A Cuban family has been on a journey for 10 months and has not yet reached the United States.

A Cuban family from Santiago de Cuba started their journey to the United States 10 months ago and is still stranded in Mexico waiting for an appointment through the CBP One app to cross the border.

A report by Martí Noticias states that the group is in Morelos, with no response from the US authorities to their request.

Víctor, the head of the family, tells that he left Cuba with his wife and their three children aged 14, 12, and 9 on September 9, 2023, and they have been stranded in Mexico for several months now.

Faced with the imperatives of daily life, he had to start working at a Central de Abasto, where "he doesn't earn much but it's enough to support his family," the report states.

The young man says he leaves for work at 4 am and returns at 5 pm. For security reasons, he himself does the shopping at his workplace or when he gets home. He says that even though the neighborhood is not dangerous, "you can never be too cautious."

Likewise, he explains that the tickets to reach the border are expensive and that the delayed journey has cost them thousands of dollars.

Several people have complained about the delays of CBP ONE, having had to wait up to eight months for an appointment.

In the context of the Cuban migration crisis, more than half a million people have fled the island in the last three years.

The Cuban population dropped by 18% between 2022 and 2023 to reach 8.62 million people, according to an independent demographic study ready for publication accessed by the EFE news agency.

The study, carried out by the Cuban economist and demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos, aims to quantify the consequences of the significant exodus that the country has been experiencing since 2021 and to address the resulting lack of official statistics regarding demographic changes.

The calculation was based on the figures of Cubans who have arrived in the United States between October 2021 and April 2024, totaling 738,680 people, according to official information released by American authorities that combines visas, paroles, and irregular arrivals.