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PRAGUE, July 22, 2024 - Our Consular Office will implement the new online visa application system starting July 22, 2024. This platform facilitates and expedites the tourist visa application process for all interested parties. The new system is available at https://evisacuba.cu/en/inicio , where applicants can complete the application process quickly and efficiently. Once the application is submitted, the processing time will be 3 business days.

The deputies of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power today unanimously approved the Migration Law, considered an essential norm for a more efficient management of the island's migration process.

Presenting the law before the legislative body, First Colonel Mario Méndez, head of the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Alien Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, stressed that the new legal instrument seeks to achieve an updated migration system that offers a response to the projections of the country's new economic and development model.

Cuba's Ministry of Public Health authorities today reported a drop in infant mortality figures so far this year.

This was made known on Tuesday during the debates of the Health and Sports Commission, which is in session as a prelude to the third ordinary period of the National Assembly of People's Power (parliament).

It was reported in the exchange that up to July 11, the number of deaths in children under one year of age was reduced by 82 cases, from 340 to 258.

The participants of the Seventh International Assembly (7IA) of the International League of People's Struggle (ILPS) approved the resolution entitled "Campaign to Lift the US Blockade and Remove Cuba from the US List of States Sponsoring Terrorism".
The 7IA assembly, which was held in Penang, Malaysia, was attended by 535 participants from 44 countries, representing the different member organizations, as well as guests, including the Cuban ambassador, Florentino Batista González.