This would indicate that AIMA has processed over half of the total 400k+ backlog.
Are we close to half of the ARI backlog being processed? From the anecdotal reports on this form, looks like we haven’t hit 5%, and that’s counting those who only obtained progress due to lawsuits.
I think from what I understood from RTP Telejornal’s news report on the subject is that those 108k applications rejected were due to failure to pay the additional fees, meaning the applicants failed to express their continued interest in their applications (similar to an abandoned application). It’s a crafty way to clear the backlog, I think.
I think politically, and from an increasing “rich foreigners are driving up housing costs” public sentiment that even I’ve noticed on Madeira in the past couple years… ARIs will be the last thing AIMA gets to. Is why we sued.
Kinda seems like lawsuits are the only ARI applications get processed these days.
And that depends on when the lawsuit is filed.
Filings 6 months ago have not been processed, and yet cases filed in October have resulted in AIMA appointments.
Jerk you around, then jerk you around a bit more!
Portugal News reported something similar, yes. Of course if you’ve given up on waiting for PT, then you wouldn’t bother paying more fees either!
The 108,000 rejected cases, he said, are essentially related to non-payments, and it is not a final figure because there may still be cases in which people, receiving the notification, will be able to pay.
Can we even trust AIMA figures? Atleast there doesnt seem to be any progress on ARI pre-approvals without lawsuits.
AIMA could have done nothing this year and next year we would have another 108k non-payment cases. The best way of reducing backlog is to do nothing so that everybody gives up and moves to other countries 
that looks amazingly promising! That means they’d take care of the remaining 200k pending cases in 2 months! 
I’m not actually sure what he’s saying here… could be the PT>EN translation, or could be weasel words:
- …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.
Bolding is mine - does that mean AIMA’s only progressed 113k applications 1 or 2 steps further, with many more steps to go? 
Probably refers to non-ARI immigrants who are already in the country.
They are processing hundreds of thousands yet ARI approvals have come to a halt without lawsuits. Maybe someone ought to remind them that this GV program EXISTS!
Yah even renewals, how incompetent can one be?
I don’t think they’re processing hundreds of thousands. They had hundreds of thousands of applicants decide not to continue with their applications, therefore they’ve been removed from the backlog.
ARI represents a tiny % of the applicants. I’d be interested to see how many ARI applicants are approved as a % of the total approvals, versus the % of the total applicants. That would be an indicator on whether ARIs have been de-priroritzed.
Lack of movement without lawsuits kinda already proves that…
It’s only lack of movement on pre-approvals though. There is slow but steady movement from biometrics to final approval, although pace differs between offices. Maybe a decision was actively taken to clear the backlog of applications mid-process first, before adding more in to the funnel?
You think that they have a plan!
I would agree. Looks like all effort is being put into final approvals for the moment (unless there’s a lawsuit, in which case biometrics appointments are being issued).
Not really. We are still waiting for almost two years since the biometrics, and we even won the lawsuit to expedite the final approval since we already live in Portugal. The system is just horribly backed up and inefficient down to its core.