The hope of thousands of migrants who have been receiving admission to process their regularization application is now going through a few moments of concern, because they have not yet received the Social Security number that makes it possible to sign a formal work contract. There are thousands of pending files that lawyers already accumulate without having received more communications. Every morning, Katerine, Adonai or Joel’s first task is to check the mailbox. “And nothing,” laughs Cuban Katerine Aguilar on the phone, waiting for the number that will allow her to place herself in a pizzeria in her town in Barcelona, Vilanova i la Geltrú. Meanwhile, they continue to do what they can, cleaning, construction: “We are defending ourselves with what appears,” he says optimistically.
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