Protest at AIMA Lisbon on 18-April (discussed here) got the following response:
Government acknowledges serious immigration issues - The Portugal News, 19-April 2024
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”.
There was also an article in TPN on this a few days ago…
Government to assess end of SEF and AIMA situation - The Portugal News, 11-April 2024
The government will “promote a rigorous assessment of the extinction of SEF and its integration into other services, namely, to identify and correct legal non-conformities, operational failures and areas of conflict of competences”, states the program of the XXIV Constitutional Government delivered today to the Assembly of the Republic.The Government also proposes to “evaluate the restructuring of the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA), in order to correct legal, operational and conflict of competence flaws”.