Convenient report release timing if you’re trying to create a freak-out about ‘foreigners’ and get a much more restrictive Nationality Law passed 
The number of foreign citizens residing in Portugal has quadrupled in seven years, with around 1.5 million registered at the end of 2024, according to data from the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA).
You don’t say?
The number of residence permits granted in 2024: 218,332 in total, with the caveat that “the date of granting may be very different from the date of the citizen’s entry into national territory.” In other words, many of these immigrants who obtained the document last year had entered the country years earlier and faced a long wait for their residence permit.