Just to share the main points I expressed, so that we don’t wander off course too much if any of you guys decide to make yourselves heard.
I was coming from an understanding that there would be no way to block amendments to the law in general as the latest elections showed a particular trend, and the ruling parties are hell bent on pressing on with ‘something’.
So, I boiled the argument down to three key things, demanding the following for all existing ARI holders and applicants :
- grandfathering of the 5 years term to citizenship;
- grandfathering of ‘Contagem do tempo’ as counted from the date of initial application;
- continuation of the right to family reunification and future renewals of the same.