In 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued 41,000 family reunification visas. The woman is the one who emigrates first and it takes an average of six years to bring her family, almost always her children.
Minors are usually left in the care of their maternal grandmothers in the country of origin. The process is so long that the children that the women left behind as babies or very young children arrive home as teenagers. In their rooms, families are able to put words for the first time to what it has meant to live together again and feel like a nucleus again.