mmm 300 more people who dont want to help, using an IT system that doesnt work
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Circus show never stops going in Portugal. If I have to advise someone for GV, I would tell him either not investing in GV at all or waiting 4 years for first card. I do not consider any promise from any politician as a positive thing.
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4 years?? Dude! That is height of optimism…we need to be realistic. Already 2 years have passed since I invested my hard earned money in this ponzi visa scheme and even the pre-approval eludes. These snippets of information are nothing more than a mirage.
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If the task force does a good job clearing the backlog in a year, the task force will be dissolved and these 300 people will lose their jobs. I don’t see how this arrangement creates good incentives for them to work hard.
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If task force is formed to solve a specified task, those 300 people will have a special contract and they will get their payment per task. It is not a regular contract for them to work in govt offices until 65 years old. When the task is completed, no more payment will be given. In the contract, there are surely some conditions to get full payment in the end. Without performing well, they might not only get bad feedback (and lose chance to have a similar contract with govt in the future) but also not get paid fully by the govt.
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Color me cynical: it will take 6+ months to hire & train them all.
Meaning on average (a gross average to be sure), 6 months of meaningful work out of any one person. Add to that the latency in getting the 1st hires on-board & trained. Meaning, the pace (such as it is) of approvals will go even slower in the short term.
Plus, of the 300, only 100 are the ‘Experts’ - is a bottle neck being defined?
Given a metric’s based view on this (KPIs for you business process improvement nerds), I would expect the focus (once new hires are trained) to be on cleaning out the dead wood 1st. Makes the numbers look good without actually doing anything. Then the hard work would start - and the contract expire.
Classic mythical man-month solution. Hire more people and wonder why it takes longer.
Did I mention I’m cynical?
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I tend to agree on your “it will take 6+ months to hire & train them all” point.
But as for only 100 of the 300 being ‘Experts’ - I expect there’s a lot of grunt work that doesn’t require much expertise. Like ‘Are all the required documents attached?’, ‘Do the names/IDs all match up?’ and ‘Have any of the supporting docs expired and we need new ones?’
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I think 1 week of training is already too much.
What skills does one need to do this kind of job?
Honestly, it is one of the easiest job ever. One needs to check names that match up. Criminal records have stamps from embassies. Entered Portugal legally (visa, stamp on passport on date of arrival),…
It is all about following the checklist and tick the boxes.
It is surely easier than be a good cook in a restaurant. 
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intersting.
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At the end of June there were between 35,000 and 40,000 pending cases, which will be distributed “randomly among all the judges on shift for the purpose,”
mmm losing all chronological processing of applications, just as soon as my application dates were likely to come up…
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And if I am presuming correctly, u and I are both recipients of unfavorable outcomes of our previous trysts with administrative courts of lisbon.
channeling Douglas Adams - “Like +2 for good intentions but -1000 for implementation”
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From bad…
…“How can I get an appointment at AIMA? The only way is through a lawsuit”. These are some of the advertisements that abound on social media, especially on Instagram, published by lawyers.
…Figures obtained by DN show that more than 3,600 administrative cases were pending last month.
…AIMA employees, on condition of anonymity, admitted to DN that “they spend their days reading rulings and responding to lawsuits.” The work is often carried out by cultural mediators, who have been assigned to these roles that currently “predominate” the agency.
…AIMA denies that it is only possible to obtain an appointment through legal means. “The actions that are under way in court essentially concern residence permits for investment and expressions of interest
…to worse!
With a list of 25 demands, workers at the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) will go on strike from August 22 to December 31 of this year… The strike is aimed at all overtime work on mandatory or supplementary weekly rest days and on public holidays, in addition to overtime. Some employees have already worked more than 150 hours of overtime “without being paid” on time.
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Timely response of public services is the state’s obligation, however, assisting legal action by lawyers has become a common practice and business.
How ironic.
I take this as anecdotal confirmation that pre-approvals have indeed stopped unless required by a winning lawsuit. Not so much as a matter of official policy, but as a matter of resources.
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I’m more positive on the strike. Essentially the workers are being screwed over by the state and not getting the resources they need. Maybe this leads to heads rolling and fixes
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I have a bridge to sell you.
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All of us here have bought that bridge, to be fair…
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Workers being screwed? Are you serious? It is the workers who are screwing others.
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It sounds like they aren’t being paid on time
Think of it this way. We have little agency or political representation. Those workers do.
Aside from perhaps the union rent seeking about the temp workers, them agitating for the restructuring, resources, etc that they need is the closest thing we have to a politically relevant group fighting for improvements