I’m planning to go to PT to sign a contract with law firm to sue AIMA, right now working on the Visa. Not mention the GV approval, even sue them, half year or more to stand in the line.
Why go to PT? Law firms will happily sign the contract online.
Anecdotally I can attest that processes at AIMA are improving and they are adding resources and at least attempting to respond to concerns on an individual level.
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The Ari.sef.pt page is “under maintenance “ today. Is that a good sign??
Works for me just fine… that is - no change.
It was down for about an hour or so. It would redirect to an AIMA webpage that said the site was under maintenance!
I was expecting a miracle and a flood of approvals when it came back online, but alas, it is the same old same old “ under analysis “ again! 
At least you had an hour of encouragement!.. 
What does AIMA mean when it claims to clear 250000 processes in one year? It is like 65% of backlog addressed over last 2-3 months but then it does not feel like it. Is it like answering phone calls accounts to clearing backlog or face to face assistance constitutes clearing backlog or an issue of residence permit/ rejection of application accounts for clearing of backlog.
We can safely assume very few of these were ARI.
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Some folks figure lots of that “clearing/regularising” was AIMA just blowing away abandoned (voluntarily or not!) applications.
“You have 3 seconds to respond to this message… ah, soz, too late, you dead” 
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Dependents or primary applicants or both?
Ill guess 2600 successful lawsuits…
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Sounds like the 2600 include dependents on top of primary applicants. Assuming 1 primary applicant has an average of 3 dependents (spouse + 2 children), AIMA really just processed about 600 to 700 primary applicants. since Nov 2023.
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Translation: Make of it what you may!!
When talking about AIMA, we only talk about liabilities, inheritance, ineffectiveness, but it is much more than that. The big challenge is to gain an identity and this is far from being achieved. In this first year, we carried out 250 thousand definitive acts, among 152 thousand residence permits issued, 57 thousand CPLP authorizations, 6700 requests for temporary protection, 26,205 thousand family reunifications, 2600 ARIS [Residence Authorization for Investment or golden visa]. I’m not obsessed with numbers, but metrics are important, because the intolerance and demands that exist
in relation to this institution there are no other public bodies.
So basically similar rate. In 2023, 1 year, 2901 GVs approved, of which 1554 were family reunification. So 1347 primary applicants.
https://aima.gov.pt/media/pages/documents/92dd0f02ea-1726562672/rma-2023.pdf (see page 11)
And now you’re saying in the 11-12 months since Nov 2023, another 2600 approved. Basically the same rate as before.
And whose responsibility it is to ensure that it is well resourced and enabled to meet the demand?
I am just not able to digest those numbers…not that it matters to AIMA or anyone else.
this has to be one of the stupidest messages by the AIMA… you’re processing stuff at the same speed as the SEF after all the shit show!
Atleast double your speed!!
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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.
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That’s quite promising for the overall backlog eventually being dealt with. But I still think they need to assign more people to process ARIs, if not there’s still a risk of those dragging on.
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