Immigration and customs controls will increase at the border crossing between Paraguay and Argentina
The Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) reported this Thursday that more immigration and customs control booths will be set up on the San Roque González de Santa Cruz international bridge, in order to expedite the passage frontier.
These new control units will work at the border crossing between the cities of Encarnación (Paraguay) and Posadas (Argentina), starting on January 2, 2023, with extended hours from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
The measure was coordinated in an inter-institutional meeting between the administrators of the integrated control area of both countries, following up on the situation of delays that occurs in the aforementioned international bridge.
According to the official report of the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry, between 2021 and 2022 the number of people who circulated on the bridge increased by 156%. And on these festive dates there is an exponential increase, with 30,000 people registering daily who use the border crossing.
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