{"id":172646,"date":"2025-08-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/youth-on-the-run-the-ghost-of-exile-pushes-thousands-to-apostille-their-documents-in-nicaragua\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:42:14","slug":"youth-on-the-run-the-ghost-of-exile-pushes-thousands-to-apostille-their-documents-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/youth-on-the-run-the-ghost-of-exile-pushes-thousands-to-apostille-their-documents-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth on the Run: the ‘Ghost’ of Exile Pushes Thousands to Apostille Their Documents in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a city in southern Nicaragua, near one of the busiest places marked by the 2018 protests, lives Pablo<\/em>, a young veterinarian who graduated from university not long ago. Next to his bed, he has a suitcase with clothes that he packs and unpacks every two months and, on top of the luggage, a backpack where he keeps all his updated and apostilled documents. \u201cIn case it\u2019s my turn,\u201d he tells himself now and then, as he looks at them. <\/p>\n\n

Pablo<\/em> has refused to leave the country. Although he was never involved in the protests, he knows that for going to take a look at the marches, for pulling out his Nicaraguan flag, and because of his Sandinista neighbors, he is \u201cmarked.\u201d But the possibility of leaving accompanies him every day. \u201cYou never know; I think we all have to be ready to look for other paths,\u201d he reflects with resignation. <\/p>\n\n

This young man hasn\u2019t found steady work and makes house calls to care for some pets at clients\u2019 homes or at his parents\u2019 house, and he covers a few days at a veterinary clinic. That\u2019s why he admits that the lack of money is \u201canother big reason\u201d he knows his turn might come to leave. <\/p>\n\n

At the start of 2025, Pablo<\/em> decided to authenticate his transcripts, diplomas, and his Veterinary degree at Nicaragua\u2019s Foreign Ministry in Managua. He remembers it was a \u201cheadache\u201d and that he had to travel there three times, because the lines were huge and people arrived before dawn. <\/p>\n\n

The first time he went, he didn\u2019t know he had to get up early, and around ten in the morning, when he approached, he realized the line was \u201cimmense,\u201d and he didn\u2019t even try to get in it. The second time he arrived at seven in the morning and, although he stood in line, he didn\u2019t manage to get an attention slot. The third time he did, because he practically went the night before to wait outside the place. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cI was afraid to be on the street all night, but I realized, from people\u2019s comments, that that\u2019s what you had to do to get it done. That, or buy a slot in line that some were reselling at high prices,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n

The lines are over, but demand hasn\u2019t stopped<\/h2>\n\n

Diplomas, transcripts, police records, birth certificates, and marital-status certificates are some of the documents most often requested for apostille at the Foreign Ministry. The process is free of charge. <\/p>\n\n

An apostille is a certification of the authenticity of a document that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs validates so it will be recognized abroad.<\/p>\n\n

For academic documents, people must first certify them with the corresponding institution. In the case of high-school graduates, they must go to the Ministry of Education, while university degrees must first be authenticated by the National Council of Universities (now the National Council of Rectors). <\/p>\n\n

After months in which hundreds of Nicaraguans got up before dawn and filled all available slots, on April 14, 2025, the Government decided to implement a new appointment system with online bookings through the website www.citas.cancilleria.gob.ni<\/a>, offering continuous service from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., according to official media. However, as of August 15, 2025, the page had been offline for a couple of months.<\/p>\n\n

Even though the social-media images showing hundreds of people lining up to apostille documents have ceased, the demand has not stopped. It\u2019s a reality that reflects a silent exodus in Nicaragua. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cDemand is constant, and it\u2019s a reflection that many want to leave or at least have their documents ready in case they have to leave Nicaragua,\u201d confides Ismael<\/em>, a Foreign Ministry employee who asked that his identity be protected.<\/p>\n\n

Isamel<\/em> admits that the system crashes constantly and that on many days lines remain because \u201cnot everyone knows about the online system.\u201d However, he denies there are obstacles to apostilling documents, though he likewise admits it is \u201ca bureaucratic process.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe Government is interested in (Nicaraguans) leaving, because they know that those people abroad will, in the future, have the possibility of sending remittances,\u201d says Ismael<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

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Nicaraguans line up to obtain a \u201cslot\u201d in order to apostille their documents at the Foreign Ministry in Managua, in February 2025. \/\/ Photo | Taken from Radio La Primer\u00edsima <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\u201cMy future is not in Nicaragua\u201d<\/h2>\n\n

\u201cI never imagined living alone in another country,\u201d says Roxana<\/em> bluntly, a 22-year-old university student who was studying Psychology at the Central American University (UCA), confiscated and closed by the dictatorship in August 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

But this young woman, who now lives in El Salvador, admits that exile \u201cwas like a ghost that always haunted her.\u201d First, because in 2022 she lost her scholarship when the regime excluded UCA from the university budget allocation<\/a>. Then, because she saw many relatives, friends, and people she knew from her neighborhood in Granada leave. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cMy family was Sandinista all our lives, but most stopped being so when they saw how the dictatorship massacred the people who took to the streets to protest in 2018, and many of us had to leave the country,\u201d she recounts.<\/p>\n\n

Roxana<\/em> apostilled her high-school diploma three months after her university closed on the advice of some family friends. \u201cI knew what I had would at least serve as support for my studies,\u201d she explains. <\/p>\n\n

She decided to study the same major and start from zero. \u201cI had barely started the degree, and let\u2019s say I was lucky to lose only one year,\u201d she says. She comments that it has been a hard process, but says she prefers to have a degree that \u201cis worth something\u201d and not one \u201cfrom a university that only indoctrinates students to flatter a tyranny.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s sad, but for now my future is not in Nicaragua. I also don\u2019t know where I\u2019ll live, because I don\u2019t think I want to stay here (in El Salvador) forever, but for now that\u2019s what I have to do,\u201d she notes.<\/p>\n\n

Ready to travel \u201cat any moment\u201d<\/h2>\n\n

The \u201cghost\u201d of exile is also something that haunts Manuel\u2019s<\/em> life, a young man who graduated in Business Administration from a private university. Not long ago he decided to apostille his diploma, his birth certificate, and other academic documents. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cI did it at my parents\u2019 insistence,\u201d he confesses. He says migrating to Spain is something that \u201ckeeps resonating in my head,\u201d which is why he has looked for scholarship options to study for a master\u2019s degree. <\/p>\n\n

For now, Manuel <\/em>works at a call center<\/em><\/a>, because he hasn\u2019t found a job in his field. \u201cThat\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s also something that allows me to be ready to travel at any moment,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cI think all Nicaraguans, especially young people, must be ready to look for another path because the country is increasingly isolated and opportunities are scarcer,\u201d says this young man from a city in central Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n

An \u201calarming\u201d brain drain<\/h2>\n\n

It\u2019s unknown how many professionals and students have apostilled their documents, because the regime does not make that information transparent. Nor is it known how many of them have left the country. For Nicaraguan academic and former rector of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Le\u00f3n) and the American University (UAM), Ernesto Medina, it is \u201calarming\u201d that the majority of those seeking passports and apostilling documentation are young. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost certain that the reason for the apostille is to leave the country,\u201d he points out. For the academic, it means \u201ca greater hemorrhaging of Nicaragua\u2019s most important resource, which is its youth, and above all its educated youth.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Medina notes that many students stayed in the country, after the repression and the expulsion of hundreds of students, \u201cto see what would happen in the universities,\u201d and they have realized that most of them today in Nicaragua \u201care a scam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cYoung people see that (in the universities) they have only political authorities who are there to carry out the orders of a government that wants only one thing, which is consolidation in power,\u201d warns the former rector. <\/p>\n\n

Medina insists that the \u201cbrain drain of young people in training\u201d is going to have a \u201cvery serious\u201d consequence in Nicaragua. First, because those who are leaving probably won\u2019t return, and many more will continue to leave. And second, because the training of professionals \u201cis deteriorating every day\u201d in Nicaragua. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cSeeing that bleak panorama, with educational institutions that don\u2019t win over young people, we\u2019ll see more become part of that army that believes it has to leave the country to seek alternatives to be study with dignity and quality,\u201d said Medina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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