Government acknowledges serious immigration
issues
The Government has denounced the “degradation of the
migratory situation” in Portugal in recent months, both in the reception and
regularisation of foreigners, and in the operation of control and inspection
since the end of SEF.
By
TPN/Lusa, in News, Portugal · 17 hours ago ·
This
position, issued in a statement by the office of the Minister of the
Presidency, which oversees migration, follows a gathering this morning of
around 100 people, mainly citizens of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, at the
Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA), in Lisbon, to complain
about the delays in the granting of residence authorisation cards.
Minister
António Leitão Amaro states, quoted in the same statement, said that “this
evolution and assessment” carried out in the two weeks since this Government
took office, “confirms previous diagnoses regarding the incorrectness of
previous political and institutional options and their execution, particularly
regarding the process of ending the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) and
the implementation of AIMA”.
The
Government adds that, given the dismemberment of SEF by the previous socialist
executive, “hundreds of thousands of cases relating to migrant citizens are
pending decision and there are serious difficulties in the functioning of the
control, inspection, reception, and integration system”.
The
minister also states that he is monitoring the situation, and is in contact
with various authorities.
Today's
gathering in front of the AIMA headquarters began at around 10:30 am and a
representative of these citizens explained to journalists that the discontent
has mainly to do with the waiting time, which in some cases exceeds nine
months, to obtain the renewal of the residence permit.
According
to the Government's program, the executive admits limiting access to residence
permits to immigrants with work visas or those looking for work and introducing
"quantitative objectives" in the reception of foreigners.
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