AIMA charging €400 to speed up residency applications, under penalty of forfeiture!

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AIMA takes over SEF

New level of AIMA madness, first spotted by @pichki.k here. Skimming through one of the original sources (Notícias ao Minuto), people are rightly thinking it might be an internet scam, but seems real. Left Bloc summons AIMA to the AR. "It is failing", 9-May 2024 At issue is a news item reported today by Antena 1 which reports that immigrants with regularization processes pending at AIMA are receiving messages indicating that from now on it will be mandatory to pay fees before being served at…