If you’re writing a letter, be sure to include this fellow:
Publico - April 5, 2024
Portugal no longer has a State Secretariat for Migration. Looking at the structure of the new Government, the word “migrations” does not appear associated with any State secretariat. The portfolio is directly dependent on the new Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro.
- His official bio is here (Harvard Law graduate, so at least has some sense of the world outside Portugal).
- Official contact form is here (select “Ministro da Presidência”), but perhaps an old-fashioned letter in the post would be useful as well.
As I noted in the “AIMA takes over SEF” thread, his Ministry made comment on last week’s protest at AIMA (“promote a rigorous assessment of the extinction of SEF,” etc.).
A few other points you may want to leverage in your letters:
- “The minister also said that he is monitoring the situation, in contact with various authorities.”
- The aim, according to the government, is to adopt the principle that Portugal “is a country with doors open to immigration, but not wide open, materialized in quantitative objectives for immigration, weighing up the dimension of security, prioritizing in terms of qualifications and avoiding exploitation by illegal and criminal networks.”
- …the agency will have to adapt to ensure that it has the necessary means and skills to perform these functions of attracting and retaining national talent, the program reads, without specifying whether this paragraph refers to the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum, created in October 2023.
- (see article below for more…)