US Asylum App Expanded to Guatemala Border
Story by Shamim Chowdhury • 20h
The moment Venezuelan migrant Yuri Carolina Melendez stepped onto Mexican soil, earlier this week, she downloaded a crucial app she would need to book an appointment for her U.S. asylum application.
The CBP One app has been in use for a while, but is now available to migrants in Mexico's southernmost states, bordering Guatemala.
It means Melendez, and others like her, can book their applications as soon as they enter Mexico, rather than wait until they reach the central or northern parts of the country, which had previously been the case.
But Melendez remained skeptical: "I have to wait to see if it really works," she said as she rested under a tree along a highway near the city of Tapachula with her two daughters, aged 16 and 18, The Associated Press reported.
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