Is it Lawsuit time? (Processing times)

…and in more AIMA lawsuit news… the last bullet is infuriating :angry:

  • The Portuguese justice system has already imposed 17,000 scheduling of meetings with immigrants on the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA). Pedro Portugal Gaspar told Lusa in an interview that AIMA had to create an internal task force to respond to these notifications, filed by lawyers specializing in migration.
  • …“it was a merely instrumental condemnation” to speed up agenda issues and today “there are more than 17 thousand sentences always condemning AIMA and there is nothing to say, naturally”, because the organization “did not comply with the agenda within 90 days”.
  • Currently, AIMA carries out a thousand consultations per day and the mission structure carries out around 800, and it is estimated that, soon, there could be 2,000 consultations per day , in the combination of the two
  • “We are now going to enter this month of October with a great acceleration in relation to family reunification processes”… This type of process has not been transferred to the mission structure that is resolving pending processes and is “an area in which we will move forward”, with priority over processes relating to changes of residence for investment.
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