Minister of the Presidency (António Leitão Amaro) held a press conference yesterday to mark one year of the migration plan (I’ve posted more on that here).
w.r.t. renewals…
More than 374,587 immigrants have expired residence permits. Since last summer, the online renewal system has stopped working. The number was revealed this afternoon by the Government, in an assessment of the Migration Action Plan. Most of these people are Brazilians who have lived in the country for years.
These pending issues will be resolved by the Mission Structure. However, in response to DN Brasil, Minister António Leitão Amaro did not provide a date for the start of the renewal service. This is because the Government is in a transitional phase. Even if the same coalition takes over, the decisions will be made after the inauguration.
…Regarding the extension of the decree-law that makes the documents valid, Leitão Amaro also did not want to answer whether it will be extended or not, only. “We have ideas about that”, he summarized, saying that the new features will be presented at some point in June.
In the last renewal, in June last year, the implementation took place around 48 hours before the end of the previous decree-law.
https://dnbrasil.dn.pt/mais-de-374-mil-imigrantes-estão-com-título-de-residência-vencido