No she couldnt. I think she is not well connected. I m out of this program. Selling and exiting.
Seems now our fears were confirmed, that the timing of the wave of appointments was indeed disingenuous, to try to fleece as many people as possible of their money before they realised the rug pull was happening.
Yes, this is the feeling of many… one last hurrah to scalp gullible foreign investors of fees before finalizing the rug pull or the breaking of their promise.
Didn’t the minister almost admit this in his testimony where he bragged that ARI applicants had been delayed, but now they were going to cash in with all the new biometrics? Which, of course, applicants now pay for up front and then wait ?? months/years to get their card, unlike the old way where they approved you before you paid. It’s almost absurd levels of scam, and yet the applications roll in, so why change?
Do we know if this was ever verified?
I spent quite a lot of money and time traveling to Porto for my biometrics appointment on March 31. Unfortunately there was a nationwide computer system failure for AIMA and no one was able to be processed (on the following day as well and may actually persist for all I knoe). We were all sent home (in my case back to the US) and are waiting for AIMA to contact us with a future appointment time and date. No one kept us updated while waiting , nor did anyone explain what happened. So it goes…