
    it dropped its tourist visa requirements for all
    nationalities in June, according to Mario Zamora, head of the
    GOCR General Directorate of Immigration (DGI, Spanish
    acronym). GOCR Immigration officials that traveled to
    Ecuador in October reported that approximately 10,000 Chinese
    had entered Ecuador over the last four months. Zamora feared
    that these Chinese were heading for Costa Rica and for the
    United States and that many could fall victim to forced labor
    trafficking or human smuggling "coyotaje." Some had applied
    for Costa Rican permanent residency in Beijing and then asked
    that their notification be sent to them in Ecuador,
    suggesting the beginning of an organized fraud pattern.
    Zamora told us that flights from Ecuador through Costa Rica
    (a TACA Airlines hub for flights headed north) had become
    "very cosmopolitan," and he feared an influx of irregular
    migration of Eastern Europeans, Arabs, South Americans and
    Africans. END SUMMARY.

    ------------------------------------------
    CHINESE: INCREASED NUMBERS; POSSIBLE FRAUD
    ------------------------------------------

    ¶2. (C) The DGI became concerned recently when officials
    noticed a pattern among non-related Chinese "family
    reunification" residency petitions. Approximately 10 to 15
    cases surfaced, involving young males aged 17 to 20, in which
    the applicants filed petitions in Beijing to come to Costa
    Rica, but requested that status notifications be sent to
    Ecuador. Zamora admitted that it did not make sense for
    Chinese to await Costa Rican residency in Ecuador, and he
    offered as hypotheses that an organized fraud ring was
    smuggling or trafficking Chinese, or that such a ring was
    arranging valid residencies for Chinese but then using the
    documents for impostors waiting in Ecuador. Zamora,
    following a policy of "caution and prevention," dispatched
    two officials to Quito last month to reinforce training for
    GOCR consuls and to meet with Ecuadorian and Chinese
    officials. The DGI halted the above-mentioned residency
    cases; the applicants will have to reapply under tighter
    documentary requirements, including signatures of both
    parents on application forms, and GOCR consuls in Beijing and
    Quito will take a closer look at the underlying Chinese
    documents, such as birth certificates, for evidence of fraud.

    ¶3. (C) According to a DGI report provided to us, Ecuadorian
    Immigration Director Luis Ordonez Sanchez told the GOCR DGI
    that between June 20 and the October meeting, 10,748 Chinese
    had entered Ecuador and 4826 of those had departed,
    compared to 2007 statistics showing only 4776 Chinese entries
    and 4417 departures. Ordonez reported that even with those
    statistics, it was too early to determine the positive or
    negative effect that dropping the visa requirement had, even
    though officials were aware that many of the Chinese were
    looking to the U.S. as their final destination. Ordonez said
    that the measure was designed to increase tourism, investment
    and trade, as well as to "increase the free movement of
    people into and out of the country."

    ¶4. (C) According to the DGI report, in a separate meeting
    with Chinese Political Counselor in Ecuador Gu Jiafeng, Gu
    told DGI officials that the majority of Chinese who had
    entered since June 20 came from the poorest provinces, Fujian
    and Guadong, and the Chinese government was concerned that
    they would fall victim to trafficking and smuggling rings in
    Ecuador. Gu reportedly said that only a third had departed
    Ecuador "regularly" and that the rest stayed in Ecuador or
    sought to go illegally to Brazil, Colombia, Peru or to their
    most desired destination - the United States.

    -----------------------------------
    FLIGHTS FROM ECUADOR "COSMOPOLITAN"
    -----------------------------------

    ¶5. (C) Zamora noted that daily flights arriving to San Jose
    from Ecuador had recently become "very cosmopolitan" and were
    receiving more scrutiny. Before, these flights carried more

    "local" clientele but now included many South Americans and
    Eastern Europeans, among others. Zamora explained that San
    Jose is a hub for TACA Airlines' northbound flights. The DGI
    detected a pattern that these more "diverse" flights from
    Ecuador were generally transiting Costa Rica and headed to
    Guatemala or Belize - two countries with extremely porous
    Mexican borders - as their final destination.

    --------------------------------------------
    OTHER NATIONALITIES USING ECUADOR AS BRIDGE?
    --------------------------------------------

    ¶6. (C) According to Zamora, Ecuadorian Immigration officials
    told DGI officials that an unspecified number of Arabs were
    now arriving in Ecuador. Anecdotally, Zamora told us that he
    was concerned regarding Iraqis, Afghans and Iranians
    transiting Ecuador to Colombia via land, moving to an
    unspecified destination "north," who were caught and deported
    from Colombia. Ecuadorian Immigration told the DGI that the
    administration's decision to drop visa requirements came as a
    surprise to the Immigration department. GOCR consuls in
    Ecuador reported an increase in all types of visa
    applications since June 20.

    ¶7. (C) Lastly, Zamora expressed concern about a potential
    influx of African migration to the region. Whereas before
    Brazilian Immigration was an obstacle even though there were
    direct flights from Africa, now Africans could transit
    Brazil and land in Ecuador. From there, they could migrate
    over land.

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    COMMENT
    -------

    ¶8. (C) COMMENT: Zamora's efforts at "caution and prevention"
    are welcome and are in keeping with his efforts to enforce
    Costa Rican immigration law more vigorously and to work with
    regional counterparts (and us) more closely. We sense that
    his instincts are correct, and we appreciate his more
    "strategic" view of immigration throughout the region.
    Though Zamora told us that there had thus far been no
    indication that the emerging immigration patterns included
    terrorist activity, he remains attentive to U.S. concerns,
    and he continues to work closely with us on these issues. We
    would be interested in Embassy Quito's/ConGen Guayaquil's
    read of the Chinese immigration picture. Please advise. END
    COMMENT.
    CIANCHETTE .

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