Interesting thought here:
Portugal is one of the few European countries that allows an immigrant worker in an irregular situation to apply for a visa with the national authorities and these are the cases that are clogging up the system.
All you need is an address, tax number and an employment contract to apply, regardless of whether you entered as a tourist, a situation that has led to an exponential increase in irregular applications.
The new agency inherited 350,000 pending cases in October, the last time the figures were released.
To try to resolve the situation, the now outgoing government promised to invest in modernizing the IT system, with a portal already open to requests for the granting and renewal of residence permits, one of the SEF’s problems, which was unable to respond to requests made. and presented several structural problems.