AIMA Appointment --> Did anyone manage to schedule appointment after uploading the documents again

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That’s good news! Thanks for sharing

My lawyers advised for dependants / parents - The documents are not to be updated on the portal but directly brought to the appointment. Based on above comments, seems like they have wrong info?

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Hello and congratulations for those who got the biometric appointments. Do you know if the status on AIMA portal changed from " waiting analysis" to something else
Thanks a lot and appreciate your feedback

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Ctayah, my resubmission is in, but I have not gotten biometrics yet. My status on the AIMA portal has changed form “Awaiting Resubmision” to “Awaiting Analysis”.

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Thanks Andrew and good luck for your biometric

Can anyone who received biometric appointment tell me what is the status on AIMA portal. Is it still “waiting for analysis” or it changed

Thanks

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The status does not change when you are given a biometrics appointment. It will change once you attend your appointment and (under the new process) pay the GV fees at time of the biometrics appointment.

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does anyone know how long it will take after biometrics appointment (under the new process) to get the card in hand?
thanks

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Did u already get the appointment?

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but did you receive a message/email from aima telling you to update your documents and specifying which specific documents you needed to update or did you take it upon yourself to get new documents?? I have not received notice yet to update documents and which ones.

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It doesn’t name specific documents, just opens the application to update and you need to make sure that all the docs are up to date

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I received an email on 27 dec 2024 saying to update documents as per law and that the status of your application on AIMA portal should change from "waiting for analysis " to “pending documents submisson” which in fact means IAMA opened the portal for u to update your documents. You have i guess 6 months to update the documents, otherwise, they will consider you are not interested and drop your application .
In my case, when AIMA opened the portal for me, i closed it next day by mistake. So my lawyer was sending emails on daily basis to AIMA to open the portal but AIMA never did. So after 2 months, i asked my lawyer to go to one of AIMA offices called "loja do cidadao, based on another lawyer recommendation, and she was able to open the portal for me on same day. I paid some fee since the lawyer had to wait maybe half a day. And the. was able to submit documents again on AIMA portal

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I don’t know, I used IAS (doing the investment through Mercan hotel chain) and they were successful.

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We applied August 22 and haven’t heard from AIMA about uploading docs. Guess they aren’t going in order?

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No, anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that they are going in order of date of initial application, not resubmission. So, someone who applied in July 2022, and resubmitted their documents in March of 2025, would be before you.

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Have you already uploaded all of your documents again? :slight_smile:

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A ‘few’ months apparently 


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If you are waiting for AIMA to email you and invite you to upload refreshed documents, and your lawyer has indeed verified that the website does not allow you to submit these, then shouldn’t your lawyer be flagging this to AIMA?

No matter how you look at it, August 2022 applicants should be in the “first batch.” Someone who originally applied after you (early 2023 I recall—you can search) has already gotten scheduled for biometrics appointment for June 2025, after refreshing documents.

If your lawsuit prevented you from being able to upload refreshed files, wouldn’t your lawyer rather know for sure?

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We are September 2022 applicant (main investsor) with February 2025 refreshed documents and we have not been given an appointment. Yet others who are applicants after us have. So for us it seems like no rhyme or reason on how the latest appointments have been issued.

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I agree there is no pattern. I submitted the my application and dependent application in Jan 2023. Submitted refreshed doc ends (Just for main investor and dependent doc not allowed to submit) of Jan and still nothing.

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There are several posts in the thread from people who have by now received appointments in June / later; Perhaps there are others who have received appointments who have not posted in the thread.
May I request those who have received appointments to please let us know with the following details: In their earlier posts some of these details may not be there

Date of Initial application submission
Date updated documents submission
Date biometrics appointment received
Location and date of biometrics appointment
Whether lawsuit filed for biometrics (Y/N)
With these details perhaps we can discern a pattern which AIMA is following, (if there is one)

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One would expect a certain degree of randomness, once you’ve checked the box on two dimensions:

  1. if your original application date is prior to a certain date (whether it’s June 2023, Dec 2023, June 2024, who knows), then you are in the “first batch” of OLD applications to be cleared, and hence were asked/allowed to resubmit files;
  2. if you submitted refreshed documents in a reasonably timely manner, I.e. by the time the first batch of AIMA employees started reviewing (whether they use FIFO or LIFO, or are completely random, who knows).

Think of this as a large two-dimensional rectangle based on 1) original application date, and 2) the date refreshed documents were submitted; each one of us is a dot. The big rectangle can be sliced into many smaller rectangles. One can search for fairness/justice/method to the whole madness, and argue one’s own little rectangle should have priority over other little rectangles. But it could just all be random within the big rectangle.

I’m a November 2022 applicant who submitted refreshed documents at the end of February 2025. At this point, I just care about AIMA’s throughput statistics:

Out of all applicants who were ALLOWED to submit refreshed documents and did so in a timely fashion (say by March 31, 2025),
A) What % are given biometrics appointments by June 30, 2025?
B) A total of how many cards are issued by June 30, 2025? I.e. how much of the backlog is actually cleared by this date?

If the numbers are low, then AIMA is just F’ing with us, and might very well come back to ask for another refresh. Then they deserve another 20k lawsuits.

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