I’ve written about this before… seems my suspicion has been confirmed.
AIMA tossing us a Biometrics appointment is being used by the courts as reason enough to dismiss our cases. But having my Bios last year (over 6 months ago now) hasn’t got me what I sued for, which was final approval and a residency card 
“As long as AIMA [Agency for Migration, Integration and Asylum] can […] inform the court that ‘we have [hypothetically] scheduled 12,000 interviews, please dismiss the case’, and we currently lack a clear count of how many cases remain pending from people who need a response,” lamented the judge secretary of the Superior Council of Administrative and Tax Courts (CSTAF) at a meeting with journalists in Lisbon.