Venezue­lan na­tion­als seek­ing em­ploy­ment in this coun­try af­ter reg­is­ter­ing in the gov­ern­ment's amnesty, are be­ing catered for by some com­pa­nies, with bilin­gual ap­pli­ca­tion forms.

Among those com­pa­nies is Pres­tige Hold­ings, which has now adapt­ed its forms with Span­ish trans­la­tions to en­sure that the Venezue­lan na­tion­als could un­der­stand.

Pres­tige Hold­ings is the par­ent com­pa­ny of Sub­way, KFC, Piz­za Hut, TGI Fri­days and Star­bucks.

The reg­is­tra­tion process runs from May 31 to June 14.

It gives Venezue­lan na­tion­als who have come to Trinidad and To­ba­go, whether legal­ly or il­le­gal­ly, the op­por­tu­ni­ty to work for a pe­ri­od of one year.

Thou­sands of Venezue­lans have turned up dai­ly to the three reg­is­tra­tion venues - Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, Achie­vors Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do and Car­o­line Build­ing in Scar­bor­ough - since the start of the reg­is­tra­tion.

The eco­nom­ic cri­sis that has en­gulfed Venezuela un­der Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro set off an ex­o­dus, with thou­sands com­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The eco­nom­ic dam­age is among the worst in Latin Amer­i­can his­to­ry, re­searchers say, with more than three mil­lion peo­ple leav­ing the coun­try in re­cent years.

They are flee­ing short­ages of food, wa­ter, elec­tric­i­ty and med­i­cine, as well as the gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal crack­downs.