New interview with the Minister of the Presidency (António Leitão Amaro) out today.
Before this interview devolves into speculating whether “immigration = security threat,” they discuss AIMA progress to date…
- increased its service capacity sixfold. The State used to serve 800 immigrants or people who sought AIMA per day. At the moment, the State is serving 5,000 per day. What does this result in? The mission structure has already served 113,000 people, who are currently undergoing regularization processes.
- At the same time, we are already moving forward with the notification for the rejection of 108,000
- According to these calculations, 180,000 immigrants still need to be regularized. How many months will it take for this number to be normalized? We have created a mission structure with a duration of one year, to increase the State’s response capacity. We are maintaining the time horizons we had, trying to do this within a year, that is, next summer.
- since the law was changed and the expression of interest ended, does the Government know how many applications have been received? I know that there has been an 80% reduction in applications for residence permits.