Sending Goods to Relatives in Venezuela from the USA.

[NickD 203]

Anybody have any suggestions, food, baby needs, off the counter medications.   Institutions that will deliver your package to specified people.  We were using one, but they were banned by our government.  And can 100% guarantee were not going to their government, but to our grandsons so they won't starve to death.

 

We did petition for the entire family, but a long wait, they can only apply for asylum in the USA, but need passport with tourist visas to leave Venezuela.  Have the passports, but no US consulates to issue the visas.  We do not want to deal with the cartel.

[DylanandLaura 46]

On 9/15/2019 at 7:55 AM, NickD said:

Anybody have any suggestions, food, baby needs, off the counter medications.   Institutions that will deliver your package to specified people.  We were using one, but they were banned by our government.  And can 100% guarantee were not going to their government, but to our grandsons so they won't starve to death.

 

We did petition for the entire family, but a long wait, they can only apply for asylum in the USA, but need passport with tourist visas to leave Venezuela.  Have the passports, but no US consulates to issue the visas.  We do not want to deal with the cartel.

I have a friend in Medellin and he has a parent in Venezuela with diabetes and no access to insulin. The least costly way to get medicine, food and other necessities is to pay someone to physically transport the goods from Colombia. I don't know if this is considered smuggling, but it is really the only option based on the current political environment. He did tell me you can use FedEx or some other large carrier, but the cost, tariffs and likely hood to be confiscated are too great. 

 

Do you have any connections in Colombia?

[NickD 203]

Last dealing with FedEx was in 2007, brought a computer for our son in person.  When times were good that same computer costs 3 times as much down there as here, Chevaz needed that money for God knows what. 

 

Well it failed in six months, and cost him $60.00 equivalent to send it to us via FedEx, I did get it repaired under warranty, but to ship it back to him via FedEx wanted $480.00!!!  One of my wife's friends was traveling down there, she took it back for him. 

 

Besides FedEx outrageous prices, this was a 7 pound laptop, they are honoring President Trump's sanctions against Venezuela, no more shipments,  I have written to my senator, congressman, and the president regarding these sanctions, in no way are they affecting the dictators, never did, never will, but are sure hurting the common people.

 

Also looked into asylums, have to be in the US first, sure causing a lot of stress with two lovely grandsons.  If Obama was not elected, our son would have been here a long time ago.  Middle

East came first followed by Africa, anything for over 21 year old children was limited to 2,500 people per year from the Mexican border clear down to Peru.

 

16 years went by already, can't expect a young man to stay single, did get married, two children, petitioned for all of them, but not sure.  Do have connections in Colombia, but his wife does not want to leave her family.  Really can't blame her.

 

We just want to send food, my one daughter-in-law is a gynecologist was able to get all medical supplies for her, step-daughter-in-law required a C section, without this, she would be dead.  Now if this happened today, she would be dead, what a way to go!!!!

[onlytoshare 4]

Hola, no entiendo. Quieres mandar desde estados unidos o desde colombia? En estados unidos hay muchas empresas que transportan alimentos y comida a venezuela, si estás en florida NEXT DAY CARGO lo hace, son responsables y lo llevan hasta la casa de tu familiar. Espero te sirva.

[DylanandLaura 46]

11 hours ago, NickD said:

Last dealing with FedEx was in 2007, brought a computer for our son in person.  When times were good that same computer costs 3 times as much down there as here, Chevaz needed that money for God knows what. 

 

Well it failed in six months, and cost him $60.00 equivalent to send it to us via FedEx, I did get it repaired under warranty, but to ship it back to him via FedEx wanted $480.00!!!  One of my wife's friends was traveling down there, she took it back for him. 

 

Besides FedEx outrageous prices, this was a 7 pound laptop, they are honoring President Trump's sanctions against Venezuela, no more shipments,  I have written to my senator, congressman, and the president regarding these sanctions, in no way are they affecting the dictators, never did, never will, but are sure hurting the common people.

 

Also looked into asylums, have to be in the US first, sure causing a lot of stress with two lovely grandsons.  If Obama was not elected, our son would have been here a long time ago.  Middle

East came first followed by Africa, anything for over 21 year old children was limited to 2,500 people per year from the Mexican border clear down to Peru.

 

16 years went by already, can't expect a young man to stay single, did get married, two children, petitioned for all of them, but not sure.  Do have connections in Colombia, but his wife does not want to leave her family.  Really can't blame her.

 

We just want to send food, my one daughter-in-law is a gynecologist was able to get all medical supplies for her, step-daughter-in-law required a C section, without this, she would be dead.  Now if this happened today, she would be dead, what a way to go!!!!

I'm sorry to hear about this situation. I think your only option is to find someone in Colombia that can transport basic necessities into Venezuela. Direct shipping from the states to Venezuela is nearly impossible at the moment. There are many Venezuelans in Colombia that are in the same situation of wanting to send food or medicine to family members and they are successful by paying certain individuals to get the goods into Venezuela. I suggest talking to friends or connections in Colombia who can ask around for a person who travels back and forth to Venezuela. 

 

Asylum will be extremely hard to prove a legal basis even if they get to the US. The humanitarian crisis isn't being taken serious by the US government and countries such as Colombia have been taking more immigrants than they can handle. Sorry about the whole situation.

 

[NickD 203]

10 hours ago, onlytoshare said:

Hola, no entiendo. Quieres mandar desde estados unidos o desde colombia? En estados unidos hay muchas empresas que transportan alimentos y comida a venezuela, si estás en florida NEXT DAY CARGO lo hace, son responsables y lo llevan hasta la casa de tu familiar. Espero te sirva.

Google Translation:

"Hi, I do not understand. Do you want to send from the United States or from
 Colombia? In the United States there are many companies that transport food
 and food to Venezuela, if you are in Florida NEXT DAY CARGO does it,
 they are responsible and take it to your family member's home. I hope it
 helps you."

 

We were shipping to Miami, but since the sanctions started, no longer shipping, our government forced them to stop.  Yes, we have relatives in Colombia, but just about ready to start a war between Venezuela  and Colombia.  Inconsiderate Maduro using a nicer word is blocking that border.

 

As a Matter of fact, my wife's relatives in Colombia sent her money that we could use here to send goods to them because they couldn't do so.

 

In regards to asylum what difference does it make if you are being persecuted or simply lack food and medication you need to stay alive!!

 

Never in my long history did we ever have a worse congress, more interested in hurting Trump than people that really need help.

 

People in Venezuela do not have second amendment rights sticks and stones are no match against an AK-47 and we do have politicians that want to take our rights away.  Same in Iran, the people are suffering but care about my own family members.

 

Maduro has full support from the Russians, Chinese, and Cubans, he is not suffering!!!!  But our grandsons are.

[onlytoshare 4]

Are you venezuelan? do not speak spanish? this is a regional forum, you can speak spanish, anyway I am telling you there are many cargo companies sending goods and food to venezuela (there are a lot of people in this situation) and it is not illegal because they are using connection flights in other countries to do it , just research a little bit. You also can send them money through a reliable person who buy dollars and deposit them in bolivares. Just call to Next day cargo in miami or any cargo company you know. They send goods by air and ocean shipments.

 

Blessings

[Unlockable 7,315]

On 9/15/2019 at 8:55 AM, NickD said:

Anybody have any suggestions, food, baby needs, off the counter medications.   Institutions that will deliver your package to specified people.  We were using one, but they were banned by our government.  And can 100% guarantee were not going to their government, but to our grandsons so they won't starve to death.

 

We did petition for the entire family, but a long wait, they can only apply for asylum in the USA, but need passport with tourist visas to leave Venezuela.  Have the passports, but no US consulates to issue the visas.  We do not want to deal with the cartel.

 

22 hours ago, NickD said:

Last dealing with FedEx was in 2007, brought a computer for our son in person.  When times were good that same computer costs 3 times as much down there as here, Chevaz needed that money for God knows what. 

 

Well it failed in six months, and cost him $60.00 equivalent to send it to us via FedEx, I did get it repaired under warranty, but to ship it back to him via FedEx wanted $480.00!!!  One of my wife's friends was traveling down there, she took it back for him. 

 

Besides FedEx outrageous prices, this was a 7 pound laptop, they are honoring President Trump's sanctions against Venezuela, no more shipments,  I have written to my senator, congressman, and the president regarding these sanctions, in no way are they affecting the dictators, never did, never will, but are sure hurting the common people.

 

Also looked into asylums, have to be in the US first, sure causing a lot of stress with two lovely grandsons.  If Obama was not elected, our son would have been here a long time ago.  Middle

East came first followed by Africa, anything for over 21 year old children was limited to 2,500 people per year from the Mexican border clear down to Peru.

 

16 years went by already, can't expect a young man to stay single, did get married, two children, petitioned for all of them, but not sure.  Do have connections in Colombia, but his wife does not want to leave her family.  Really can't blame her.

 

We just want to send food, my one daughter-in-law is a gynecologist was able to get all medical supplies for her, step-daughter-in-law required a C section, without this, she would be dead.  Now if this happened today, she would be dead, what a way to go!!!!

It is not gonna be cheap. Sending things there could be done but with everything that is going on it will be difficult which results in higher costs. As mentioned, the absolute easiest and safest way is to find someone you can trust to fly the items down and personally deliver them.

 

Also, just for clarification, this is not a Trump initiative. The sanctions were going to happen regardless who was in office. This is a response to Venezuela's poor human rights issues that stem back almost a decade ago. Talks of sanctions were happening before trump even announced him running for presidency. Also, the US is not the only country sanctioning Venezuela. All of the European Union and even Mexico and Canad has sanctions against Venezuela.

[NickD 203]

Natural born US citizen, wife was born in Colombia and immigrated to Venezuela, then to here, a real sweet heart of a person.  Do not have a brain for languages, try me on complex engineering projects.

 

Not asking for charity, just a place where we can ship goods to our lovely little grandsons.  I did give my stepson a US credit card, but its worthless if there isn't anything on the shelves to buy.

 

Wife did put in her 25 years in Venezuela, eligible for their SS payments, assigned those over to her son, but not even enough to buy a full chicken that would have to last a month.  My heart goes out to people depending on their SS, this is terrible and criminal what they are doing to their people.

 

Since my wife is a naturalized citizen of Venezuela, they would not renew her passport, she is not allowed to enter.  If I went down like other US citizens, would end up in their prisons.  They are not very clean.

 

Seems like we have our hands tied whatever we try to do.