Given that government actors created the hate for their own political purposes AFTER having bilked ARI investors out of many many millions of euros in taxes and fees, I absolutely think theyāre profoundly wrong to continue to use the antipathy they themselves wrongly created as an excuse for denying us the benefits that were promised. Bad faith rising to a criminal level, IMO.
The āgovernmentā should be out there publicly correcting the record and mitigating the harm it has caused us. Not causing more harm.
If you expect the government (which is not the same government as the previous one which used investors as a scapegoat) to fight public opinion for basically no reason and risk screwing up their other priorities, I donāt know what to tell you
Iāve been trying to provide some explanation for what weāre seeing when it comes to the focus on the bulk of the immigrant cases.
Iām sorry, I didnāt intend this as a personal attack on you. My point is that we shouldnāt excuse what is bad and culpable behavior by a government that set the terms of our investments and has very clearly benefitted from them without living up to their end of the bargain.
This has become the trend with every successive dispensation in every country. Politicians playing to the gallery and trying to one up their opponents. The new Portuguese government has not been any better than Costaās in resolving my plight. Heck, Costa even made inroads to the EU. What luck!!
In my opinion, governance should be the first job to be replaced by AI. And my bitching will continue till it takes the form of a curse and bring down those in power in Portugal.
Costa was responsible for the slander that blamed the handful of GVers for the increase in the entire 10-million-person nation of Portugalās real estate prices.
Among all of us evil, entitled immigrants destroying Portuguese society from our many deviant cultures of origin, there must be someone with a highly effective curse for these monstersā¦
For those of you wanting to blame Portugalās issues such as housing shortages on immigrants and refugees, shame, shame, shame on you. You do not deserve to live in a country you talk this way about.
Ah, the report that the Deputy Secretary of State for the Presidency (Rui Freitas) mentioned in his DN interview of the 14thā¦ cheers for that
With help from ChatGPT, hereās all āweā could find in the report related to GVs/immigration by investment:
In 2023, 2,901 Residence Permits for Investment Activities were granted under Article 90-A of Law 23/2007, as amended.
Of the total Residence Permits granted, 1,554 were related to family reunification rights, as provided in Article 98 of the same law.
The United States of America, China, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India stand out as the main nationalities to whom Residence Permits for Investment Activities were granted in 2023, under Article 90-A of Law 23/2007. A total of 567 Residence Permits were granted to United States citizens, 306 to Chinese citizens, 234 to United Kingdom citizens, 219 to Brazilian citizens, and 199 to Indian citizens.
If anyone finds anything else/different, please post.
PS. a reminder that this is only last yearās data, despite 2024 being more than 70% over and AIMAās still not sure whatās happening this year
the SEF report on the number of foreigners in Portugal. It has not been published yet, but it will beā¦ - It will be in the next few daysā¦ but we are talking about data from 2023 that do not account for the 400,000 pending cases, because in relation to those, which we inherited from the previous Government, there is no information, no statistics on what we have there.
What I can see clearly is that 2901 ARI permits were issued in 2023 and among them 1554 are family members. Therefore, the ARI permits of the main applicants in 2023 is roughly 1400. It means that the resources from AIMA for ARI is no less than other past years. Looking at the statistic from SEFās site, each year there are about 1200-1400 ARI applications. The question is how AIMA can put more resources to keep up the pace of card renewals. I hope they give up putting more resources and instead of that, they keep opening the automatic renewals. Staffs only focus on the new applications and the pending ones. If the applications were already approved, then automatic renew will keep the rest in order. Maybe it is the only possible, reasonable, and fair solution for the ARI investors.
At this point, I donāt even know if using the word resource(s) plural is even valid. I think itās just 1 person doing all the GV applications. 1400 applications processed in a year is roughly 4-5 cases a day. Thatās actually not a lot and can be done by a single person if the process is reasonable.
If AIMAās computer systems are still as flaky as reported earlier this year - and intentionally broken apart due to the SEF breakup - that certainly wonāt help productivity. Hiring 350 more temps to sit in front of āerrorā screens doesnāt move the needle much either.
Hopefully they are fixing the ātoolsā side as much as the āresourcesā side.
āOf the 41 measures, half have been fully implemented and three of them are subject to parliamentary deliberationā
ā¦he argued, adding that of the 400,000 requests that were pending, the majority have already been regularized, partly thanks to the center for the regularization of processes in Lisbon and two others that will be opened in Braga and Porto in the future.
Of course GVs are āthe minority,ā but is he seriously claiming that most of the 400k backlog has been dealt with? This from an agency that struggles to provide stats for the current year?
I think they might be referring to those who failed to pay the EUR 100 to indicate their continued interest in the application they submitted to SEF/AIMA. Of course, failing that, AIMA will close the application/case and mark those as ācompleteā or āregularizedā.
It is plausible that majority (say about 50%) of those 400k pending applications have been abandoned or whose submitters failed to pay the additional fee by the deadline. This could cut down significantly the pending applications to be reviewed/processed.
