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Hun­dreds of mi­grants, in­clud­ing moth­ers with young chil­dren, lined up un­der tents out­side the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, en­dur­ing in­tense heat as they wait­ed to be processed.

Among them was Shawn Ram­sa­hai, who ar­rived with his Guyanese com­mon-law wife to reg­is­ter. He said the lines were mov­ing slow­ly and peo­ple were spend­ing long pe­ri­ods in­side.

A Niger­ian mi­grant said he was un­able to ac­cess some re­quired doc­u­ments, in­clud­ing a Po­lice Cer­tifi­cate of Char­ac­ter.