omg, what a car crash 
- the new body began operations in October 2023 with just 714 employees - 41% of the contingent from the former institution that would (on paper) have been available.
- "There are several mobility requests, estimated to represent the departure of 100 workers."
- AIMA points to the existence of at least 459,384 processes in progress as of October 29, 2023, the majority (344,619) of legalization through expressions of interest (for immigrants who are already in Portugal, without the need for legal entry into the territory).
- lack of a database that indicates the status of each process. So far, it has been possible to inventory the processes from 2022 and 2023, totaling 508", refers to the document cited by Expresso, which says that these numbers are defective. “There are no applications for golden visas, residence permits for students or those carried out as part of family reunification, for example”, he adds.
- AIMA also recognizes that “it is not possible to identify in a simple and reliable way the number of pending cases” with the information contained in the databases.
- AIMA speaks of the “obsolescence of technological infrastructure” which required “significant corrective and maintenance interventions to ensure responsiveness and minimum cybersecurity and information security standards”.
In related news…
- On Monday (June 3rd) the Government’s plan for migration will be announced. …The official presentation is scheduled for 4pm and DN knows that immigrant associations and other entities linked to the sector have already been invited. The plan was drawn up in recent weeks after representatives of all parties with parliamentary seats, associations, experts and the Agency for Migration, Integration and Asylum (AIMA) were consulted.
- Some of the details of the plan were outlined in the interview given by [the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro], which will be published this Saturday in DN.