The VI edition of the Forum, was held in Virtual Format, on 27 - 29 May 2020.  It was very well attended by 144 representatives from 27 countries from Latin American, the Caribbean and Europe (Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay and Venezuela), including associates and collaborating members.

The suspension in the United States of important segments of economic activity in the months of March and April of this year, generated a severe contraction in employment levels in that country, which was reflected in a sharp decline in the employment of Mexican immigrant workers, both male and female. However, the partial reactivation in May of certain economic activities in some localities and states of that country led to an incipient improvement in employment of Mexican immigrant workers.

CEMLA has joined the Remittance Community Task Force (RCTF), an initiative of the Financial Facility for Remittances of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (FFR-IFAD). This initiative began to operate on March 24th, 2020, and 38 institutions have joined it, including international and intergovernmental organizations, public and private sector institutions, Remittance Service Providers (RSP), migrant networks, and specialists on the remittances topic.

In April 2020, Mexico's income from remittances was 2,861 million dollars, which implied a slight annual fall of 2.6%. In addition, the number of remittances was reduced by 4.7%. Thus, while, in April 2019, the average number of remittances received was 304,008 transfers per day, in April 2020, that number decreased to 289,661 daily remittances.