As spotted first in the renewals thread.
- Good news: AIMA’s figured out they’re nowhere near ‘done’ with their backlog, despite time running out on their 1-year mission structure next month
- Bad news: GVs still at the back of the queue, behind a couple hundred thousand CPLP processes now
[note: not yet formalised!]
Government decides to maintain AIMA mission structure until December 31 to speed up the regularization of immigrants, despite reducing the team involved by 50%.In the first stage, the mission structure prioritized the resolution of the 440 [thousand] pending requests for residence permits in Portugal linked to the now-defunct expression of interest. At this time, priority is being given to the 220,000 citizens of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), whose residence permits were issued on A4 sheets of paper, without the security rules required by the European Union, and are being exchanged for plastic cards, valid for two years.